IPHONE IPHONE IPHONE

[nonelvis]

I took advantage of the tax holiday in Massachusetts this weekend and bought myself a shiny, happy little iPhone. (Its official name for iTunes syncing purposes is, in fact, Happy Little iPhone, much as the iPod is Happy Little iPod.)

It is so unbelievably cute I want to lick it. It is so beautifully designed and perfectly intuitive that I want to cry. All user interfaces should be this intelligent. I cannot believe I suffered through Symbian for a year and thought it was mostly fine, and suffered through whatever the hell Ericsson was using and thought that wasn't so bad either. Both of those are like Windows 3.1 compared to the iPhone. Even the flat screen doesn't bother me, and that was the one thing I was worried about, because I like tactile feedback to confirm I've pressed a key; the iPhone provides more than enough confirmation feedback visually.

I've set it up to talk to my Yahoo! Mail account and one of my GMail accounts (I'm still not using Apple Mail, or it would work there, too); it's connected to the home wireless network; I've transferred over a wallpaper; and most important, I have my custom ringtone back, thanks to a nice little piece of conversion freeware. Sure, it's only available in French ... but hey, I speak French, so no problem there.

(Now that I've said all this, watch, I'll have one of the 2-3% of iPhones that appear to have defective chips affecting 3G access. But for now, I'm in love.)

Comments

[nonelvis]

I really, really thought I'd want buttons, but the iPhone UI makes it so obvious when you've clicked something that it hasn't been a problem so far. The keyboard alone has been a joy to use.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

I've found that I use the touchscreen on my Tilt for virtually everything but the one time when I do miss buttons is when I'm dialing a phone number. I can pop out the keyboard and use it ... but it's a little awkward for dialing. Anyway, it's not a big deal, and I love the device overall.

I think I'd be interested in an iPhone if the storage capacity was bigger -- I would love to have ONE device. I did merge my PDA and phone with the Tilt, but I still have the separate iPod (30 gig).

[nonelvis]

A larger iPhone would be nice. I have a 40Gb iPod, and though it's not full, I could clearly use more than the 16Gb the iPhone comes with.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

There's always something, isn't there? :)