Comments on: To iPhone, or Not to iPhone

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:31:01 +0000

@ Aaron – lol, you just want to make $5 off me and Spanning Sync

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:50:36 +0000

You know what I’m going to tell you.

I wholly agree with Russ. I’m marking up PDFs with my freaking phone. I’m more available on Facebook than ever before. I’m posting a lot more pictures to my family site taken with the iPHone because of the apps. It’s not the “phone” — it’s the apps. Period. I didn’t understand why I’d need Evernote — until I could take snapshots of documents and upload them from the phone and have Evernote perform its OCR magic. I’m still blown away by the magic of it all.

Quit the bitchin’ and jump on board. I have a workaround for your Google Calendars and it’s not like the world needs to know of your calendar updates AS you make them.

I’m synching tasks with the cloud with ToDo and RTM.

It’s just freaking magical, and with the iPhone Admin skin, you can admin this very blog with your iPHone — fully featured. You could do it anyway because it has a real browser, but now it can even be optimized.

Do it. Then with Twinkle, you can not only know what my sandwich is like — you’ll know where I’m tweeting about it, too.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:34:07 +0000

Went to the AT&T store today to play with one. I’m still stuck on the keyboard. Since I use a blackberry at work and I have one for my startup, I’m really used to the qwerty, tactile keys…I know most people get used to the on screen touch, but I wonder how challenging it will be for me to, 1, go back and forth between an iphone and my work BB, and 2, to be anywhere near as fast on it as I am on the BB.

Thanks for the feedback Russ…much appreciated.

By: Russ

Russ — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:28:51 +0000

I’ve had an iPhone for almost a year and upgraded to 3G a couple of weeks ago. I’ve also had a blackberry. There is no comparison. Apple has managed to come as close to putting a laptop in your pocket as is technically possible. Bulleted feature lists are one thing but differintiates the iPhone (and all Apple products) is the “how”. The iPhone is so well done, it’s “features” just fall out in your hand. You’ll actually use everthing it has to offer without having to learn how to do it.

This “phone” strikes me more as a computer that also makes phone calls. The integration of contacts, calendar, email, instant messaging, SMS, voice calls and web browsing is amazing. As a small example, I got your Twitter message through a Twitter app on my phone, touched the link in the message, read your post and am now writting this all on my iPhone.

I haven’t experienced any of the cons you listed myself but I’m enjoying the hell out of the pro’s every day. If you decide to get one, I think you’ll find it’s not a better smart phone but a whole new class of device closer to a full blown computer than anything else.