a month with iPhone

It's almost a month since I dropped my Samsung Blackjack in Lake Washington and bought a iPhone on the same day. Every time I told people the story, they were like "that's exactly what I was planning to do."

Anyway, my courting with iPhone started like any relationship, I was suspicious about it and missed the features on my Blackjack (corporate email, wireless synch or calender and contact). I eventually found a solution to corporate email (thanks to Visto), which adds another $10 to my monthly bill (Darn, I could have implemented this solution myself).

As for calender and contact, I would just have to synch them through USB connection, which is less convenient but not too bad.

Did I mention the web browser in iPhone? And the pinch, flicker and zoom features? Absolutely love it! Especially now that most of my favorite websites have an iPhone version already. MultiTouch plus the large display, made it a day-and-night difference with the scroll only web browsing on Blackjack.

As for MSN chat, on Blackjack, there was a dedicated application, on iPhone I had to use meebo. But AT&T charges me separately for each MSN message I sent through Blackjack. It seems those messages were going through SMS instead of data network, which is probably why the latency was so terrible. iPhone + Meebo is way better. My only complain is that I have to enter my password every time I leave meebo and come back. And meebo reloading was also a bit corky. 

AT&T had intentionally leaked that iPhone2 is gonna ship early 2008. I am convinced that this cool toy is only going to get better with a 3G datalink and more applications. I hope apple would offer a firmware upgrade to at least give us incombants the new applications. But again, it's from the greedy Apple, so I am not counting on that kind of charity.