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13 July
Some thoughts on the iPhone from a former owner
See my previous blog post for why i returned my iPhone.
The iPhone is an amazing device but it is complicated mobile computer and a V1 (For those reasons I am glad I didn't buy a tesla roadster now). I will try it out again in the future after they have a chance to work out the end to end kinks in the hardware, software and support process (maybe v2, but likely v3 given the amount of complexity). Hopefully they'll add some features and clean up some of the UX nits that drove me bonkers. Some low hanging UX nits:
Entering WEP passwords sucks and should have a special keyboard mode that displays all of the hex chars on one screen
Every password entry text box should have an option to see what I had typed in to ensure I didn't make any mistakes (I get there are security implications, but with the keyboard on the thing I think it is needed).
A keyboard shift lock would be nice and perhaps it exists...but i never found it.
The hardware volume control didn't "flip" when the device was horizontal. Thus it acted backwards from the on screen volume control.
The cover art didn't always work. Sometimes it was there for a song and sometimes not and I couldn't quite figure out why (perhaps some cacheing issues with embedded ID3v2 cover art tagged media or maybe they are downloading album art for playing media?)
Feature wise what I really want is an iPhone without the phone part. The aspects I truly enjoyed about the device were the internet connectedness (though it needs a better email story than POP...read state synch is a killer feature) and the large touch screen interface for media (the flip cover UX finally was *useful* not just pretty and video looked great / was a great time killer). Oh, and it really does need 3G because the edge data rate was way to slow when there was no free wifi to tap into. I'd gladly pay 20 bucks a month for the data service for the device (though please make it tether then). If they throw in GPS it would rock my world as the ultimate iDevice.
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