Entries by Mikael Creson

or as it's written "jag har den". I had it before it was launched but wasn't allowed to show it for anyone. I don't know how the big news papers got theirs 10 days before launch and why they were allowed to write articles about iPhone the day before launch but one thing I do know is the Newspapers are newspapers and they write a lot of crap. Yepp, that's right, this is my blog and I am entitled to write whatever I want I don't need to be objective like the news papers! Not that they are since they write exactly what they want. But enough about shitty newspapers. I got the iPhone and lots of more phones (like the HTC Touch Diamond which I had 2 weeks before launch, and yes I got a sharp Diamond too) I work at a telecom company with cell phones and here is my personal feedback/comments/thoughts about the Apple iPhone 3G.

PROS

·         Lovely interface which is very logic and easy to understand and use

·         Smooth feeling

·         Good design

·         Very good Touch Keyboard (HTC Touch Cruise or Diamond can’t be compared to it)

·         Lots of email settings like POP3/IMAP, gMail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL and Microsoft Exchange

·         Exchange synchronization includes subfolders, contacts (and contact photos), calendar, GAL etc

·         Built in VPN (Cisco etc)

·         Safari works very well! It’s like surfing on a PC! Best mobile browser I ever used

·         Lots of cool applications in “App store”.

·         HSPDA 3.6 mps

·         You can choose between many languages as phone language (Windows Mobile can only handle one)

·         iTunes, very easy (and not the least) legal to get songs to your iPhone

·         3.5-mm stereo connector!

·         Very good music quality

·         8 or 16 GIG (HTC Touch Diamond only got 4 gig)

·         Lots of accessories for your stereo, car etc

·         WLAN (Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g)

·         Nice SMS conversation program (just a little - you don’t got smiley icons)

·         iPhone SDK – it’s very easy to create and test Iphone applications

CONS

·         No multitasking except from playing music

·         GPS geo tagging is not so good, I took a photo of the Telia Store at Kungsportsavenyn, Gothenburg, Sweden, but the geo tagging says the location is in the middle of the ocean far away

·         MMS doesn’t work

·         You can’t change APN or add another APN which is something I really miss.

·         No Proxy support over the APN (would be better for operators if they can be used with a proxy)

·         No radio (HTC radio is almost useless but Sony Ericsson and Nokia has ok radioes)

·         No video call

·         You can’t use your iPhone as a 3G modem

·         No GPS voice guide as Apple doesn’t allow it

·         No support for JAVA applications

·         You need to hold down A or O to get to ÅÄÖ (Swedish characters)

·         Only Bluetooth mono headset support (no support for other Bluetooth connections)

·         You can’t edit Microsoft Office documents

·         You can’t put in a spare or new battery yourself easy.

·         You can't easy change ringtone or SMS sound to your own (for example a mp3 song). You need to buy those with iTunes.

·         Copy and paste dosn't work (maybe with some application but not as default)

What I have noticed is that many people have complained about lots of things but mainly three things.

1                The camera is only 2 megapixels

This is true, but, they are good two megapixels! Would you rather have 5 bad megapixels? Check out my comparison of some cell phones I have I have. (note, all photos are taken fast without thinking of light etc, this to show the quality as people normally take fast photos with their phones). http://photos.creson.com/micke/CellPhones

2                No MMS in the phone

Correct, but email works even better. I can understand that you would like the function but I don’t see it as a problem. If someone sends you an MMS you will get a notification that you have an MMS to pick up. (in Sweden it’s http://www.telia.se/visaMMS).

3                The price, lots of people says it’s very expensive in some countries. Well, the price is little like the price Nokia N95 had from the start. It’s not cheap but then again, it’s an iPhone. To be honest, Apple sold 1 million iPhones in 3 days so the price can’t be that wrong? Or do we have 1 million suckers in the world? Might be so, but those so called suckers have an iPhone. I think the discussion is stupid. If you want one, you buy one. If you want one and can’t afford one, don’t buy it. Buy a phone that is something in your price range. It’s important to understand what YOU want and what you can afford. Maybe the price is high right now but then again, 1 million iPhones sold in just 3 days! If Apple can deliver more iPhones to the operators the operators might take the price down if they don’t sell so good in a few weeks or months. Who knows? If you want to wait and see, wait and see. I bought Panasonic 42” plasma. After one year a better model cost half the price. This is life! Stop complaining!

Do I still want it?
YES, indeed, I love the phone! Mostly because the interface works so well. It’s absolutely lovely to press on the touch screen and also because of App store which provides you with good applications like myspace and facebook applications. I have used both Symbian, Java phones, Windows Mobile from smartphone and pocket pc to 6.1 and I haven’t seen so simple and easy programs for them. So today I think Apple iPhone 3G is a really cool phone! I hope Windows Mobile 7 will take up the competition and integrate Zune (yes I got a Microsoft Zune 30 gigs too which looks really good).