I haven’t really had problems with the keyboard at all in the emails and urls, since most of urls are searching with google and email addresses are in the address book already.

It took a while to get used to it though.

-Vlad

O2 coverage is spot on for me where ever I work, so thats fine…

However, I am keeping my Samsung i780 – the Blackjacks next gen – that is a great phonne aswell for things that I still need Windows Mobile for
Check out the ‘mouse’ – awesome!

(and I am quite thankful that it comes with Opera as a browser rather than Pocket IE!)

Still got to carry two phones, but oh well…

http://jott.com/jotters/index.php/iphone

I really like Jott as is, and the iPhone app looks really slick.

Chris Green

Don’t get me wrong, iPhone is a glorified, but finely polished, piece of junk when it comes to a lot of things.

But the problem is, Windows Mobile is not much better and on the worse side it’s not as consistent either. IM is hit or miss. Email sync is hit or miss. Server-side search is hit or miss. Software upgrades are pretty much a surgery. It’s not just one problem.

I think this is where Microsoft is bleeding customers. The expectations for Microsoft are so high while the expectations for Apple tend to be on the low side and everything surprises you.

For example, I was working on a ticket on Shockey Monkey while in line for the iPhone. I was using the Blackberry/Smartphone interface on my Blackjack and once I got the iPhone I decided to check in on it. Just for s&g I figured let me hit that ticket link on the bottom of the email – and everything worked as it does on the real computer. The iPhone displayed the full AJAX interface, all the eyecandy, all the functionality and gave me full control of my entire business.

Windows Mobile could NEVER do that, with any browser, with any version up until now. And Windows Mobile has been around since I went to college. iPhone just had it’s first birthday.

-Vlad

Yup, we have had an iPhone for over a week and we have decided to take the two back. Coverage on ATT (voice and data far better on Verizon) was not up to par, keyboard is interesting, problems with not syncing multiple edits to a calendar event notes w/exchange 2k3, no meeting requests, no sort of inbox, no searching of anything, no sync of notes or tasks, etc. We started making comments at http://blog.hltechsolutions.com as I was so disappointed.

I “LOVE” the 3.5” screen, Pandora, AOL Radio and Safari on the iPhone, tho none of these help me in my business so they will go back and will probably get swapped for the iTouch and doing the old one device for business and one for play till the “perfect” device on the “perfect” provider is found. Maybe iPhone when the next level of activesync is implemented and ATT expands. It is getting there but, no way close enough

Coverage where I live is a big issue (limited, and only one provider is worth using) and the iPhone 3G doesn’t match the Nokia N95 in this regard.

The development experience on the Nokia Series 60 platform is far, far better than Windows Mobile. It’s going to be interesting to compare Series 60 dev with iPhone dev.

Stable. Takes pictures too. Sometimes upgrades are overrated.

It’s why stone tablets still just work so well.

I felt the same way. The trick to the iPhone 2 is that the keyboard is so predictive and works so well that you just have to come barely close to what you want to type and it autocorrects.

@Susan:

If Windows Mobile could deliver on being reliable enough for email and communications, I’d still be on it. As for the argument on the general use of it, you got me there. Do the same lawyers and accountants take pictures, take voice notes, appreciate visual voicemail queues, listen to music… Hey, I switched to Apple. You have any idea how big that is?

-Vlad