Monday, July 16, 2007
Have you touched an Phone yet?
This weekend I was passing an Apple store and decided to check out the iPhone in person. The store was all iPhone. All of the large murals had iPhone related pictures and the front of the store had two 4 foot high iPhone replicas with moving video simulating the features of the iPhone. My first impressions were, Wow. It is not much bigger than an iPod. The keyboard was surprising easy to use as long as you are typing regular words. I could not find the Tab key to switch between fields on a web page. The touch screen is super cool. The best feature of all in my opinion. Surfing the web was really cool with the zooming in and out. Not having Flash support is a major oops. It is too prevalent to ignore. Using it as an iPod was the best iPod ever. But for me. The cost is the main hinderance. Both on the phone itself and the plan. Why don't cell phone plans ever get cheaper. The carriers keep just adding minutes but never lower there prices. The phone towers should be payed off by now. Innovation should yield lower costs. The iPhone plans just add to the cost inflation. One last flaw I see is not allowing outside developers to have apps outside of Safari. Over all, quite a product, and looking forward to cheaper and better versions down the road. Then I might buy.
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Stitch, I would agree with literally everything you said. The iPhone is every bit as magnificent and ground breaking as we thought it would be. The touch screen and associated software is ahead of everything else out there, no question. Surfing the internet is better than anything out there. I would think flash support is a software update away. I loved the keyboard, and there is a new keystroke combination allowing users to access punctuation easily. Did I buy one? I couldn't plunk down $600 and commit to $60 a month at this time! I know, I know - I don't have a cell phone so why not? The answer is that I haven't been paying for cell phone service and I've beem fine up to now, so I feel I can wait a little longer to see what kinds of variations there will be on the iPhone as well as iPods. The rumors are flying of new touch screen iPods as well as an "iPhone nano"! Much like the iPod, I expect prices of iPhone to come down as memory storage comes down in price. Apparently $60 a month for all those services is competitive with other smart phone services! I don't know if we'll ever get relief on that, Stitch!
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