iPhone

Task management or to-do lists are a very personal thing.  Everyone seems to have their own concept of keeping track of their "to-do" list.  Usually there is one common thread: a list.  How you shuffle it, organize it, or tag it, is the personal part of it. I was excited to see the to-do option in mail.app with the release of Leopard, but that just never seemed to get off the ground.  Additionally I needed a list that moved with me on my iPhone.  I've been struggling ever since I gave up my Treo for my iPhone last year.  That is, until now.

Will there be another iPhone price drop in 3 months? I was just checking out the AT&T site and I happened to notice the date in the price block in the upper right hand portion of their site:

There I go posting an "early" post, in my early adopter tradition and minutes after I post my complaint, Apple responds.

You made it right Apple. I appreciate that. And I'm taking my $100 and using it to stand in line for the next new item.

I'm happy with my iPhone. I love new gadgets. But I've learned a lesson. You can buy MANY more new gadgets if just wait a little over 2 months if you buy an Apple gadget. I'm an early adopter. I buy the latest, greatest. I deal with the bugs, the kinks and the cost of having the latest greatest and enjoy it. I bought the MacBook Pro an hour after it was announced. There have been revs and price changes but they didn't come 68 days and weren't 33%. I bought a 1st gen shuffle minutes after the announcement and I happily bought a second gen when it came out.

I was happy to hear that Apple was including a 3.5" jack on the iPhone. There would be no having to lug around an adapter for headphones like I did with my Treo. Then i got my iPhone and tried to plug in my Bose noise cancelling headphones and they wouldn't work. Close examination revealed the plug wasn't all the way in because the jack was recessed!

There I am loving my iPhone. Talking and surfing. Talking and emailing. Then the fun starts to diminish. Talk, surf, crash. It's like a snowball going down hill, getting worse and worse. It's more like just talk, and crash.

Thinking it's a mini OS X, I figure there's got to be a "Force quit" or heck just a reset. Sure enough:

Force Quit: Press and hold the "Home" button for six seconds with that app being displayed. IE., if you're staring at a Safari screen and nothing is happening. Just press and hold the Home button.

Hard Reset: This is the one that stopped my "snowball".

I've just found this. It's MacWorld's list of what Apple did right and wrong. The best synopsis of plusses and minuses I've found in my opinion. Probably because I agree with all of them. :)

I've now had my iPhone for 24 hours plus. I've posted my first impressions of it yesterday now I've got a few more comments. This isn't my first "smartphone". I've been searching for a "smartphone" that wasn't actually STUPID for years. I've had just about everything but a blackberry, and none of them could unobtrusively bring my info with me on the road. I was either manually moving things or had to "rig" three different programs to massage the data to get it on my phone.

Well I know there is plenty of information and blogs about the iPhone today and for the past several months. But I got my iPhone yesterday and I'd like to add my comments as I haven't seen some of these issues mentioned anywhere else.

Let me start by saying I've had them all..... I had Palm Pilots (I still have a Pilot 1000 w/ a serial number < 1000), Treos, Windows mobile phones, etc. I've been looking for a phone that is an extension of my home computer.

One of the things that concerned me with my $600 phone, was it looked "brittle". Like if I dropped it an inch my screen would have a big crack right down the center. Well thanks to these folks, I'll still be careful, but I feel a little more confident.

PC World Stress Test

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