10 Things to Love About the Iphone
Top 10 things to love about the iPhone
I took delivery of my iPhone in early September, the beginning of a month trying to personally he saw me outside the office very long term and only in touch with the world through my phone. It was a baptism of fire for me and the device.
You've seen the ads, play with him in phone shops, looked over his shoulder fellow travelers ", taken from his friend … great is not it? Or is it?
This article addresses some of the best things about the device that have captivated me completely. Or even just a little. And for balance I have a karmic celestial companion article on some of the things that drive me crazy for. There is enough material for two articles, I promise!
So here we go, in reverse order, the 10 things you should like the iPhone!
10. Voicemail organization
One of the nice features of the device is the way it organizes your voicemail for you. No more calling the voicemail number, listen to all messages in your mailbox in order of arrival to get to which you want to hear. There are, in a list with actual names instead of numbers when the number is in your contacts list. You can go directly the message you want and avoid junk calls.
You are not limited to the terms of saved messages that your phone provider requires – will remain on the device, as long as you need them. It even got deleted file recovery, with deleted messages remain in your trash until you commit the delete.
9. SMS text organization
If you like the way the iPhone manage your voice messages, you'll love the organization further SMS. SMS messages are organized by third party name before, but even better when the details of third parties to the messages themselves are displayed, in order, as a series of appointments as a dialogue Messaging instantaneous, so you can see the entire conversation. So good, so obvious, why has not done before?
8. Screen Keyboard
One of the things draws attention to the iPhone is the lack of any keyboard or stylus. In fact, it is almost completely devoid of buttons, which is one of the criticisms that would directing the iPhone.
The lack of a keyboard was one of the reasons for delaying the transition to the iPhone in the first place. I work outside the office, probably 60% time and my PDA is often my only link to my business while I'm out of the office. Sending email through a T9 keyboard is not ideal, and most soft keyboards I've seen to date has been frustratingly slow. I had a couple of PDAs with sliding keyboard and these may be satisfactory, but they also the unit heavier, thicker and less attractive as a telephone handset.
The iPhone soft keyboard is surprisingly good. I've seen some demos YouTube before I ordered the iPhone still had lingering doubts about how realistic. I need not have worried, though: It really is so good as the demos suggest. The auto correction works by comparing what he writes with the keys of the key you strike, so if you hit a "h" rather than a "g" will pick up and correct their error.
It's not perfect, however. I have trouble consistently reaching the space bar and seem to hit the letter "b" instead. The correction takes keystrokes defective, but not necessarily correct a misspelled if you put too many or too few letters in the word. You also need to be around 60-70% accuracy with keystrokes or algorithm gives up. Rejection of a proposal for self-correction requires you to leave the "tiny x" at the end of the suggestion, rather than a specific key or backspace, as in most Windows applications, and this can be really difficult.
But overall the keyboard works well and I have to admit, is more useful than the keyboards of most PDAs with Windows Mobile I've had. I'm still not sure if I prefer handwriting recognition with a stylus, but I can live with it.
7. iPod in a phone
Although not the intuitive touch interface of the original and best iPod, iPhone, as the iTouch, it makes up with its full-screen iPod interface that gives you faster and easier access Direct media stored on the device. I prefer the iPod wheel, but I admit that is one of the 6 and half a dozen of the other.
Although memory of 8 GB or 16 GB iPhone is shared between the functions of the iPod and other storage-dependent applications, yet can store up to 3,000 songs or so of my collection entire CD. I can also play movies, and the screen is more than enough to do it, but a typical movie takes up to 2GB of storage so of course I have to "budget" for it.
In short, the iPhone serves me as well as a media player, especially with my BMW has the iPod interface directly integrated into the iDrive system, so I can access my music collection through the car's steering wheel controls and navigation screen.
6. Motion sensors and landscape mode (to a point)
The iPhone is the tops of sensors. Proximity sensors detect you're using it as a phone. Sensors of light to adjust brightness. Motion detectors know you're waving the thing around (used to great effect in "Lightsaber Unleashed" – a demonstration game free on iTunes.)
Motion detectors are used to greater effect in Safari and the document to detect the tilt of the screen to view in landscape mode. Document Lace side too readable on the screen? Just rotate the device and change the screen orientation. Cute!
The only problem is that implementation feature appears to be dependent on the application and is not consistent across all deployed applications on the device. Therefore reading and writing Mail does not benefit from the property, for example, while email attachments (see below) do.
5. Full web browser on a phone
I am not Safari a big fan in general, prefer Firefox on Mac and IE on the PC. That said, the implementation of Safari on the iPhone is undoubtedly the best mobile browser I've seen to date.
It supports CSS and Javascript and will support Silverlight in the future, but is not compatible with Flash today. To rotate the screen to landscape mode in general can read most of the websites on the screen of the iPhone, by placing the "pinch" metaphor (two fingers on the screen together and move apart) on or out to allow small text or fine detail to be seen. Touch-screen controls, such as text boxes and menus in a zoom control so it is easy to complete forms based on the browser. The entire browsing experience is smooth, intuitive and attractive.
4. Native support for PDF and Office document formats
As a dyed "in the wool" Microsoft user, this function has captivated me more than almost anything else on the device.
IPhone makes all "standard" Office formats (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) as standard, without any plug-ins. And not just Office 2003 – the extensible formats Office 2007 are supported too! The iPhone is compatible with the rotation to view documents in landscape format, with a bit of zoom.
Unfortunately you can not edit Office documents as standard, although a number of publishers plan to offer publishers of documents and spreadsheets in the future. However 80% of work settings I can find the remote device suits me perfectly.
3. WiFi and 3G cells
The original iPhone awakened appetite for mobile computing, but soon European disappointed because of their lack of support for 3G. That of course is a thing of the past with the Mark II device.
I've been more impressed by the capabilities of WiFi device, however. Although the battery consumption is less than ideal Wi-Fi on, the WiFi stack performs very well, especially in large office environments and public you move in and out of range or between access points, sometimes using different protocols, on a consistent basis. It supports multiple security protocols based on certificates including WPA-2 TKIP and can interact with Microsoft security implementations focusing on business.
Set the device to join new networks automatically and, of course, once you have established access to a network that will reconnect automatically the next time you're within range. It works very very well – so well, frankly, can afford to forget everything. What is the way it should be, frankly.
2. Ease of adding applications
IPhone base provides basic email, calendar and contacts management with the Safari web browser, camera and iPod application. It also has excellent maps and aGPS Google, which is surprisingly good, although the consumption of the battery with the ignition location services makes the device almost unusable in my opinion. In other words, the iPhone offers a fairly reasonable set of basic applications for mobile productivity.
So what if you need more? The answer is iTunes AppStore, an online service accessible from the iPhone that lets you search and download applications that are loaded into your iTunes account. So far I have downloaded over all the sample applications and without utility ware, which is enough to get an idea of what is out there and appreciate the simple installation and upgrade process. I only bought one application so far – iBlogger, a generic blogger to connect to my CMS and blog. The process is simple and transparent, from the perspective of user, and is exactly what the user needs.
The idea of extensibility is good. This is where the intersection of computing and PDA phone in the world Mobile has actually benefited consumers. But for the consumer to fully benefit must be the right choice.
To date, Apple has had successful in attracting software publishers for the game with a development kit and simple powerful distribution model. I appreciate the concern that some publishers have on the domain that Apple maintained through the distribution channel, not as the Sony PlayStation, and time will tell if the Apple developer engagement model continues attracting the best developers.
At this point what the iPhone lacks a number of task management tool that interacts with Microsoft Exchange and most advanced set of editing tools that offer basic features like cut and paste (yes, iPhone will not let you cut and paste text while editing). Do not know if any such applications exist in the AppStore and I have not looked at yet, because frankly, I would expect that they are provided by Apple as the standard and hope that a future firmware update will provide them.
If my impatience gets the better of me I'm going to search the AppStore and I will probably find what I'm looking for.
1. Great design (so far)
Apple has done a phenomenal job with the iPhone. It's great! My iPhone is probably the most elegant and iconic objects I had. So, not only the most elegant phone, or PDA, or mobile computer – as an exercise of physical design is excellent.
The glossy surface is difficult to keep clean and within minutes is covered with fingerprints, but I think that cleaning with a damp cloth is hardly enough to restore its splendor.
The difficulties to keep clean hand, it is fairly robust and usable every day. I have fallen a few times on hard surfaces without apparent ill effects and is very solid in your hands. I do not bother with a case and simply slip into my jeans pocket (front or back) and usually forget it's there.
The user interface is remarkable – mostly. The pinch zoom and fast scrolling list are excellent. Add, delete, and move the application icons on the main screen is intuitive and can be mastered in minutes.
But the good parts of the user interface are so good that hooks into the design – the inability to close the big trees of directories in your mail folders, the absence of a file manager, the lack of a cut and paste function – even more starkly highlight and emphasize the genesis of the device.
The point is that the iPhone is the product of a prolific brilliant yet highly introspective group of engineers. Unlimited design is all sense of reality or practicality, particularly in the corporate context. In most respects, and I mean probably 80% of GDP in this case, the result is wonderful. 80% is so good I can forgive Apple almost 20% of features absolutely essential is missing. For now!
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