Comments on: iPhone Blues – Somebody Save Me!

By: Adi R

Adi R — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:41:39 +0000

You raise excellent points, especially with iTunes limitations. I am sure iTunes will be annoyance, but I hope it can convert some media to MP4 format itself, but even if not, I have plenty of software to do that.
I did not really plan to have too many media files, or even music files, on iPhone, I am mostly looking at it as cloud computing type device, to connect me with all the web sites I visit often, like Google Reader, facebook and many others. Evernote.com site is also very promising, where it auto-uploads and OCRs images that you take of notes/things to remember.
There are tons of games also available already for iPhone and more are coming, with full 3D, which is very promising as well.
Also, I am seeing more and more sites coming out with iPhone optimized version, some put out dedicated iPhone software, and even sites that aren’t optimized for iPhone are readable, which is impressive.
Btw, On your WM 6.1 device, are you able to fully view HTML based emails properly, with images and everything?

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:16:33 +0000

Few remarks…
I am not sure regarding your SmartPhone, but I do have Java platform on my PDA phone, running WM6.1. It is still limited, comparing to desktop, but it manages to run few things I need.Now, the media issue… You will have to upload all the content using iTunes.In addition, DivX content is not natively supported by iPhone, you will have to convert everything to MP4, and then upload to the phone, again, using iTunes.And the “best” part,that is actually correct regarding first iPhone (do you recall that I sold my iPhone after 2 weeks?), you will be able to sync your iPhone to 1 desktop.What I mean by that, is that if, for example, you have uploaded some media at home, and then connect your iPhone to work’s desktop, in order to down/upload the media, iTune’s “best offer” is to delete all currently existing media from iPhone, and then upload the media you have at work. Here is the place to give some credit to Microsoft’s ActiveSync, that has “Guest membership” which does not limit you in any way, and you can install apps, copy data in any direction. You have great media players for WM based devices, and they play DivX.Some also manage to play Flash content,iPhone only plays youtube’s clips,using special software. In most cases you have SD expansion slot, and not limited to 8/16 GBs of storage.Outlook Calendar and Contacts sync natively with your Desktop.You have a lot of GPS software developed for WM, iPhone still lacks that.You will probably mention Google maps regarding that, but lets face the truth, Google maps is not the same as dedicated GPS software,which has great maps and doesn’t require you to use the 3G data network, and will work in Israel, for instance. So, there are still negative issues, but for $200 I would buy it myself , just because I love gadgets, not because I like iPhone 2.

By: Doron

Doron — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:09:48 +0000

The line outside the store does not mean that inside you will find your deired 3G phone, do not compromise (although it is late), wait !!!

By: Adi R

Adi R — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:35:58 +0000

Good try, but like you said, it may just be a simple future software update. Plus, I got voice dialing now on my phone, and I think I used it 2 times in the last 2 years, and it probably took longer to set it up and teach the phone voice labels, etc.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:30:35 +0000

If there is no voice dialing then I can’t see the sense in getting the iPhone. Maybe I’ll be interested after software release 2.1 or whatever is next.