Pondělí září 22, 2008

A Month with iPhone 3G

I fell victim to the iPhone mania. As the iPhone officially arrived to the Czech Republic on Friday, August 22, 2008, I was standing in the queue in front of the T-mobile shop on Narodni street at midnight. T-mobile started to sell iPhone by launching a short party where the first owners of iPhone could meet Roland Mahler, T-mobile CEO, in person. Although I was not so fortunate as the one lucky winner of a free iPhone draw, I was lucky enough to get my contract prolonged to buy iPhone for a subsidied price of 2468 Kc ($150), which is exactly what I was dreaming about, because a usual price of 8GB version of iPhone 3G is 12000 Kc ($730). I was very excited to buy the new iPhone for such a good price that I didn't mind getting to bed late, as I left the shop as the last customer at 2 am.

I wrote the first paragraph just a day after I bought the iPhone and wrote it solely on my new iPhone. It was a pleasant experience, as the automatic spell-checker does a good job of correcting your typos. But there's a hitch in it (as there are many others related to almost any feature of the iPhone): you don't like to write in anything else than English. As you can see, writing a Czech text message gets sometimes really painful. It's a good example of many limitations that I was discovering in the past month. I will sum them up to make a picture of what you will miss (for many users of high-end mobile phones this can get very entertaining):

• you can't send MMS
• you can't switch off automatic spell-checker which corrects your mistakes (painful)
• there is no file manager: you can't download/upload files on the web or use WiFi/Blutetooth to exchange files (you sync only via iTunes SW on Windows/MacOS)
• you can't listen to audio via Bluetooth (I miss this very much!)
• you can't send a contact via sms
• there's no copy&paste

Now -- do you know what's the best thing about iPhone? The iPhone is so cool, that you don't care about any limitation whatsoever. :-) I mean it. It's the best mobile phone/mp3 phone/toy I have ever had and I still love it!

— IX 22 2008, 07:51:55 odp. CEST Permalink Comments [1]