When you watch those iPhone ads or watch the guided tour for the iPhone, you think, “Oh man wouldn’t it be sweet to have one of those?” Well I’m happy to say its sweet to have one of those. But is the iPhone really a small computer? Well in some ways it is very much like a computer, you got email, the web, weather, stocks, youtube, the iTunes wi-fi store, google maps, and calendars. But in ways its not. Like you don’t have flash player on the internet. You say what?! No flash player?! Ok so maybe you don’t say that, but flash player does a lot of stuff, you know like cool websites are all done by flash, it plays movies (different players), it just does some stuff thats really cool. Like if you go to youtube.com and try to play a movie, it ain’t gonna happen because that is run by flash. But they do have youtube on the phone as one of the widgets, so it doesn’t really matter for that.
Another feature is it only has 8 gigs. Like dude apple you’re making 160 gb ipods, and the iphone only has 8?! I know you have to have room for other things but seriously it could use some more space.
Another feature is you can’t download anything from the internet or mail, which kinda stinks but oh swell. You can only use the apple headphones for calls and personally i don’t like the apple headphones for calling people. Not that I call that many people anyways, but that is besides the point.
Another feature is that safari is the only widget where the keyboard goes sideways. I mean some people have big thumbs, they need more space for their fingers.
Another feature is you can’t copy and paste, oh well, too bad, cut the tears all you people who copy and paste. It’s not that big a deal, but it’d be kinda nice, I guess.
The camera ain’t no super duper camera it’s just a 2 megapixel camera and it doesn’t do any zoom at all but oh well, I have a regular camera, I don’t need the iPhone’s.
Now on to the good stuff. Internet on the iPhone is about as good as you get on a mobile device. Like wow dude! Just touch the link you want to go to, just flick around the page with your finger I mean it is really cool. But not only that but wherever you have ATT service there is something called the EDGE which is a little bit faster than dial up, so you dont have to be in a wi-fi area to have internet, but when you are and you connect to the wi-fi its just like hi speed internet man its so cool. You can also send links in mail from safari. And you can watch quicktime movies on the internet.
Mail is cool, you can have several email accounts and it sorts it out for you, it doesn’t just lump all the accounts into one. You can send pics from pictures you’ve taken on the iPhone.
I like youtube, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.
You cannot have unlimited weather, in fact my dad filled all his weather up. But I mean who besides my dad is going to want to know the weather in so many places that you fill it up. But weather is kinda cool, if you like weather.
I love the iPod part of the iPhone, the wide screen for movies, cover flow for music. It’s just cool dude. And I think the sound on the iPhone is better quality.
Calendar is cool, you can add events in the iPhone and it will sync with iCal. And if you change something on the iPhones calendar it will ask you if you want to change it on the computer when you sync it.
Google maps is nice. I guess. I’m not really going to use it that much until I learn to drive. But you can just hit the little plus sign on the search field and it will go to your contacts which is really nice.
Ringtones from iTunes are awesome, not only do you get the whole song, but you get to pick which part of the song you want for the ringtone, for something like $2:17 when its all said and done.
Some things I’d like to see added to the iPhone: A downloads folder so you can download stuff to your iPhone from the web or email. More space. I’d like more programs to be able to turn sideways. And that you can make ringtones from any song, not just ones you buy from iTunes.
Well that’s my opinion on the whole thing, so leave some comments, tell what you think about the iPhone.
