a fortnight with the 3G iPhone
Given the painfully awful process of actually getting an iPhone to call my own, it reaaly needed to be good in order for that process to have seemed worthwhile. Luckily, it doesn’t dissapoint.
Having been in an iPhone-less Japan for the best part of a year, the original iPhone passed me by completley. And so many of my observations would have been pertinent to the iPhone as a product range, not just this latest iteration of the hardware and software within.
The most startling diference the iPhone has made is to my MacBook Pro. I used to have it switched on all the time, ready to check emails, feed read and browse. I now do all of those things on my phone. And the only limitation I’ve really been concerned by, is battery life. I’m using it far more as a PDA than as a phone, and I’m needed to charge it daily to ensure it doesn’t die on me. I’m thinking I’ll need to buy a small, rechargable charging dealie soon.
Overall, the 3G iPhone is undoubtably the best mobile phone I’ve ever used, but it’s also the best MP3 player I’ve ever used, the best portable video player I’ve ever used and the best PDA I’ve ever used. Not bad then.
