Jun 21 2009
iPhone OS 3.0
You don’t have to very far back in my posts to learn that I recently got an iPhone. While I have had it for a little more than a couple weeks, I’ve had many opportunities to check it out.
First of all, I’m generally very happy with it. A co-worker just got a new HTC phone and isn’t very happy with it. That being said, I do have a few issues with this phone and new OS.
First of all, I’m very disappointed that there is no voice dialling available (especially with Bluetooth) unless you get the 3GS. It’s a feature that I will adjust to not having, but it is something that I would expect. The keyboard rotating and cut and paste options are definately nice to have, but I am noticing a lag/delay/temporary freezing occuring since the upgrade of OS. I can only assume that will be corrected in revisions of 3.0 in the near future, along with app software programmers tweaking their apps to work better with it as well.
In addition to this, it would be nice to create folders in the mail program. I understand that if I use IMAP it will sync everything over, including folders, but I seem to be reading 99% of my emails through the phone now..
That’s about it though. It’s much easier to type on a qwerty keyboard instead of a numerical keypad. And having the Internet available in the palm of my hand is really nice.
You’re still using POP for email? I switched to IMAP years ago and never looked back – the automatic synchronization makes keeping my account at home and my iPhone account seamless – whatever you do on any device automatically syncs to all other devices, including the iPhone.
And yes, folders do sync.
The voice dialing is something I never got accustomed to having as the iPhone was my first phone that even had Bluetooth, so I can’t say I ever missed it, but I can understand how others do. It always seemed like a glaring oversight on the original iPhone and 3G and I see no reason why they couldn’t support it (at least the 3G) without much effort, but Apple seems to want to hold it back (my guess) and keep it a feature solo to the 3GS. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it appear with a software update on the 3G once the 3GS initial sellout is over.