iPhone Rocks
July 9, 2007 9:46 pm
Well all I can say is that the iPhone Rocks! It has it’s glitches but it still Rocks!
In New York, the hype was palpable – every water-cooler conversation you could imagine included the phrase “iPhone”. If you really thought that 6:00pm Friday June 29th was when Happy Hour started, you had clearly lived the previous fours weeks with your head in the sand.
So what to do – do I get sucked into the hype machine, or do I go with my normal dislike of investing in first generation. Haha I mean it took 15 years of being a PC user before I dared move to the dark side and became a Mac User. I did the rational research, the really reviews, and by 6:30pm on Friday 29th I was standing in a massive line outside the Apple Soho Store waiting for my turn to get the iPhone.
And getting it within the first hour of launch meant I avoided the technical problems connecting with AT&T. For me it was straight home, plugged into iTunes and had a new AT&T account within 5 minutes. And then the fun began …
Seriously it is one sexy, sleek phone. The functionality that is on the phone is faithful to what had been advertised – which means that not everything you would want is there – but what is there works well and integrates beautifully with each other piece of software. There are some minor software glitches and hangups that occur, but you would have to be pretty naive to think these wouldn’t have been there. Thankfully they will likely be addressed over the first few software updates in the coming months.
There are some great little tips and tricks within the phone and if you are a true Mac Geek, then you will spend lots of time on the Apple Discussion Forums understanding the in’s and out’s of the device.
And have to say, Saturday June 30th saw more New Yorkers wanting to stop and talk about the phone than in the whole year that I have been living in Manhattan. It gets attention that is for sure.
So my rating – its worth the hype and I know it will only get better over time – this is a great step forward in the mobile market. And my favorite feature – Google Maps simply ROCKS!
