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Kiss My Life Goodbye
30/06/07 20:46 Filed in: iPhone
After about 3 hours there was still no change. But then while out and about with my Sidekick I got an email message from Apple welcoming me to the iPhone. Now, "please wait" was pretty ambiguous, but "Welcome" is definitely a good thing.
Sure enough when I arrived home all was well. From start to finish it was about 15 hours of waiting. WAY to long in my book. But that's behind me now and I the iPhone is so completely great that I've all but forgotten the pain. No, I'm serious, it's that good. If you were on the fence, get off, go to the Apple Store and pay the cash, wait the 15 hours, it's totally worth it.
The "keyboard is hard to use" nay-sayers are clueless. I think it's better than my sidekick and the sidekick wasn't half bad. The auto-correction thing is freaky cool and very awesome. I gave up on the one finger typing after about 15 minutes and went straight to thumbs. Works great.
Everything else is really just the same features that I had on my sidekick -- except how you would imagine them to be if you were dreaming. Instead of pictures looking pixelated and weird they're big and sharp. Instead of some weird Sidekick software to load music, it's an iPod. Instead of a weird web browser, I actually have something useful.
When I got email on my sidekick it used some half-assed attempt at IMAP protocol. Sort of pulling the info down, but not really behaving like a real IMAP client. The iPhone is just like the real deal. I can now get email EVERYWHERE -- and respond. I will never have any sort of life ever again.
Of course I haven't tried everything, but I'm finding even the cliche stuff like YouTube pretty damn addicting. Oh and shockingly the EDGE speed seems about 2x faster than it did on my Sidekick. Why? I don't know why, but I sure am glad. It's actually quite usable.
So run on out and get yourself one. You'll be happy you did.