The Three Word iPhone Review – It Fuckin’ Rocks!
The iPhone is gadget heaven. It really does restore your sense of childlike wonder. I’ve had a blast all weekend running my greasy finger over its glassy surface.
It’s a Crackberry for the masses. Finally, mobile email, messaging and web browsing is fun and easy — how did it take so long?
I’ve had a Treo and cell phone email for years, but never, ever used them — they’re a mess. Now I’m an iPhone text addict — a 41-year-old acting like a teenager.
I bought one on Friday and have been out around town with my kids all weekend. The little angels monopolized it, surfing the web and watching YouTube. They figured it out immediately. I showed them one thing — how to use your fingers to shrink and zoom — that was it. I took some calls, surfed the web and sent some email.
I found it’s not all roses — there’s serious issues using it for work — but in general, we’re true believers.
The Good and The Bad after the jump. Plus camera phone samples.
iPhone picture samples — one third their original size.
The Good:
1. The Web, in all its glory. Using Wi-Fi, the Web is a dream. You flit from site to site like a butterfly. A greasy finger is the most natural way to scroll around pages and zoom in — it’s easier than using the mouse on a desktop machine.
2. Corrective text works great. You botch letters in almost every word you type, but if you get three out of seven letters in the correct sequence, it guesses the word you want. I’ve been whizzing through email, no problem. One thing in my favor: I’ve no Crackberry muscle memories to unlearn.
3. Google Maps: fast, fun and traffic updates for free.
4. The camera – It’s a lot better than any other camera phone I’ve had. See samples above (I had to seriously downgrade the files to upload them to WordPress).
5. Entertainment — The screen is spectacular. It’s as good as watching high-def on a HDTV. Even the white earbuds sound pretty good.
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6. Syncing is painless. It slurped over all the contacts, calendars, music and videos. Not a glitch. It’s so painless, you take it for granted. But having used PlaysForShit devices, easy sync is a blessing from above.
The Bad:
1. No cut and paste. No document editing. No webpage saving. The iPhone’s not much good for blogging.
2. AT&T’s EDGE network stinks. It’s dead slow.
3. No universal landscape keyboard. The keybaord can be rotated into landscape mode only in Safari. Seems natural to have a large landscape keyboard in email and notes also.
4. A host of missing features: No search for contacts, no MMS picture messaging, no cut and paste, no Flash or Java in Safari, no Bluetooth file transfer, can’t be used a PC modem, no camera zoom, no video recording.
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