http://sawdustandglitter.com/2007/09/the-itunes-iphone-ordeal-episode-2.html Musings on Design, UX and Architecture by a Muse Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://sawdustandglitter.com/2007/09/the-itunes-iphone-ordeal-episode-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-62 Anonymous Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:05:00 +0000 http://arkidect.net/blog/?p=21#comment-62 The calendar took three syncs to get it right. In fact, I can never tell if iTunes had ever attempted copying anything to my phone. Meanwhile, the iPhone experience has been not too bad so far. I was able to browse web pages, set up my contacts and wallpapers, and so on. The novelty factor does wear off pretty quickly though, however. There are a few annoyances so far: It takes quite a while to find the contact I want to dial to. Since it does not have a dialpad-based contact search like Windows Mobile does, I have to remember everyone's last names in other to find them. I have 100+ contacts, and even though I have a good memory of last names, it is much slower to find a contact here than in my WinMo. Besides, it takes too many steps to get into the dialpad, since there is no hardware dialpad anywhere. The squeezing and un-squeezing finger actions is not very accurate. While it works fine for casual browsing of photos, the finger flicking makes it too easy to jump around Google Maps accidentally, and wastes bandwidth and loading time as a result. The mail application marks everything from my mailboxes as unread. Worse still, there is no way to mark all mail as unread. Gmail is treated as a POP3 mailbox. And I don't understand why mails that I wrote would end up in my Inbox. There is no easy way to sync Notes. There are no voice recorder software available. So my iPhone refund countdown has officially begun... It will properly be due this Thursday. It is going to be a lot of hassles, dealing with the Apple store refund and the AT&T switching back process, but it probably will worth all the headaches I will get by using iTunes. The calendar took three syncs to get it right. In fact, I can never tell if iTunes had ever attempted copying anything to my phone. Meanwhile, the iPhone experience has been not too bad so far. I was able to browse web pages, set up my contacts and wallpapers, and so on. The novelty factor does wear off pretty quickly though, however. There are a few annoyances so far: It takes quite a while to find the contact I want to dial to. Since it does not have a dialpad-based contact search like Windows Mobile does, I have to remember everyone’s last names in other to find them. I have 100+ contacts, and even though I have a good memory of last names, it is much slower to find a contact here than in my WinMo. Besides, it takes too many steps to get into the dialpad, since there is no hardware dialpad anywhere. The squeezing and un-squeezing finger actions is not very accurate. While it works fine for casual browsing of photos, the finger flicking makes it too easy to jump around Google Maps accidentally, and wastes bandwidth and loading time as a result. The mail application marks everything from my mailboxes as unread. Worse still, there is no way to mark all mail as unread. Gmail is treated as a POP3 mailbox. And I don’t understand why mails that I wrote would end up in my Inbox. There is no easy way to sync Notes. There are no voice recorder software available. So my iPhone refund countdown has officially begun… It will properly be due this Thursday. It is going to be a lot of hassles, dealing with the Apple store refund and the AT&T switching back process, but it probably will worth all the headaches I will get by using iTunes.

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