Yet Another iPhone Post - My 1st Impressions on v2
Posted by Chris Leckness on 07/11/08 in iPhone
Here are some random thoughts and mutterings after a day of heavy use. I charged my rarely used Gen 1 iPhone overnight and pulled it off it’s charger today at about 8am. Since then, I have average 40 minutes of use per hour. I have been fiddling with Twitterific, Facebook, the App Store, made a few calls, and some games. About 2pm, I got an alert stating that I was at 20% Battery Life. I snapped a screenshot at 2:23pm. Look at my battery indicator. Yikes.
- I am very impressed with the Exchange Server support. Very impressed.
- The app store is really cool, but there are a lot of stupid applications in there. Matt Miller asks the question, why do we need 10 Tip Calculators in there? I agree. Why?
- I had an issue with some lag. It was real bad this morning. I did a reset and now it’s a little better, but still slower than it was before I put 2.0 on it.
- Holdem Poker crashed 2-3 times, but it’s addicting as hell for me. I love poker.
- Paypal App - Simple and to the point.
- Twitterific - Awesome
That’s about it. i am very disappointed in my battery life, but I am going to chalk that up to Push Email. I am gonna have to buy a mobile charger.
UPDATE: 4pm, Battery Died.
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Wait a second … Now I fully understand the battery thing. No issue there.
BUT - wasn’t one of the biggest complaints about the first iPhone software that you had no choice in applications? Wasn’t that one of the many arguing points about it … there wasn’t any 3rd party apps. Now that there is third party apps - the first complaint is that there’s too many duplicates? Have you looked around Windows Mobile softwares? There’s like 100 of everything!
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It’s not the dupes that bother me, it’s the amount of stupid apps like the tip calcs. They should separate the store into Paid Apps with sub cats Stupid apps and premium apps. :)
Yes, 3rd party app support was a complaint. Time will tell if Devs making iPhone apps will put out some nice apps.
My “biggest complaint” with the iPhone initially was Exchange Support, not apps. They nailed Exchange support this go around. I am quite pleased.
I agree there’s a lot of “dumb” apps out there right now - but as time goes on and some of the big guys get added to the store - like Alex Kac @ Webis and Ilium - the quality will definitely improve.
Glad exchange is working out … I wish I still had one to connect to just to give it a go, but I think I’ll just settle for using MobileMe and see how that pans out.
Would you say the battery life is any worse than other phones with push?
Apple’s published “talk time” is 5 hours which is pretty similar to or better than many Windows Mobile smart phones. Even the Blackberry Bold is rumored to be taking a battery life hit for 3G.
Ways to make the battery on the iPhone run down.
1. Use the Edge network for long periods of time (3G will be even worse)
2. Push email (change it to Fetch in the settings and it will increase the battery life). Yahoo was killing my wife’s iPhone until she changed it from push.
3. Stop using it while you are sitting on the toilet.
Battery life is pretty much as everybody expected with 3G. Remember Apple’s excuse for no 3G on 1st gen iPhones? It was the battery life.
I have to say I’m impressed with the number of apps/games they released on the very first day. I agree that there are a lot of crappy software there but those will always be there for any platform. I think given the hardware capabilities of the iPhone/ipod touch, we will see some pretty amazing apps/games within the next 8 to 12 months.