After all of my protesting and rationalizing about how I would not buy an iPhone for now, I went ahead and bought one. I’ll use it as my business phone, with the Blackberry supporting with rapid corporate email, calendar and EVDO modem support.
This is my first cell phone camera, so on my run today I brought the iPhone and stopped a few times to grab some shots. I can’t say that I expect to produce work with it, but as a sketch book, as here, it works well enough. No problems with auto white balance or exposure. I understand it’s fixed focus, so it’s interesting how the foreground tree is well detailed but the background woodpile here doesn’t hold up as an object. This may be due to the low pixel count.
My biggest complaint is that phone number recognition needs improvement. The Blackberry translates foreign numbers perfectly, allowing me to dial numbers wherever they appear- email, calendar appointments, web pages. The iPhone recognizes US numbers on web pages or in mail messages. There’s no recognition in the Calendar App. That means that when I have a telecon, I need to write the number down from the appointment and switch to the phone and dial. Or I can get the web view of my calendar from the Outlook Web Access site and click on the number to dial. If it’s US, but not if it’s international.
Of course this is related to the lack of copy and paste capability. With a simple copy function, I’d be able to move the number into the phone app. I loved the Newton’s clipboard- you’d highlight text and drag it over to the side of the screen where it stuck until you dragged it back in to use it.
But it’s a 1.0 product, and I trust these refinements will come soon enough.
