Alexander Reppel from iPhoneStudies sent me this message. . .
I am interested in your personal iPhone story - what you think about the device, how you use it and how you feel about it. Emotional and technical issues are equally interesting to me.
If you’re interested, jump in and give Alexander your thoughts.
The iPhone has changes the way I do business… no really, it has. I am the founder of a small web design and media company. I have to continuously keep in touch with my clients and their web sites. My day job requires me to wonder some of the most remote places here in the state of Michigan. The Safaris browser, great SMS implementation and email clients on the iPhone keep me connected like never before. The pervasiveness of AT&T’s edge network allows me to use all these features in areas where I would have never dreamed possible. There is a lot of power in having a real web browser that can be accessed any time and from almost anywhere.
I have only had my iPhone a couple of days (after the price drop) and love it so far. I have used a Blackberry for work for the past year, and get much more enjoyment out of the iPhone. The full browser is awesome. I used to have a small (10″) laptop sitting around the house that I would use as an internet access device, now I just use the phone and it works great. I also love the caller images when I get a call on the phone. With most phones the images are small and sometimes hard to see, the caller ID images on the iPhone are huge and easy to quickly make out. One of the problems I have with the iPhone is rotating it from portrait to landscape. I find that sometimes my rotations are not registered and I cannot get from one view to the other. This seems to happen primarily in Safari.
I am an “early adopter” and from day one have been completely satisfied with this phone. I was amazed at how instantly it integrated itself into my digital lifestyle and became an asset I simply could not live without.
I am constantly on the road or away from my computer and the iPhone allows me to to take my Mac w/ me wherever I go. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found myself needing vital information and simply whipped out the iPhone and did a quick Google search to get the answers I needed on the spot. The email is GREAT (although I would like to see some SPAM filtering and the ability to rotate the keyboard) and I have gotten progressively faster using the on-screen keyboard.
I am not at all pleased w/ the iPhone price cut, but I guess that is the price we pay for our burning desire to be the first kid on the block with a shiny new iPhone…
The most exiting feature of the iPhone is not yet available. Imagine giving your 70 year old mother a iPhone with 4 custom buttons on it:
1 Opening pictures of the grand kids.
2 911
3 Your iPhone number
4 Calendar when the next card game is, or reminder to take medication(2 red and one yellow).. get the idea.
We use this powerful device every day ,but it might also be a super easy to use device one day, because you are not locked into a set number of buttons and functions.