thoughts on the iphone

by paul, on 07.23.2007

I've had an iphone for several weeks now, there are a lot of really great things, some less than stellar things and a few totally inane things. I always like to hear the bad stuff first, so here are my complaints: 1) the headphones suck, and having a nonstandard headphone jack is ridiculous. I had to cut my e3cs with an exacto knife to get them to work with the iphone, and the headphones that ship in the box sound terrible and fit even worse.

2) the battery randomly drains sometimes. I am convinced this is a result of wifi network activity, as the battery life in general is very good. once every few days, I will wake up to a drained battery when it was fully charged the night before.

3) notes. I use the notes feature all the time and think it's great, but I can't move notes to and from my mac. this sucks, especially if you want to copy and paste directions or other chunks of text.

as far as complaints, that's pretty much it from me. the ipod UI, which I use more than anything else, is much improved. I love the way they incorporate album art. videos are amazing and fun to watch, email is super easy, stocks and weather are great, texting is crazy easy and visually appealing, and the web browser is fine (for me at least). worth 600 bucks? I go back and forth on this, for just a phone it's definitely overkill.

if you are like me and you are a complete ipod junkie and carry your phone and ipod with you everywhere in your pockets and live in a city where you walk everywhere, then I'd say it's probably worth it, but just barely :).