iLove my iPhone
I’ve intended to do a post about the iPhone before I ever had one, but have always put it off. Well with the new release being announced and the new software update soon scheduled I guess now is as good a time as any. I also seem to have a few more thoughts about it all now to share as well. First the title of the post says it all, I do love my iPhone! :) I do love gadgets and from the moment the iPhone came into being, I wanted one. I could never justify spending that much money for one though. Still think it was overpriced to begin with, but they did soon drop the price from its debut of $599 to $499, but it was still out of my reach. Well this past January I got one of the best birthday presents ever when my daughter and son inlaw Tracey and James got me one!! I’m sure most have seen one or how they work. And they do live up to the hype in my opinion. Could they be improved? definitely! I was a bit disappointed to realise you couldn’t take a video on them, nor is MMS supported, and there isn’t even a basic audio recording ability built in! I maybe can understand the video capability and MMS being left out, but no audio notes? It’s a phone for Pete’s sake, you speak into it! How can you not be able to record your voice? Well these things missing aside I still love it and it does perform well, a nice email client, GREAT touch keyboard, a nice camera, a Safari web browser that views actual web pages instead of a mobile version (you can still choose mobile versions of most sites too if you want, but I like the real view), and a YouTube video playe built in as well. Along with all this it’s an iPod as well storing your audio and videos by way of iTunes. Over all the most impressive thing is its ease and simplicity of use. Oh and it’s a phone too, ;) I just like it, a lot! :)
Today they announced the release of the new iPhone, a blazing 3G version, which has been long awaited, especially those in other countries that are having access to this higher speed standard. It’s really only available here in the States in selected large metropolitan areas, which Currituck County ain’t! ;) Well i’m not really so interested in that so I’m not wanting to run out and upgrade this one I have. And I think that most of the new software available on the new ones I will be able to get anyway when they release the 2.0 software version in early July. (It was scheduled for today, hence my reason for having the iPhone on my mind) The Apple site has a preview of the new goodies, but sadly I dont see any reference to any of the ones I was thinking were lacking in the original being included in this upgrade. :( but that’s yet to be seen. They are also opening an Apps Store where you can get programs to download to your phone, costs ranging from Free to $9.99. well there’s where we will see what cool things we can look forward to, maybe even an audio recorder :) well that’s to be seen in July too. I’m excited though and can’t wait to have a look. The only thing that didnt set so weel with me was the price of the new iPhone.. $199 for the 8GB version and $299 for the 16GB one. well yes its a lot cheaper than anyone expected, and I’m sure there will be more fanfare and clamor when they go on sale than was the original! Ohdon;t get me wrong, I am truly happy for someone getting it 200 dollars cheaper than what this one was!! I just wish mine was that price!! bet my daughter does too! lol
Well while I’m writing this I may as well add a wish list of things I would like to see at some point with all these upgrades.
- Video recording
- MMS capability
- Audio notes
- Copy and paste
- Landscape mode in Text
- Forward in Text
- Save pictures from a website
Well its not hurting to wish is it. I have already seen some nice upgrades in the latest relase and the ones promised in version 2.0 look great as well. Let’s see what July 13th brings :)
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