iPhone Hijinks


I just celebrated my birthday last week, and I got my wife's permission to go nuts and buy an iPhone. It has its faults, but overall, I've got to say that I'm very impressed. I didn't have any problems activating, and I probably get about 6 hours without needing to charge it. I have yet to look at a manual. My kids figured it out in no time. Very cool gadget.

It came in very handy when we went to visit the USS Cod at the Cleveland lakefront. We couldn't figure out where it was, once we got down to the pier between the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Burke Lakefront Airport, so I went online with the iPhone and pulled up the web page with the Cod info. On the hours page, there was a telephone number, and what's smart about that iPhone is that phone numbers on web pages are live links. I clicked on the link, and the iPhone calls the number. I reached the ticket booth of the USS Cod, and he told me where they were, and what's more, he told me that they had free parking! YES!

While touring the submarine, I used my phone to take pictures. They come out rather well for a phone camera. Email is very easy to use too. All my POP accounts work seamlessly.

When I got back home, I read some stories about the iPhone developer conference, and I tried out a few of the mini-apps that have already been devised for the iPhone. The gas app is nice, but I was blown away by the google iPhone Remote. It lets you browse the files on a Mac, use its iSight camera, view the desktop, even remotely control iTunes. It's an alpha release, and it's a work in progress, but wow.

The downside: how iPhone syncs. You can't sync it manually, or browse the file hierarchy. I was ticked off that I can't take some songs from this computer, some I have at work, etc. If you try, it wants to zap the existing files from the iPhone. That's my main complaint for now.

Posted: Wed - July 11, 2007 at 11:46 AM      

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