HAY GUYZ! iPHONE!
Posted on September 14, 2007Well. You all knew it was going to happen. Everybody’s been asking where’s mine. Doing the finances in Numbers Wednesday night, I noticed that after making car payments for this month and the next two, after paying off some of my credit card debt, putting money into savings for school, and paying off the rest of my bills for the month, I have a little money left over. So I decided to venture up to Omaha and get an iPhone, being as they recently knocked the price down a couple hundy.
Everybody else has already done their iPhone reviews, so I won’t go on for too long about it. Here’s some highlights:
- Safari - It is incredibly handy to be able to take Safari with me everywhere. Now I can settle arguments over whether it was Johnathon Schaech or Balthazar Getty in Roadhouse 2, all right at my fingertips. And Facebook’s iPhone optimized page is pretty handy too.
- iCal - I like having my calendar with me. I’ll be able to use iCal again instead of relying on online solutions.
- Camera - Not fantastic, not bad either. As others have said, it would definitely benefit from a flash. But if you’re buying a phone for the camera, you may as well look for a more dedicated phone-camera.
- EDGE Speed - Not as bad as I was expecting, based on how much everybody was complaining. Then again, I don’t know what the EDGE coverage in service in Lincoln is, but so far I’ve had no complaints.
- Battery Life - Not as good as the Razr, but the Razer doesn’t compare. Turning off wi-fi helps quite a bit.
I don’t try to be a tool about it, but so far I haven’t been able to pull the phone out and not attract a bunch of people want to see it and play with it. Hurray! Popularity! Of course it’s hard not to look like a tool though when you have a crowd of people around your phone. That said, I totally love it and regret nothing.
Reading from the manual, I noticed that they are really protective of the phone. Not only do they warn against using the iPhone in a blasting area, I found this little tidbit:
Handling iPhone
Do not drop, disassemble, open, crush, bend, deform, puncture, shred, microwave, paint, or insert foreign objects into iPhone
Notice that it says nothing about blending.
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Congratulations! Your thoughts confirms everything I have heard from other “real” reviews - which is that it is one very nice device and has earned every iota of hype it received. I’m likely going to wait for a later generation one. I would love to have to not have to carry my darn phone and music player around all the time. Plus my current phone absolutely blows (Virgin mobile Kyocera) - so that increases my motivation to get an iPhone.
you’re such a tool. just kidding. lol.
im a subscriber of “will it blend” on youtube, and when i saw that video i about busted a nut. as i’ve told you a few times (and will continue to tell you) i will never been steve jobs’ iBitch. people always talk about how buying iProducts is their stance against captalism and corporations … those people are ignorant hypocrits, because Apple fooled all those bitches. LOL!
im happy you got the iPhone and enjoy it. and thanks for the unbias review of the product.
more importantly, i owe you lunch at either ROOST, Yia-Yia’s, or OSO for that contest i held last month. wanna do it this week? mondays & wednesdays after 120p work for me. hit me back.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big old mac fag, I just don’t think I’m being revolutionary or anti-corporate for not buying Micro$$$oft. They make an awesome product and I love it.
its okay. i still love you. so lunch? and what golf course do you work at? i might stop in some night have a few drinky-drinks and shoot the breeze w/ ya.
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