My Shiny New iPhone / Chick Magnet

Saturday, June 30th, 2007 | Helpful, Life

Ok so I get it home.   The box… it’s damn sexy.   This is the sexiest box I have ever seen.  I don’t even know what the box is made of but I believe it is some kind of composite plastic.  It’s built like a rock… a sexy rock….

The phone can’t be used until it is activated.  So I turn on iTunes and it crashes… Go Figure.  So I go and download the new version which is what I figured it wanted me to despite not saying so.  Now it worked and I was able to go through the activation.  I had to laugh because before I was even done with the setup and giving Apple my billing information I got a phone call on it which kind of creeped me out since I did not want to disconnect it from the cradel to answer it but the cord was to far away not to.  I caved and did so.

At the end it said it could sync bookmarks and contacts from my programs.  However it would not let me pull bookmarks from Firefox (only Internet Explorer and Safari).  That seemed dumb since safari was able to pull bookmarks from Firefox and they use basically the same system to save bookmarks… oh well, I will pull the safari bookmarks. 

Then I wanted it to pull my contact data from Thunderbird or the address book associated with it.  But alas, no dice.  I could use the windows address book or Microsoft Outlook.  Since there was no way to just copy my phone book from my old phone at this time I decided that I would not be beaten and I opened up the Outlook 2007 I just happened to have laying around unused that had my address book and calendar in it though it had not been updated in the last year. 

It took me forEVER to update my contacts.  I mean I had to delete about 100 people that were in my address book that I would not ever contact again and add phone numbers for people that I only had email addresses for.  Also I had to add everybody that I knew in Arizona since they were not in my address book yet.  I don’t know how long I spent at this but it was probably nearly 2 hours.  I finally got the phone to sync all that data and I was damn happy to leave and go to Olive Garden for some nice food. 

The A/C was like a snow machine inside of Olive Garden which I was not to fond of, but whatever… bring on the food… At this time my friend Rob was playing with my phone and as the waitress came over she was like “wow is that one of those new phones???” and then right after her another lady who was brining us water was like “whoa, isn’t that one of those new phones….”.  Yep, I said.  Then the one lady was like “didn’t I see you on TV?”.  To which I was honest and said that it was doubtful, though I thought about it again and decided that if asked that question again I would say yes, since people would prefer to be right and I would prefer to be on TV.  : )

I needed to stop at the grocery store on the way home and pick up a couple things.  While waiting in line for the girl to scan my items I decided to play with my iPhone to which she said “whoa… isn’t that one of those new phones?”… Yes, yes it is… In the commotion she somehow managed to take my $1.79 roast beef and instead charge me -$1.79.  Yes if you didn’t notice that it was a negative symbol.  I wasn’t buying much but at the end she told me I had saved $1.79 ; )

Yes, this phone seemed at this point at least to have magical powers.  So I decided the best thing to do would be to go out to a club.  My friend was playing a gig at midnight and I had missed his last show because of being raped (money wise…. sigh…) by the girls at the Tilted Kilt. 

I sent him a message and was playing with my phone.  It took him 30 minutes to respond and by that time I was dead exhausted from sitting around in the heat all day.  I was still going to go until he gave me an out and said there was no need and he had another gig coming up soon.

I am sure I will hear about how many sexy women there were there and how they would have all wanted me for my iPhone when I talk to him next };->~

Good / Bad / Ugly

Ok so in tooling around the web I have noticed a lot of things that don’t work.  My site for example loads and looks beautiful but it seems to have some kind of layering issue because I cannot click ANYTHING on EITHER of my designs.  Which really sucks since with my vertical artwork the site looks badass in the vertical view and I don’t have to rotate the phone to use it in theory. 

Ok so beyond the fact that the best site on the net doesn’t work ;)  Neither does Flash or Java Applets…. Um…. Flash if #$^&%!* HUGE these days.  That will NEED to change for the good of all mankind (the elite people of mankind who own iPhones). 

The next thing that upset me is that despite me loading it up with mp3’s from iTunes (which is a pain in the ass when you have to actually use iTunes since I cannot let it automatically sync my music since I have 450 gigs of it Vs. the 8gigs on the entire iPhone.  You have to do some real bullshit just to move songs over.  I mean COME ON APPLE have you ever heard of drag / drop?????  Now as I was saying I got the mp3’s on and then…. I couldn’t use ANY of them as a ringtone!?!?!?  This means that apple is going to do some kind of bullshit where we have to buy ringtones.  I know, somebody will figure out a way to bypass this once they make a system for it, however they have yet to make a system for adding ringtones so at this point I am SOL and am stuck with their lame choices.  Grr…

The keyboard is a pain in the ass but that’s just because I have fat fingers.  If I would have traded my hands in for some little Japanese fingers it would of been fantastical.  It is however nice that if you go to far to one side that you can just slide your finger over to get the correct letter.

The Youtube integration is kind of cool, however again.  It’s NOT flash so that means you can only watch the videos that they have specifically re-encoded to be mp4s, which is NOT a huge amount at this point. 

I love the alarm clock, but again I NEED MORE RINGTONES since theirs suck.  The alarm lets me tell it which days to reoccur so I will no long have to disable and re-enable my alarm for days off.

The Google Maps is cool and useful and also the transition from using AT&T’s EDGE Network to WiFi works pretty well as well.  As soon as it sees that you can get a better strength connection on an open network it tells you and gives you the option to switch. 

The call clarity is beautiful and I like the earbuds with the little button to click to switch tracks etc..

The camera is really nice… I would take a picture of itself but you would only see the ass-end in the mirror and that would suck.  Perhaps I will use somebody’s digital camera to take a picture of the phone and the sexy box…

I am a little annoyed that at launch they don’t have any games in the iTunes store or even any ringtones.  If they had simply taken the games they had and made them work on the iPhone I would of spent another $4.99 to buy Bejeweled or something since the screen is gorgeous and I can’t play flash/java games online ;(

All in all the iPhone is amazing, but they could really stand to make some firmware updates to make it less crippled.  Flash would take this thing a HUGE distance and uncripping it so that you can use music you already own on it would make hordes of people happy. 

               

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