Comments on: Apple iPhone 3G and MobileMe – First impressions

By: Root

Root — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:32:10 +0000

Steve, Jeremy and Mark – maybe check the facts before posting? For business users the iPhone has free push via Exhcange. If your firm is one of the few not using Exchange servers, Zimbra, Communigate and a flock of the other major mail/collaboration server providers are adding, or in the case of Communigate/Stalker, have already added push for iPhone as a server feature.

And for ‘private’ push, of course you don’t have to change your email address to use the Me.com features, don’t be so silly.

Actually, it’s a bit like the opposite: This page comes up as the second Google hit for a search on how to use Me.com push for another email account… Tihi…

By: coco

coco — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:07:37 +0000

Sure the battery on iPhone 3G is not that great, but what can we do? We want small size phones, powerful features and lengthy battery life.

Just get a backup battery. I got mine from iPhoneck brands. Their new 3G backup battery is probably one of the better looking products in the market. Their website is http://www.iphoneck.com

By: Dimeon

Dimeon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:41:31 +0000

I have a friend who is pro Mac, although he is a bit indecisive on buying a Mac due to the high price tag. I’ve used a Mac with Leopard on it. I’m a tech guy who’s quite computer competent. I cannot quite seem to understand why people are so mind-numbingly crazy over Apple this and Apple that products. I have an iPod, and absolutely hate the way iTunes works on Windows. I’ve used iTunes on a Mac, and yes, it does open faster, but I just hate the way it works. I would not go buy a Mac just get a faster response to opening iTunes. And what’s this whole business of iTunes not letting you copy/move your music off of your iPod back to your computer? Shouldn’t be able to do anything you want with the music you’ve purchased? Sharepod does everything that iTunes does, and more, including moving/copying music to your computer. Everyone is in such a frenzy over the new iPhone3g. For what? A device which is nothing more than a PDA or handheld notebook computer. $500? Are you crazy? Gas is $4/gal, people are losing their homes to foreclosure, our mainstream industries are outsourcing like crazy, and people are just going nuts for overpriced hardware. As I mentioned, I’ve used a Mac, and quite frankly, I don’t want Apple or Steve Jobs telling me how deep the rabbit hole is or that my computer should work the way they think it should. They preach anti-Microsoft crap at ever Mac World shindig, but go grab a copy of Leopard and throw it on whatever hardware you can round up and see how “The World’s Most Advanced Operating System” “just works”. It doesn’t. You have to pay $3k, for the “Genuine Apple Experience” of being able to do only as much as Apple says, or you’re violation of some fine print in the EULA then your crap get’s iBricked!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:19:53 +0000

Windows mobile phones have free push email from SEVEN, which has contracted with the big three (gmail, hotmail,. yahoo) to provide instant relaying, pushed directly to your phone, using the stock outlook mobile. You can also push from any email account but it’s not instant, taking a few minutes for the relay to come in to their servers. Free, reliable, and no need to create a new email, which I’d say majority of users would find distasteful to do.

By: blob

blob — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:50:12 +0000

WTF? My Blackberry Curve has push email for ANY existing email account. And, it is free of charge. Is Apple insane? To charge $99 for a quirky service that their competition (Blackberry) includes for FREE?

iPhone is an amazing piece of technology. But, the service continues to lag behind the Blackberry in many aspects.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:54:09 +0000

As a business user, it is very difficult to use the mobile me push email. Blackberry’s push allowed my work email address to appear automatically as the return address when I sent or replied from the phone. While it is easy to have my work email forward to my @me.com, and therefore push to my iPhone, there is no real way to reply without it coming from the @me.com address which I cannot use professionally.

Hopefully a fix will come!

By: Jojowasaman

Jojowasaman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:19:54 +0000

Seriously, I don’t get you people who hate mac users. Why? What do you care if I actually get some joy from using macs and nothing but frustration when dealing with Vista? Am I forcing you to use apple products? For that matter, did anyone force you to look at the articles about apple products? Just buy what you think is better and shut up. Geez.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:15:53 +0000

Sebhelyesfarku, while I’m not a fan of the iPhone myself your comments only make you look stupid rather than having any actual negative impact on people who buy or own iPhones.

By: Steve Litchfield

Steve Litchfield — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:30:41 +0000

A-GPS, or Assisted GPS, is GPS *plus* quicker locks due to downloaded satellite position data – see my feature on this at http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/The_future_of_GPS-equipped_smartphones.php

By: Sebhelyesfarku

Sebhelyesfarku — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:33:34 +0000

The iPhone is for dumbass Mactards and gullible fashion lemmings.

By: Will Park

Will Park — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:48:52 +0000

Mark, I agree. Unless Apple has plans to make their push data service more than just a fancy push email service with some wonky push calendar, picture, and contacts support (although, to be fair, contacts do push after a considerable lag), MobileMe is a definite let-down.

Of course you can jury rig your other email accounts to use me.com as their IMAP email server, but not all services support such a setup.

I love push email. I plan to use my @me email address as much as possible. But, if Apple doesn’t get their other push services up to par, I’m not going to pay another $70 (discounted price with iPhone 3G purchase) for MobileMe, let alont the $99 they are asking at retail price.

Still, I do love me some iPhone 3G.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:12:56 +0000

You forgot to point out that unless you already have, or are planning on changing your email to one that ends in @me.com all the ‘push’ features are pretty much useless.

Apple forgot to mention in their incessant marketing that they were planning on taking an iron curtain approach to allowing other email accounts (gmail, hotmail, etc.) to be pushed. You can do all sorts of jerry rigging that would take too long to explain here and get things to ‘kinda’ work, but all the trouble is hardly worth a hundred bucks a year.

By: Will Park

Will Park — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:32:30 +0000

As the title says – first impression. If I were to talk about details like saving pictures from the web, I would have posted in more depth – a proper review of sorts.

And quite frankly (and not to be inflammatory), comparing the iPhone to the N95 is getting old. Yes these features are not new to the N95. If you need fantastic hardware go with the N95,… If style, user experience and a decent grab bag of features is more your style, then get an iPhone. But please, no one is comparing the N95 to the iPhone anymore – game over, it’s old news.

agps is cellular assisted gps – it is not cellular triangulation alone

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:56:30 +0000

So I’m getting confused from various reports…a lot of places are reporting that the iPhone 3G has GPS and then others are reporting that it has aGPS (which is basically location finding based on cell tower reception). Which does it really have?

As for me, once they add A2DP to it I think I might break down and actually buy an Apple product. Until then, I’m staying with my Touch Cruise.

By: JonnyBruha

JonnyBruha — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:36:25 +0000

So… it’s a hit for adding all of the features the N95-3 had back when it was released in October?

Despite your huge attention to detail for the physical changes, you didn’t mention anything about saving images in the web browser. Did you not notice this yet?