iPhone review

   

iDay. At 3 afternoon. The wall street At&t's front door has already collected about 50 people lined up for the iPhone.
An hour later. The line has extended to 100. And it ridiculously turned me off for the phone. After dinner and top of the 3rd of the Yankees. We decided to go for a iPhone lurking walk. At&t store was up with personals proudly announced us that no more iPhone left but they can order it for us which will cost us about 49 dollars for the date unknown shipping. How about I come pick it up in the store? I asked. You'll still have to pay for the shipment to the store ... It suddenly sounds very socialist and phishy. Not just for the unknown waiting time, it was because I know Apple ship for free on any order over 50 bucks. Plus. There must be a reason why the Apple stores are open from 6 pm. till midnight. They aren't going to handle those hungry geeks for 6 hours if the stock can only holds for an hour sale. It was only 9:30 pm. We then decided to direct to the Soho store.

A friday night before the 4th of July vacation. The traffic is always a mess in Soho without mentioning the parking "facility". But unexpectedly we've found a couple of the parking spots just right at the store corner. The store seems like just visited by a cyclone with trashed cartons waste and a group of Apple-tee geeks resting or smoking at the side door. But the easy parking surprise and the relaxing geeks seems very suspicious. Is there any iPhone left? I asked a happy worn out Apple-tee geek at entrance. There is plenty iPhones. Just go up stairs to the right. He must said that more than 100 times now but he's still smiling. And thank to Steve. About 20 happy Apple-tee geeks are behind the regular genius bar and iPod bar, serve the iPhone like the popular drink with an amaze speed. The huge iPhone stock and the wireless payment machine make the purchase extremely simple. A smiling happy Apple-tee geek waved to us from the far: Credit card? Yes. Ok. I want one in 8G please. Ok. Here you go. email address? xxxxx@mac.com, He slides the credit card. We signed. We're all set. The bill will be in your inbox in maybe couple of hours. Thanks!! And that was not more than 3 minutes. Then we left the store with an iPhone in an iPhone paper bag like a fancy Gucci handbag. Everyone is happy. Which I dare say that night. The Apple stores were the IT place to get high.

Now is the reality.
The activation needs the latest iTunes 7.3 to run. And it could be as smooth as they said.
But after couple hours of tete a tete with my iPhone surfing, twittering, emailing ... I went to sleep with a list of improvement they can come out with upgrade.

1. Can not record the sound.
2. Can not customize your own ring tone.
3. Can not MMS.
4. Can not GPS.
5. Can not iChat, MSN, Skype...
6. Can not read all video files.
7. Do not support flash.
8. Can not alternatively work or save with Microsoft Office files or any other files.
9. Can not sync Notepad.
10. No Undo action facility.
11. Can not use regular headphone jacks.
12. No update widgets online yet.
13. No games.
14. No auto Junk mail setup and bounce back facility.
15. Can not save email attachment
16. No multiple mails delete facility.
17. No secure confirmation before delete file or call out.
18. No check box for the group selection.
19. Can not download any file.
20. Can not bluetooth data.
21. No iTunes song, video online listening and purchase.
22. No multi languages input facility.
23. Can not watch TV.
24. Silver back corner not enforced
25. It's not a 3G video phone.
26. Too big, too heavy, too slippery.
27. Doesn't come with protection case.
28. No charm or strap facility.
29. At&t has more drop calls and less signal ever.
30. The camera has no zoom.
31. Can not film video.
32. The internet connection consume too much power.
33. Can not find all video on YouTube.
34. Can not disable T9 correction. Writing foreign languages is a nightmare.
35. Can not send contact.
36. PDA part can work without SIM card, but iPhone can not work with other phone card.

Of course we all know The north america is many years behind on the 3G video phone. But I believe the iPhone can catch it up one way or the other once the network is ready. The sound record, personalize ring tones, online chat, Microsoft Office, games ... etc. Any software can be update like the widgets. The protection case is just another Apple classic trick which you'll have to spend an extra 30 bucks for it. Plus, a special adaptor for the regular headphone for 10 bucks. And 100 bucks for a pair of good headset.

Anyhow. The iPhone's safari works as good as on the computer, and the YouTube film and iPhone version's Apple Movie trailers looks like on a real screen. And beside all these. I'm sure there is a bunch of less happy apple-tee geeks are already working on releasing more iPhone widgets. But when?