Windows Mobile to iPhone 3G - First Impressions
December 1st, 2008 |
So I have had the douche phone for almost 3 days now.
What I like so far:
- The operating system is a total slam dunk. Application fire up almost immediately. None of the annoying delay so common with my HTC TyTn II. I don’t have to figure out how or where to install applications and performance has been predicable. More than I can say for WinMo devices.
- Call quality is without problem, something I heard was an issue with the previous iPhone version.
- Applications are easy to find and download via iTunes. I wonder if Apple would have used a different name for this software if they knew what it would eventually be used for.
- The screen is amazing. Much better touch control than my HTC devices.
- Safari browser. Far better than the mobile version of Internet Explorer on WinMo and better than any of the alternative browsers I tested on WinMo.
What I don’t like:
- Keyboard. Coming from a device with an actual build in keyboard, going to a device with an on screen keyboard is difficult. There is pretty much no way I can write a long e-mail with this thing.
- Battery life. I can’t get a full day of use out of this thing without having to plug in. I thought the battery was bad on WinMo phones but this is worse.
- E-mail. It works fine as far as synching with my various mail servers, but the actual software is cumbersome to navigate. With Windows Mobile you could select the mail server you wanted to check and it would dump you right into the inbox for that server. With the iPhone you have to back out of the inbox of the current mail server all the way to the e-mail selection list before moving forward to the new e-mail server and then to the inbox of that server. Not too clean. I also don’t like the fact that you can’t have custom signatures for each e-mail server. You only get one. That’s kinda lame.
- No cut, copy or paste. It may not sound like a big deal but I used this feature quite a bit on Windows Mobile. If you want to copy some text from a website or an e-mail and save it as a note, sorry - no go. Maybe Apple will update their OS with this feature at some point. It’s really a no brainer. Cut, copy, paste has been a feature of word processing since the early 1980’s. It’s absurd that this is not a feature on the iPhone.
Everything else so far seems so good. Exchange synchronization is working just fine. I seem to blow through these devices every year or two so I am sure that I will be looking to dump this thing once the next best thing comes along.
18 Responses to “Windows Mobile to iPhone 3G - First Impressions”
Safari:
By far the best browser out there.
Keyboard:
My kid likes it because he didn’t have keys before. Takes some getting used to. Won’t get loaded with dirt.
Cut, Copy, Paste:
Really stupid. A lot of chatter on the forums about the lack of it. Will be fixed soon, I’m guessing.
Sync:
EVERYBODY had problems with MobileMe early on, but it’s pretty much fixed now, and a lot of 3rd party apps use it.
douche`
Smithers, Push eats a ton of battery life - if you can live with getting your emails a few minutes later turn it off. Check it manually or set it at one of the other preset intervals. That should get you through the day with battery life to spare. Also turning off the 3G connectivity and letting it run on Edge or WiFi will increase your times also.
Welcome to Douche Phone be sure to update to 2.2 if you haven’t already.
The battery life has gotten MUCH better on my douche phone after 2 weeks of use. I’m not sure if it was turning on the “Auto-brightness” or turning off the GPS, or the battery breaking in after charging cycles, but I can now go a full day on the phone and still have half a battery meter to go.
I can conserve a ton more if I turn push e-mail off and switch to only checking every 30 min.
Turn off Bluetooth as well if you don’t need it. Ever since I got a iQua Vizor my battery had been running out a lot more frequently, till I figured out it was because I was leaving the Bluetooth on.
Time for an upgrade already
http://www.pomegranatephone.com/
holy crap…
i am surrounded by douche bags.
i mean, i kinda suspected, but knowing for certian is a little unsettling.
@(dis): i am surrounded by douche bags.
Switching teams then?
Cyber Cop without a bluetooth?
Huh?
More stuff I don’t like:
- No shortcut to access network status in order to quickly enable/disable bluetooth, GPS, WiFi.
- No way to invite contacts to attend meetings. WTFH!? Is this a business tool or not?
No way to invite contacts to attend meetings
about that.
i won’t show up if there aren’t doughnuts.
@(dis): understood.
BTW, you are now in charge of bringing donuts to all meetings. Congratulations on your new responsibility.
one donut to each meeting.
check.
If your anything like my roommate the phone will distract you for business as you are showing every one the cool apps you search for day and night.
- No way to invite contacts to attend meetings. WTFH!? Is this a business tool or not?
Not. Tried to tell you that.
Who invited Kruse?
Pomegranate phone - that was hillarious -
My favorite part was the harmonica . . .
@Morgan: like my iDrumKit?