I was very excited that iOS 4 would include support for multiple exchange accounts. Previously, I had my phone syncing with google mobile sync as an exchange service and my work exchange account synced as an imap service. This allowed me to sync email, calendar, and contacts from google and email from work. However, when someone invited me to a meeting at work, I could not open the invite b/c of the limitations of the iPhone’s mail app when hooked into an imap account. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for category iPhone
Cheap iPad stand
May 5
I think this would work as a cheap iPad stand: wire plate / book holder for less than $10. Using this w/ a bluetooth keyboard would make it a lot more ergonomic, as then the iPad could be raised to a more appropriate height use as a monitor. It should make using it for longer periods of time less stressful.
- Verizon was offered the iPhone first and turned it down.
- Verizon historically exerts more control over their handsets than Apple would be comfortable with.
- The Verizon DROID ad campaign has been totally anti-iPhone. Read the rest of this entry »
I had tried out the G1 at T-Mobile stores, but really wasn’t impressed. It has a lot of similar features as the iPhone, but it was a lot less polished and not quite as logically lain out.
Android hardware has gotten a lot better since then. The OS has improved quite a bit as well. A friend of mine has a DROID that was just updated to Android 2.1 and I notice that a lot of the list scrolling (such as in the app management screen) and the zooming in and out in the maps app is definitely not as smooth as the iPhone. The whole Android experience is more complex. It feels more like Linux, which I suppose is not surprising. Prior to buying my iPhone 3GS, I spent a lot of time at the Apple store and at the T-Mobile store trying out both phones.
Anecdote About the Pre
Apr 15
Here’s an anecdote about the Pre. Last night I was at a networking event and we had to send an email out to the attendees with an update to the directions prior to the meeting. My colleague has a Pre. I was trying to send out an email using the registration site we use and couldn’t edit the rich text form with Mobile Safari. So I asked my colleague if I could try on his Pre. And it worked, but only because the site changed the text field to plain text. He said that was the first time that he could do something on the Pre that couldn’t be done on an iPhone and that usually it was the converse.
So, I’m happy I didn’t get a Pre.
I wonder who will end up buying Palm. Cisco, HTC, Nokia? I’m not sure why any of them would want it. And neither is this guy.
Since the announcement of iPhone OS 4.0, I’ve been reading up in more detail about multitasking on the various mobile platforms. John Gruber posted an elegant explanation about how the iPhone’s new multitasking feature will be very similar to Android’s existing one. Read the rest of this entry »
Many people blame the iPhone for the problems that its owners have experienced on ATT in the US. However, there is evidence that it’s ATT’s problem. Ever since the iPhone was released, there have been many people (me included) that have had reception problems with the iPhone. Dropped calls, inability to make calls, and slow data speeds have been the main symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »
More iPhone improvements
Mar 29
Here are a few other ways in which I think that the iPhone ecosystem can be improved. Read the rest of this entry »
iPhone improvements
Dec 19
I love my iPhone. It’s a great device. There are some limitations, but overall I’m very happy.
Here’s what I would improve: Read the rest of this entry »
Here are my thoughts about the smartphone market intertwined with my own device history.
For many years, I was a loyal Palm user, having started with the Palm Pro (1997) and going from that to the Palm III (1999) -> IIIxe (2001) -> Kyocera 6035 (smart phone) (2002) -> Treo 600 (2003) -> Treo 650 (2005) and then finally the Treo 700 (2007). I kept the Treo 700, even though it was dying and I was out of contract on Sprint because I was waiting for Sprint to release an Android phone and to see what the next iPhone would be like. I had also heard about the upcoming Palm Pre on Sprint and was interested in it. Read the rest of this entry »
