My First Day with Apple's iPhone

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Anthony Fiti
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Jul. 1, 2007

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Bugs and Issues

I found a few bugs on my first day of testing. First, text area elements (in my particular instance, the text area for many online forums), the magnifying glass that moves the cursor around the document didn't work properly. It seemed like I would have to push my finger on the display outside of the text area to move within the first line of text. Of course, pushing on the page outside of the text area wouldn't activate the magnifying glass, so there is no way to get the magnifying glass with text in it.

Next was that it couldn't connect to Edge for data. This however was fixed when I rebooted the phone (turned it off and on). Edge speeds however, remained in the 50kbit/s range, according to the test at DSLReports.com. Apparently, AT&T's "Fine Edge" project to increase the speeds of the edge network hasn't visited my area yet. However users in major metro areas have shown speeds closer to 200kbit/s, which is entirely reasonable for mobile web browsing (but probably not media streaming).

The night I got the phone, I noticed one peculiar problem with not being able to call the other phone on my family share plan. I had to call my sister on my house line to talk to her. Text messaging wouldn't work either. But by the next morning, I was able to call her phone and text message her without problems.

The biggest non-bug problem I've had with the phone is related to media management in iTunes. Unlike every iPod I've played with, you can't individually manage music and movies on this phone. You're forced to create a playlist and manage the playlist, then have the computer sync that playlist to the phone. It isn't as convenient as being able to manually move songs and movies on and off the phone individually.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Out of the Box
Page 3: iPod, the Internet, and More...
Page 4: Bugs and Issues
Page 5: Overall Initial Impression

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3 User Comments

1 - Posted by MichaelHarper on July 2, 2007 - 3:00 pm

So I was totally ragging on this device, and on the fanboys, and on the hype... until this morning, when i held one. The EDGE network speed sucks balls, but the browser itself is awesome, and the pan/zoom functionality of the multi-touch screen is very intuitive and functional. The soft keyboard was more functional than my T9 phone, but less than some real QWERTYs I've tried. I need to play with the keyboard some more, but I'm leaning towards buying one.

2 - Posted by Brian on July 2, 2007 - 3:54 pm

The thing with the keyboard, from what I have read from people who have used an iPhone longer than one day, say that it gets easier with time. Within a couple weeks, it becomes rather easy to use. So you can't really judge it entirely on your first experience like many people are. Personally though, as I hate typing on anything smaller than a full-size keyboard...

3 - Posted by handrail on July 3, 2007 - 9:26 am

meh. all tiny keyboards suck anyway. i'm sure the iPhone one will be no different than learning to graffiti on a PDA.

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