I’ve owned the famed apple iPhone for about 3 weeks now. In that time I have grown to both love and hate aspects of the iPhone.
I understand that this is a first generation phone with the 1.0 software running on it. Despite knowing this, I dove right in and bought it.
I’ve had enough time with the phone to fully explore it.
below are the biggest problems with the iPone that I have
- ring tone is too quiet even when on full volume
- vibrate mode is too discrete, i want to to shake longer
- text message notifications are to quite
- no notification of missed text messages without turning the phone on
- text messages can only be sent to one person at a time
- horizontal keyboard mode is only avaliable in safari
I guess that isn’t a very large list of things that I want changed in the iPhone. Actually those are all software problems that could be fixed through a software updates. Apple hasn’t released any updates to the iPhone as of yet, so we will see if the problems I am seeing, are ones that Apples feels like they should fix.
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without support for Outlook tasks, the iPhone is crap. Any task and deadline intensive profession (like my own, law) needs to-do list support. I want an iPhone, but when I went to the local ATT store to buy one I was shocked that the simplest of functions was left out. Boneheaded. It’s clearly a programmers toy, not one for the serious businessperson or professional.
I can agree with you there. The outlook support is just not there. The iphone wont sync mails from an exchange server either. I think in time we will see these problems ironed out through software updates. I am very happy with the iPhone though. Its the best performing mobile device I have owned. For a serious business professional, blackberrys might be the way to go for now.
I love mine in spite of the issues mentioned. I still carry my Treo 680 for Outlook Exchange Server, etc. It’s a 2x better PHONE than the Treo or BB, which shocked me. I am hoping that the elegant way of using itunes to update the phone (I’m on 1.0.2 now) is going to iron out the Outlook issues.