A little iPhone lovin’
I haven’t provided any iPhone love in awhile, so a couple little bits have cropped up that may be of interest. First is this comparison of EDGE vs. UMTS - a 3G technology - speeds (in particular it is the iPhone vs. the Nokia E61i) (via). Although it has both a video and a chart it isn’t necessarily the most scientific study I’ve ever seen - but it does show you how the speed difference isn’t that great - it seems like crappy latency has quite an impact on web downloading and while UMTS does seem to beat EDGE the difference in time isn’t much, but the iPhone clearly renders a much more useable page. That’s been my experience, too. Which is not to say that I wouldn’t like to see an iPhone with 3G, I would, but A) I don’t think it’s nearly as big a deal as many have made it out to be and B) I wouldn’t trade my current battery life with EDGE for crappier battery life with 3G. I’m just sayin.
Also check out this piece that looks at how the iPhone is the number 2 smart phone OS in the North American market for it’s debut quarter - and North American obviously includes Mexico and Canada for which the iPhone wasn’t really overly available in that period. Hopefully those numbers are true or close to true, they are certainly believable to me! So it’s already surpassed Windows Mobile and is approaching RIMM’s market share. Let’s not even look at Palm OS, it probably passed their market share in the first weekend or so.
Remember Colligan’s prediction that Apple wasn’t just going to walk in? Compare and contrast - Apple’s iPhone news and Colligan’s conference call news:
Colligan started the call off by expressing his disappointment in not meeting expectations for the quarter saying “we did not execute as well as we needed to.” He pinned most of revenue shortfall on the failure to get the Treo 755p certified and released on Verizon in the quarter. In a latter followup question Colligan said the process was affected by issues with previous devices. He went on to state that due to the Palm OS being an older system somewhat deficient in its multitasking capabilities was some standard network operations issues not visible to end users, which in turn caused a delay in getting the product approved.
disappointment, shortfall, failure, older system, deficient in multitasking, delay. Gosh, I’m glad that Palm has learned so much over the years building pdas and phones! It may take Apple years to figure out how to get there…
While Blackberries are currently running strong - the Canadians have to be sweating about the rumors that Apple’s working on enhanced Exchange compatibility. That’s probably the single biggest barrier for many businesses to adopt it.
On the other hand, Apple should probably stop threatening their 9 year old fans for writing letters to them… Heh! I’m super excited to see what happens with the SDK, I pray but I’m not holding my breath, that it’s an open SDK and everyone can easily get their apps on the iPhone. I’d also love to see a second generation iPhone with the sleeker look of the touch incorporated. I hope it’s an interesting Macworld this January!
December 19th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
The main improvement that I would like to see is and improved camera. Higher pixel count and an image that doesn’t blur at the slightest movement would be nice.
Also, some video capture capability would be nice. My last phone could take video, albeit low resolution.
I’ve already begun to blog using Googles go@blogger.com and attaching a picture. I would love to be able to easily create video blogs in the same manner.
Exciting things CAN be done with this phone. I only hope Apple Inc. recognizes this and implements it intelligently.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Heath, I’m am with you! I would *love* a better camera. I’m happy with this one mostly because I came from a treo and learned the meaning of awful camera’s there. :) I wouldn’t mind video either, although I’m not sure how much I’d use it.
I’m hoping that with the release of the SDK that we’ll find that the camera has some API hooks and we’ll get some photo softs that can do squeeze a little more out the camera - even some basic exposure control would be welcome.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
They should throw in a sensor that shocks you when you are holding the i phone for more than 3 minutes when in a supposed social situation. I am looking at you Howie.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
1) there is already a video capture app out for jailbroke iphones. its just a proof of concept and ive read that apple is working on video with built-in youtube upload capability.
2) isnt RIM austrailan, not canadian? did i misuderstand something
3) my iphone is more interesting than some of my friends. Im looking at you Brian. :)
4) my captcah for this post was “hurt blood.” whaaat?
December 19th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
The should throw in a sensor that shocks howie just for fun. I’d like to see that.
As for Howie’s list:
1) That’d be cool. Just what the world needs a lowered bar for youtube uploading! :)
2) you misunderstood that australia is not the same as canada. turns out, that there are at least several other countries that are not the U.S. of A.
3) no comment, although that rolling marble game is compelling…
4) it’s a warning from the internet to you… watch your back.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
1) when you said “While Blackberries are currently running strong - the Canadians have to be sweating” i thought you meant RIM.
2) the captcha for this post is “last ley” i swear to god. the internets hate me.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Oh, and it’d be nice to have a universal inbox for my email. It’s annoying to have to tap back 3x just to get to another mailbox, then tap forward 3x to read the email. On a side note, gmail needs to jump on board the ‘folder’ wagon so I stop getting all my sent mail as *new* in my iPhone inbox(/rant).
December 19th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
The iPhone in general needs to add some new navigational technique - moving one step at a time through hierarchies is tired. They need some gestural something or other to help navigation… hopefully it’s coming!
As for Gmail - I’m probably going to switch my business’s email to Google Apps, but I haven’t experienced the iPhone with Gmail, yet. You can’t make things get different tags and not show up as new using the filtering? I set up a few filters that prevent a whole bunch of emails from hitting the inbox. But maybe the imap mapping is odd?
December 20th, 2007 at 1:17 am
1) People who list things all the time are annoying.
2) People who list back are funny.
3) There is no 3.
4) I kinda want an I phone now.
5) Howie, why don’t you link us to a picture of how cute your i pod is? I swear it’s got personality, I have personally gone to a bar with it and had drinks. Nice guy.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:18 am
I MEANT i PHONE!!!!! God forsake me I am sorry! I know I will burn in some kind of hot apple pie hell now. i hell or something.