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TechieSooner
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Alright, I've had it 3 weeks now, here's my review of the iPhone 3GS 32GB.
Please note, this is from a PERSONAL vantage point. The iPhone still cannot hold a candle to the capabilities of the Blackberry in a business environment (Which add up to more than just Exchange support).
In a basic sense, it's an OK device. I knew it would be, I've always said the iPhones are pretty good for personal use. Wether it's the best device on the market (*cough*NexusOne*cough*) is questionable, though. Being ATT and Sprint are the only two providers here that have 3G, my option was pretty much just the iPhone.
The pros are obvious. The browser. The Facebook app is stupidly easy to use (uploading videos or photos is a ton easier than doing it from any other mobile device). Some apps are quite nice (Words with Friends is actually a great game to play with folks you usually wouldn't just sit down and play otherwise). Syncing Facebook profile pictures with your phone is awesome. The stocks app and weather are good utilities.
MMS works great, very easy to take and send photos and videos.
HTML emails, simply the best on any phone I've used.
Now for the cons. It's not a "Jesus Phone" like soooo many think it is.
Sent text messages... In my "INBOX" (IE, the INCOMING message box), I don't want to see the freaking messages I sent OUT. That's just asinine. Showing them to me when I pull a conversation up is fine, but I don't want them in my Inbox.
No multitasking. I know why Apple does this, it's because too many idiots leave a hundred apps running and would wonder why their phone runs slow. But for those of us that know better, it'd be nice to be able to not have to re-start a game just because I want to answer a text.
Lack of profiles. Emails, Texts... Those can wait until morning. But I still want to get phone calls at night. It's either an "all-on" or "all-vibrate" thing, unless you go through and change everything in the settings before you go to bed.
It doesn't "just work". I upgraded my phone OS just one point level (1.3.2 to 1.3.3 or something like that, I don't remember the versioning) and none of my apps worked afterwords, even after shutting it off and on. The Apple KB said I had to reinstall them all. Sorry, but that's just crappy programming by Apple.
Customizable Home Screen. Seriously? WHY does Apple still refuse to let you customize this? At least a picture or something, sheesh. Or ideally for me, I want my "5 Big Icons" that I use frequently, maybe the temperature on the home screen, and time... And I want to be able to see said information when the device is locked (so I don't have to unlock it just to see the temp or something).
And then obviously the mandatory battery-bash. Yea, BT and Wifi are both off, and disabling 3G kindof defeats the purpose of even having a 3G capable data phone. When a phone cannot last me all day, that sucks. The only time it lasts me all day is when I'm generally too busy to even look at it.
Please note, this is from a PERSONAL vantage point. The iPhone still cannot hold a candle to the capabilities of the Blackberry in a business environment (Which add up to more than just Exchange support).
In a basic sense, it's an OK device. I knew it would be, I've always said the iPhones are pretty good for personal use. Wether it's the best device on the market (*cough*NexusOne*cough*) is questionable, though. Being ATT and Sprint are the only two providers here that have 3G, my option was pretty much just the iPhone.
The pros are obvious. The browser. The Facebook app is stupidly easy to use (uploading videos or photos is a ton easier than doing it from any other mobile device). Some apps are quite nice (Words with Friends is actually a great game to play with folks you usually wouldn't just sit down and play otherwise). Syncing Facebook profile pictures with your phone is awesome. The stocks app and weather are good utilities.
MMS works great, very easy to take and send photos and videos.
HTML emails, simply the best on any phone I've used.
Now for the cons. It's not a "Jesus Phone" like soooo many think it is.
Sent text messages... In my "INBOX" (IE, the INCOMING message box), I don't want to see the freaking messages I sent OUT. That's just asinine. Showing them to me when I pull a conversation up is fine, but I don't want them in my Inbox.
No multitasking. I know why Apple does this, it's because too many idiots leave a hundred apps running and would wonder why their phone runs slow. But for those of us that know better, it'd be nice to be able to not have to re-start a game just because I want to answer a text.
Lack of profiles. Emails, Texts... Those can wait until morning. But I still want to get phone calls at night. It's either an "all-on" or "all-vibrate" thing, unless you go through and change everything in the settings before you go to bed.
It doesn't "just work". I upgraded my phone OS just one point level (1.3.2 to 1.3.3 or something like that, I don't remember the versioning) and none of my apps worked afterwords, even after shutting it off and on. The Apple KB said I had to reinstall them all. Sorry, but that's just crappy programming by Apple.
Customizable Home Screen. Seriously? WHY does Apple still refuse to let you customize this? At least a picture or something, sheesh. Or ideally for me, I want my "5 Big Icons" that I use frequently, maybe the temperature on the home screen, and time... And I want to be able to see said information when the device is locked (so I don't have to unlock it just to see the temp or something).
And then obviously the mandatory battery-bash. Yea, BT and Wifi are both off, and disabling 3G kindof defeats the purpose of even having a 3G capable data phone. When a phone cannot last me all day, that sucks. The only time it lasts me all day is when I'm generally too busy to even look at it.
