I love my iPhone lol. Everything is so esay on it. And this is coming form someone who has owned 6 HTC phones and 1 UIQ device in the last year.
It trumps them all for me. But this is me. When there is a reason to jailbreak it, I will. I haven't yet because I'm on O2, so don't need it unlocked, and because there are no launchers or apps for 2.0 yet so...
But I am finding it hard to find fault with it, and I'm sure an upgrade to the 3G one will come when the price is more like £300 - £350 rather than £450 - £500.
That said, I do love the way on all my WM phones, I could download any one of a million cabs and it would probably work, no such luck with my iPhone. The google app is great but is basically just links to the web versions of things. Apple remote for itunes won't work properly, Carling's iPint is funny but lasts about 2 minutes as a game, and all the rest of the good apps cost, and I'm not prepared to pay.
Jailbreaking will probably bring pirated apps I guess.

But one last thing, no matter what I've seen anyone do on wm to wmulate the iPhone, nothing comes close to it's smoothness. But it does have a Diamond-like lag in that it loads the background to the app, then about a second later the rest of it. Similar to the diamond loading tabs from what I've seen.
Anyways, I'm not some iPhone fanboy as you can probably see from my join date and post count (although a bunch of my posts are, I will admit, pretty useless) So don't come over here flaming me for foriming aa balanced opinion.
Rory

(taken directly from a post by me on XDA-Developers My User Link)
Ok, so what didn't i say up there...
Oh yeah the iPod is absolutely f**king amazing
So easy to use, so much easier than a scroll wheel, and plays about twice as loud as my iPod nano 2G (the one that looks like a shrunken iPod mini) because that had a volume limit.
It was annoying at first that it had a recessed headphone jack, because it meant that I couldn't use my Shure headphones, but it's ok, because i've gotten used to the included headphones, and they do have a pretty good range of sound, and as they're so loud, there is no need for them to e sound isolating like my Shure's and previously my Sennheiser CX300's.
The web is amazing, and having used opera 9.5 from the very early betas, I can safely say that opera should be sued for sopyright infringement. Every single thing on the iPhone is copied by Opera. But I guess apple are happy that peopple love their browser so much that competitors (kind of anyway) just rip it off.
I also love the mail app, its easy to useworks perfectly with fingers, and well ust works. Although sometimes it doesn't say I've read stuff wehn I ave, but I'll forget that.
Earlier today, i began putting in last names for a few of my contacts so I could differentiate between them, and I ended up doing all of them ebcause it ws so easy. I actually enjoyed editing contacts.
Then there's stocks, I'm not a broker, but I follow my BB.L stock and today finally found out that it was higher than the price theyre selling me extra stock at. (my stock was at about 500p a share 18 months ago, 180 in may, and plummeted to 31p at the beginning of july, so I'm glad to see it on the rise.) And B&B have been offering to sell me extra shares at 55P for ages, while the actual price was way below that, idiots)
Back to my iPhone
The camera takes great pictures, and takes them very quickly too.
The app store is great, but doesnt have much I want on it, but there are some good proof of concepts like iMaze, basically a rip off of teeter on the Diamond with no holes. But it doesn't interpret small movements at all, so needs loads of improvement.
Feel free to ask questions, and look forward to my upcomign review of my Acer Aspire One. Which should have pictures of both Vista and OS X leopard running on it.
Rory

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:28 WEST | Category: Rory's Technology
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