Yes, it is true. To the surprise of absolutely no-one I have purchased The King of Phones, The Son of Jobs, the (angels singing) iPhone. The price drop was too much. Two months, $200 how could I resist. I could sell my old phone, sell my old ipod on eBay (oh eBay, what would I do without you and your legions of willing buyers!) and I’m pretty close to the cost.
It looks very cool on TV, I wanted it, but not that bad (meaning as long as I bit my tongue hard enough I could resist flying out the door to buy it.) Then I saw one in person. Oh my. Oh my. Geez… I’m a sucker for gadgets and this was such a gadget. You may have read complaints about it, people finding one thing or another that wasn’t quite right, and they’re true. It is definitely a flawed device. But only in context of what might have been.
It is, without question, the best phone I have ever seen. Solid, curvy, smooth, a slick tech device that is booth oooo and ahhhhh worthy. Ooooo and ahhhhh. It is smaller than I expected, but solid for it’s size. The interface is fast and flashy. Lots of zooming and sliding that is fancier than any portable device I’ve ever seen.
A few complaints
Mind you this is in context of the iphone only, things that could be improved. It is still better than any other phone, it just sets its own standard way high.
First, the headphone jack. You need an adapter to use regular headphones. It’s recessed a bit in the top and, while the jack itself is normal, most headphones don’t fit into the little hole it’s placed in. I don’t get it either.
Second, while it feels awesome, it’s slippery, the brushed aluminum is not grippy at all. It feels like you’re always about to drop it. I don’t like that feeling. Easy enough to fix, and you’ll want to anyway to protect the surface from painful scratches. Best Skins Ever
It doesn’t support WPA Enterprise. Which is what you ask? Well, it’s a wireless standard that is used in environments where lots of users have access and giving everyone a username and password makes sense. Like, say, a university campus. Say, the University of Utah campus. Which means I can’t log into the regular wifi network at school. Easy enough to fix with a firmware update so get to it Apple!
It’s only on AT&T… ok that’s not a big problem, just hack it! (Already done, hello T-Mobile, thank you geek community.)
You can’t install third party programs. Oh, but you can, see ‘hack’ link in previous paragraph.
It is somewhat harder to type on the screen than with a physical keyboard. It’s not that bad, just remember that it registers when your finger leaves the screen so you can slide your finger to get to the letter. Also it has some sort of delay in registering so if you accidentally slip your finger off the letter it still types the right letter. Plus it predicts fairly well what you meant even if you completely mistype the letters.