My opinions of the iPhone 3G.

I know there have been a lack of posts on my blog, and I apologize for that. I’ve had many things on my mind and I’ve been preoccupied with school coming back into session.

In my previous handfull of posts about the new iPhone, I promised I’d post my opinions and views of the new iPhone. So please read on if you wish to hear about my experiences.

I really, really have been enjoying my iPhone for the past month. Always having access to the ACTUAL internet [not that crap cellphone version], mail, and other awesome stuff is so cool. The internet IS very fast.

The app store is also very, very cool. Whenever you’re bored, you can download a new app (there’s a ton of free ones out there for people like me who don’t like to spend money) and be entertained anywhere from 5 minutes (lol lightsaber app) to hours upon hours (Moonlite Mah’jong Lite, BJ Run Lite, Aurora Feint are my personal favorite game apps). Another app that is beyond awesome is called “Shazam”. If you hear a song you really like from the radio or a T.V. show or movie, but you don’t know what song it is, you can run the app and hold your iPhone up to a speaker, and the app will tell you what the song is called, the artist, the album it was on, etc. It is EXTREMELY accurate [I spent at least 30 minutes trying to confuse it with a lot of random songs, but it got every single one].

The only down sides are some things I wasn’t expecting. The iPhone came with a bunch of icons, some of which I don’t really need [stocks app, etc.]. There’s no way to get rid of icons that came with the iPhone without Jailbreaking or something to that effect — WHICH I IN NO WAY CONDONE. Another little problem I wasn’t exactly expecting was that if you want to download a big app [10MB+], you have to connect to a wifi network or download it on your computer and sync it. Somewhat annoying, but the majority of apps aren’t that big.

There are two slightly bigger issues I’ve had, however. Not major, but still pretty aggravating. You cannot access iTunes AT ALL unless you are connected to Wifi. I’d figure that apple would bend over backwards to have iTunes available to anyone, anywhere… but I guess that would kill the 3G network in a matter of minutes. The other issue I’ve had involves Safari. Aside from the fact that the new iPhone STILL doesn’t support flash [BOO ], every once in a while when I go to a web page, the browser will randomly close (I assume that’s a crash), and go back to the home screen. I don’t know if that’s random, or if it’s preventing stuff from being installed (adware, spyware, whatever), or if there’s a script it doesn’t like. However, reopening the browser and refreshing the page seems to load the page without problems. I feel I need to do research on this subject before I say much more, but it seems a bit off.

Aside from those small issues, the iPhone exceeds my expectations. The service costs 30$ extra if you have current plan with AT&T (30$ includes visual voicemail, unlimited internet, email, etc.).

So yea, that’s my opinion of the iPhone. I hope to keep this blog alive, so I’ll try to post more stuff, whether it be game reviews, album reviews, or whatever.

~ by zephean on August 14, 2008.