First iPhone impressions: irritation
I’ve been using the iPhone properly now for 72 hours, and the my first impressions have set in. And while there is a lot of good about the phone, there are definite imperfections. Here are the top three:
It’s slow. Actions that took an imperceptible time before, such as selecting somewhere else in the Contacts list, or going to the SMS screen, now have a perceptible delay. This is going to irritate me more and more.
It’s buggy. I’ve had the location services freeze, requiring me to reboot the phone to get it working. I never needed to reboot my last one.
Battery life is terrible When out and about in the city centre last night, with moderate iPhone use over both Wifi and 3G, the battery got down to 20% from a full charge over five hours. That’s really not good.
For the moment, applications and flexibility are winning out - I do still like it. However my opinions may have changed after a few months’ use.
Posted: July 14th, 2008 under Review.
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Comment from Jens Hansen
Time: July 14, 2008, 8:36 pm
I purchased the new iPhone in anticipation of connecting to my employer’s Exchange server and ditching that awful Treo they gave me.
The set-up process was flawless. Although I’m not tech clueless, I’m not a networking engineer either. Still, I was able to glean the information I needed by looking at the instruction sheet I had for setting up the Treo.
The Exchange integration has two significant shortcomings, in my opinion.
The first has to with Calendar. Although it is possible to create a calendar appointment from the iPhone and view attendees from meetings created in Outlook, you can’t invite attendees from the iPhone.
The second issue is my Outlook task list is not available on the iPhone.
It doesn’t appear that the lack of either of these functions are show stoppers, but they are features that I will miss.
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