Date: 2007-06-27 10:16 Subject: iPhone: Want? Do not want? Security: Public Current Mood: curious

Actually, it's kind of moot, as long as I have my nice, free, employer-issued BlackBerry, but corporate IT keeps imposing new restrictions to what we can do with them--the latest was when they blocked access to GMail. If it gets much worse, I'll have to relent and start carrying two devices. Also in the mix is the uncertain lifespan of my aging iPod.

Pluses: The nicely integrated phone, iPod and web appliance I've wanted for a long time, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi.
Minuses: High cost, no memory card slot, no GPS, only one carrier.
Not-minuses (i.e., I either don't care or actually prefer it this way): No Java or Flash in the browser, so-so camera, no MMS.
Unknowns: Email push vs. periodic POP3 poll, calendar sync, oversensitive touch screen?

And for those of us still stuck on "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" jokes, here's a great quote from David Pogue's (NY Times) review of the iPhone:

On the iPhone, you don’t check your voice mail; it checks you.

From: temporus Date: 2007-06-27 02:55 pm (UTC) (Link)

Does, couldn't possibly care less count as an option? Seriously, Apple is boring. I wouldn't want one even if I didn't get the work leash. In fact, if I didn't have a cell because work wanted me to have one, I wouldn't have one. I find cells intrusive and a pain in general.

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From: imagine_kdg Date: 2007-06-28 01:00 am (UTC) (Link)

I want the iPhone, but I still have a year on my Verizon contract and I'm not willing to pay two early termination fees of $250 each to go to Cingular.

I hate that they've entered in to an exclusive contract with Cingular... my only solace is that eventually that will change (hopefully...)

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From: tish_the_dish38 Date: 2007-07-02 09:05 pm (UTC) I'm too low-tech (Link)

to care about an iPhone. I'll probably go blackberry next (did the verizon "chocolate" phone and find it amazingly nice for checking email on the run--except it doesn't check gmail.)

I'm more concerned about video these days and buying one of those nifty $750 nokias that can post video directly to the web. More and more I get approached by video widget makers and all other kinds of video people, many of them telling me I need to make video, so if I'm going to make video, I need a small, light, yet decent piece of multi-use equipment to do it. I don't know *what* it is with all these video guys, but it feels particularly surreal.

Yet the iPhone seems to be only a step, an in-between device, for the hand-held that will *really* do it all (in another couple of generations.) Still, once the device is set, will we have the necessary access? From what I heard at Supernova, we shouldn't hold our breath.

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