I got the precious!! (iPhone love within)

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I got the precious!! (iPhone love within)

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Unwrapped, activated, and configured with all the goodies:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41659116@N00/1154771743

Then, we do what any respecting devnet junkie does..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41659116@N00/1154771789

Sorry its so blurry, its night, with poor lighting, and a cellphone camera.

But oh, its so shiny in person. SHINY. I has the precious!
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/jealous
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definitely is pretty!
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Lucky! *sigh*
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Having played with the iPhone for a day now, I can offer some insight:

- Phone interface done very well. Notice, not "right", as its missing a few things (no copy/cut & paste). There are places where it is slightly counter-intuitive to operate controls, but once you pick up on the tricks, its smooth.

- Scrolling done RIGHT. Its unbelievably smooth, and really responds quickly to finger strokes.

- Browser is better than I expected. I've browsed the majority of the sites I visit often, and I fully expected that I would need to find alternative interfaces. Not even remotely. CNN, Devnet, Digg, Slashdot, most major sites are really rendered very well.

- Zoom is just frickin cool! You put two fingers on the screen, and pull them apart from each other, and the section of the screen zooms in. Honestly wish my browser (on my desktop) did it. So wonderfully helpful for poor eyesight.

- Brightness beyond imagination. You can make this sucker bright enough to light a room.

- iPhone cannot receive or send MMS directly. There are sneaky ways around it (email, etc), but I have to think this is one they'll fix in an update before long.

- Mail works great. Fast, smooth, very easy to use. It also sync'd perfectly from my Macbook with no configuration required.

- Wireless is smoking fast. It auto-detects networks you prefer ("Friendly"), and the network speed is way more than needed.

- Very fast browsing on a very slow network. EDGE is rightly trashed, but in the drive through at McDonalds, I had time to load dev net, read two posts, load another forum, read a post there, and shut it off. There wasn't a long line either. No other phone I've had could have pulled that off.

- The keyboard takes some adjusting to. Some words it seems psychic about, and really makes it easy to type. Others? Not so much. But its fast enough to be comfortable and useful.

- Every app seems to have a guessing function for things like urls, words, and so on, and its pretty smart. That helps speed things up for you.

Overall, its a fantastic phone, a pretty solid PDA, and an *amazing* iPod.

Great stuff, truly. Now to dig in to learn more of the finger gestures, and look into special 'apps' for it. ;)
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I must have one!
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Phoenix :cry: oh please Phoenix... Buy me one? :(
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JellyFish wrote:Phoenix :cry: oh please Phoenix... Buy me one? :(
I couldn't even buy it myself. I paid half, and my work paid half. Expensive precious. Worth it though. Last phone didn't even have vibrate.

Yes, seriously.
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The Phoenix wrote:
JellyFish wrote:Phoenix :cry: oh please Phoenix... Buy me one? :(
I couldn't even buy it myself. I paid half, and my work paid half. Expensive precious. Worth it though. Last phone didn't even have vibrate.

Yes, seriously.
Ohw... I gots to get my project going; makes some money.
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Now I'm curious if their claims it would work with YouTube are correct? :)

Loosk really nice. I'd like one, but I don't think I could justify spending al that dollar on one :P
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The Phoenix wrote:I couldn't even buy it myself. I paid half, and my work paid half. Expensive precious. Worth it though. Last phone didn't even have vibrate.

Yes, seriously.
They paid half?? I need to become employed by a company.
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d11wtq wrote:Now I'm curious if their claims it would work with YouTube are correct? :)
Youtube re-encoded there videos to format the iPhone (MPEG-4 part 10 or H.264). :wink:
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JellyFish wrote:
d11wtq wrote:Now I'm curious if their claims it would work with YouTube are correct? :)
Youtube re-encoded there videos to format the iPhone (MPEG-4 part 10 or H.264). :wink:
Interesting. I wonder how much Apple paid them for that :)

OK, now I'm curious on another question. Could you carry this thing around in your pocket without feeling like your pants are about to fall down?
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JellyFish wrote:Youtube re-encoded there videos to format the iPhone (MPEG-4 part 10 or H.264). :wink:
Which is sooo wrong. Google and Apple did that on purpose so no one could compete with YouTube on the iPhone.
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d11wtq wrote:OK, now I'm curious on another question. Could you carry this thing around in your pocket without feeling like your pants are about to fall down?
Weight: 135 g (4.8 oz). Or are you talking about people lunching at you knowing you have an iPhone in your pocket?
superdezign wrote:Which is sooo wrong. Google and Apple did that on purpose so no one could compete with YouTube on the iPhone.
Yeah flash and java would have be great on the iphone.
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