Pete and Ben chat about the iPhone 3G, a week on. We talk about:
- Purchase stories
- Activation
- Hardware
- Plastic back
- Feels good in the hand and doesn’t slip
- GPS
- A bit subtle about satellite lock
- Reception
- 3G doesn’t drop back to 2G quickly enough
- Sound
- On 2G in my bad reception it’s the best phone Peter’s used
- Camera
- Disappointing but functional. Lens flare if there’s any backlight
- Battery life
- Lasts a day of pretty heavy use
- Plastic back
- Software
- App store
- Favourite apps so far
- Byline
- Google reader reader (with offline)
- iPint
- Always gets a laugh
- It is now the top free app
- OmniFocus
- Twinkle
- Ben - The best use of location I’ve seen so far. You see people responding to other tweets locally. Normally these people wouldn’t be able to find each other. Recognised a name mentioned in one (a former colleague of some people at work)
- Peter lives 5 miles from Ben.
- Peter - Someone rather menacingly said “we know where you live” after I posted with GPS position outside.
- Shazam
- Mocha VNC Lite
- More Cowbell
- Byline
- Crashing apps
- Peter - AIM
- Ben - A few apps crash. Kind of makes me wonder if it’s the apps or the OS?
- Problems
- Peter - Push email notification troubles
- Stopped on Friday
- Rebooted and then my .mac account came back
- removed .mac and it works again
- Ben - Push notification works from the iPhone but not the mac itself. Found I need to sync explicitly or wait for the next sync (even on “automatic”)
- Peter - Push email notification troubles
- Data usage so far…
- Peter - Sent 3.1Mb, Received 42.4Mb = 45.6Mb -> 152Mb / month
- Ben - I can’t say since I’ve had it reset to some value twice after the iPhone restarted itself. Currently says Sent 2.4Mb, Received 24.2Mb
Why does every keep talking about this crappy iPhone. I am, and I am sure others are getting sick of it !
What’s wrong with OpenMoko ? See : http://www.openmoko.com/
A very worth while read is here : http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
Regards,
Edward.
I’m quite interested in OpenMoko. It’s good to see they’ve got a device out the door. It sure seems like it’s been a long time. Now to see it in shops in Australia…
I agree that Apple is the master of generating publicity for itself and I’m sure people are sick of it. I am a mac user and for the first time I have contact, calendar and mail syncing with my phone that just works. It doesn’t hurt that the device does a lot of things really well.
Hey Ben,
I just finished uni and I’m about to search for a job. Good podcast! The reason I want an iphone over any other phone is a quality phone really, almost all fiance’s phones have problems. Do you know what to do with warranty repairs with the iphone?
I want an iphone
Also when near a wifi spot does the iphone automatically route data through the wifi or do you have to do it manually?
Good to hear from you again Jim.