
January 14th, 2009, 04:46 PM
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whoohoo it's summer time!
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: the North Coast
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Well since this is already necroed, might as well give my iPhone impressions after having it for about 5 and a half months:
The App Store is by far and away the best thing about the phone. There is a free version of nearly every pay app, and there is an app for EVERYTHING. I can't believe I ever went without Yelp, Facebook Mobile, WhitePages, Showtimes (movie listings), Shazam (Song ID app), Pandora Radio, etc etc...especially the maps app that comes with the phone--indispensable.
I am just fine with the typing, I know some people complain about the lack of a physical keyboard, but I tried using a friend's BlackBerry a few weeks ago and found that I was actually slower typign on it than I am on my iPhone.
I love how texts show up like an iChat conversation, so you can see previous messages.
Jailbreaking gives you access to even more apps, like Cycorder, which turns the still pictures camera into a video camera.
My one complaint--while the screen is incredibly scratch resistant to being dropped, and large objects like keys hitting it, it has basically no resistance to small grains of dirt/dust. There is a smallish bit of dust that seems to have gotten under the screen somehow, but my biggest beef is that twice I tried to clear off smudges which my thumb, only to have some nearly grain of rock/sand scratch the screen when I slid my thumb across it.
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