Finally, I’ve tried the iPhone
- Published July 15th, 2007 in Personal
I’ve been several times to an Apple store after the iPhone was released but unfortunately there was always a huge line to get to touch it. Today I decided I’d touch one no matter what. And I did.
Let me tell you: this is the best and slickest gadget I’ve ever touched. Period. It’s great, the software is amazing and it’s 100% intuitive and user friendly. I did not have any problems using the keyboard but I did not use it thoroughly (a couple of minutes are definitely not enough) and I do not have big fingers (contrary to some other appareil).
It’s a huge revolution in what concerns to mobile phones. I still remember the first Nokia 1100. Nothing has evolved that much since then. Until now!
You can find some pictures on my Flickr account. Some of the pictures are not focused since I had the macro disabled (I was too excited playing with the iPhone).
By the way and just out of curiosity, when I left there were three people waiting on the line for my iPhone. There were around 20 iPhones for display in the San Francisco store. Who still thinks the iPhone is only hype has been living his basement. This is 15 days after the release!
So, you have, in a given moment, (assuming that the queues grow more or less equally) 60 lads waiting to try a phone. Where does that not make iPhone a hype?
Massive fever to “touch the goods” is half-way to the “hype” status, IMHO. I guess only sales and overall satisfaction (and I don’t mean “every blog article you can think of says good stuff about the iPhone” — that’s quite a biased population sample) will tell if it’s only hype. ;)
Oh, and in what regards this sentence of yours:
I can’t help but relate it with this Douglas Adams’ one:
How old did you say you were? ;)
João,
Now it’s quite common to go on the train and see someone taking out his iPhone. As I’ve previously reported, the lines for buying the iPhone on the day it was launched were HUGE. Approx 700K iPhones were sold only on that weekend. Still hype? ;-)
As for the revolution, my father also assessed (and wants to buy one) iPhone’s revolutionary status. And he’s way over 35 ;-)
Hype has several interpretations. I like the to promote or publicize extravagantly. But most of the people see it as promote and publicize extravagantly something that has no substance or not has much as expected or advertised and for that definition I believe iPhone does not fit. As for the first one, yes of course. :-)
dang :)
I’m going to the US in a month or so… I’m moving there… HOPEFULLY I’ll get my hands on one of those babies soon =)
Can’t really tell if I’ll be buying one asap, but I’ll want to try it out with my own hands (fingers :p).
Lucky you… lucky you… :)
PS: Em Portugal, a malta na fila à espera, estaria a chamar-te nomes e a refilar que nunca mais te despachavas… LOL :)
Eheh, you should definitely try using it! :-)
By the way, I’ll keep an eye on your blog. Seems promising :-)
hehe
Oh thank you :)
I’ll try to live up to the hype :p
(pun intended!) hehe
Abraço
> It’s a huge revolution in what concerns to mobile phones.
Unfortunately, design wise only.
The iPhone’s design is very good, typical of any Apple product, but it does not record video or audio, no 3g, no java, no mms, no voice dialing, you pay 80$ just to change your battery in an Apple store, to replacable memory cards.
Then, I still don’t understand where Apple’s designer had their heads stuck into when they thought of fitting a keyvboard with qwerty layout in that narrow screen, where we have to use your fat fingers. At least the display turns 90º with Safari.
Selling 700k units in few days, for 500$ or 600$ a piece… that really is hype, hardly anything else. That’s the only revolution I can think about.
I’d buy an iPhone for 200~250 because that’s the price you pay for something with similar or better technology, design appart. 500/600$ is too expensive for such a device.
Eiras,
You’ll have to use one iPhone first. The few moments I had one everything comes so naturally, you don’t have to exasperate through confusing menus or small buttons that do not make any sense at all.
I agree with the fact that does not have 3G or Java or MMS. But honestly, does it really need it? All my phones had Java and honestly I’ve never used it or felt the need to use it. Same applies to MMS. Never sent a MMS message. As for 3G, rumours have it that the European version will have 3G. Having 3G in the USA would be pointless since there are not 3G networks here.
> you don’t have to exasperate through confusing menus or small buttons that do not make any sense at all.
That’s a problem all mobiles have.
> As for 3G, rumours have it that the European version will have 3G.
It must, else Apple won’t do business here.
I think it’ll have mms support in the future, as it’s great to send pictures to other people. Steve unfortunately does not want 3rd party apps in the phone, so no Java, although his reasons are far from convincing, or reasonable.
I think the future looks promissing for this device, and I hope it’ll evolve, but currently for me, it sucks.
Eiras,
That’s a problem all mobiles have.
The iPhone doesn’t :-) It’s as fluid as going through water. You know what to do.
I think it’ll have mms support in the future, as it’s great to send pictures to other people.
For sending large pictures email is clearly better. Also, don’t forget the iPhone has unlimited data plans so the focus will be on the internet and not on services provided over the mobile phone network. So, you can IM or send an email. Isn’t that much cooler than SMS or MMS?
More than 700k units sold.. only 146k activations…
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/25090.php
ah ! So it seems most people only bought the phone to resell it. It’s tme for AT&T to rethink their price’s plan.
@Eiras,
Do you think Apple minds?? :) hehe
Well, I only care about Apple’s success… couldn’t care less about AT&T’s ;)
cheers