David’s Musings

Everyone who knows me, knows I love my gadgets. I’m an early adopter. I buy stuff, and then something new comes out eight weeks after and I get burnt. However, I’m never going to change, I love the thrill of getting something new and exciting.

My friends and colleagues are scandalised that I won’t be buying an iPhone 3G tomorrow. “Why?” they asked - I’ll tell you why:

• The camera is no better than my Blackberry Curve, in actual fact it’s worse. It’s the same resolution, but there’s no flash
• Battery life. The iPhone battery life will not be great if you use 3G all day. If you switch it off to save battery life, you might as well get the original iPhone and use wifi
• The tariff for a new iPhone 3G is more expensive than the last. If you don’t live in a 3G area, you will still need to pay the 3G network fees
• You cannot send or receive MMSs
• From the home page I can read an email with a spin of the wheel and two clicks - the iPhone is a long navigation route
• I can do multiple selects, deletes, moves, read/unread selections - and shortcut key strokes
• If the room was full of smoke and I needed to call the local fire department or send an email to friends to say my feet were on fire - I could not touch type with the iPhone
• You cannot capture video clips on the iPhone 3G, unless you download some dodgy software
• No spell check on the iPhone
• You cannot copy and paste - this I cannot believe it’s a huge detractor. However, a new phone wouldn’t solve this, but new software would
• You can search your contacts, but you have to type the contact name specifically. The Blackberry lets you make mistakes. On the Blackberry you can do a remote Exchange search - you can’t do that through ActiveSync
• The iPhone might have ActiveSync, but you won’t be syncing your notes and task list anytime soon

Some of these are obviously a little tongue-in-cheek, however I think I will stay with the original iPhone and the new OS 2.0 for now. But for those of you buying, I’m still envious…!