iPhone — A few days in…

Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by grinthock.
Categories: Apple, Fido / Rogers, iPhone.

Well a few days in, and we have realized a few things….

Battery…   We said it in the previous post — i’ll say it again…  Horrid.

Network….  4 Days in, and Fido/Rogers has already experienced a 6 hour outage on Tuesday of this week, no data service for half of the business day and spotty service for the rest.

Mail Notification….  The notification of new email is a short, quiet tone and a quick BUZZ sound, it’s VERY quiet, and pretty much impossible to hear unless it’s silent — THIS CAN NOT BE CHANGED.   This is completely unacceptable, this renders the device almost useless as a mobile communications device.  The sound can not be changed, made louder, or modified in any way.

Apps Crashy Crashy…  We reviewed the iPod Touch awhile back, and were running lots of sweet apps on it, via installer.app, most of those apps, and the Apple provided apps such as Google Maps and otherwise were quite stable.  We have found many apps on the new 2.0 to be quite crashy crashy, some of them refusing to load unless we reboot the phone.

UPDATE on push email…  We have started testing push email from mail2web.com’s free Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync service, and so far we are glad to report that the  push email IS working pretty good.  Yahoo Mail’s service is either not working properly or is slow.  It’s quite delayed.   The Exchange ActiveSync service also seems to push quite slowly, and not as reliably as we had hoped, our Blackberry comparisons are still showing the Blackberry as significantly faster.  More updates to come soon.  We can’t really get a clear concise answer on this issue, because the more we try to test it, the flakier it seems to be, it works for awhile, then stops.

There really are no available cases for this phone we like, there are many holders, not many with belt clips….  MacAlly has some coming, we will review some soon.

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