Every call that drops makes my stomach turn, every appointment that I can't sent out invitations for makes my head hurt, and every time some one says they can't hear me when I am on BlueTooth makes my eyes squint.
I heard today the "Executive in charge of the iPhone has left Apple. No surprise there, the iPhone 4 is definitely not "twice the phone at half the price".
There are just four main things the iPhone missed do be a serious business tool, an they are:
1. Decent reception, the cover didn't help and the dropped calls are a headache. I've found at home if I leave the iPhone 4 in the kitchen window on the charger and only use Bluetooth it doesn't drop calls.
2. Invites for the calendar, I mean what kind of nut job doesn't send his wife an invitation to dinner. Do you know how embarrassing it is sitting at my friends restaurant waiting for my wife when she is out with the girls? Thats what happens when she doesn't get my invites. Worse is when I schedule something when she has an appointment that I was supposed to be at. It turns out that not being able to accept her invite is no excuse for not showing up. Invites kept my marriage and work life balanced and now they are gone.
3. Task sync with outlook, ToDo works ok, but it is Bluetooth sync only and requires more steps. If you are any kind of mover and shaker you are probably little too busy for that nonsense. I am sure Mr. Jobs just says "call my people and they'll put it on my calendar."
4. BlueTooth that works. I can hear everyone perfectly, when the phone is correctly placed (see #1). The issue is, I sound garbled to everyone else. This one the "geniuses" at the Apple Store deny even after I showed them dozens of complaints on the Apple forums at Apple.com
While I was in the Apple store I also asked about items 1 through 3 the Apple Genius asked if I used to have a BlackBerry. When I said yes, he suggested it would be better to go back because he didn't know of anything to correct items 1,2 and 4. He did suggest trying ToDo to correct the task sync.
Oh yeah, and how about a little better cursor placement capability while we are fixing things?
Now, in he interest of fairness, if I go to the BlackBerry Torch in a couple of weeks, there are some features of the iPhone 4 I will miss. First among them is the killer screen resolution. This little thing is really nice for viewing videos and photos. I am sure my eye strain, looking at such a small screen so close isn't getting better, but it is fun to look at.
The camera and video capabilities are pretty sweet on the iPhone 4 also. For nearly a month now my digital camera and Flip have collected dust on my desk at home. There is an annoying little bug that blacks out most of the pictures in the preview mode. I had 89 photos last night, and only could see the twenty most recent. I had to go to the slide show to see the rest. I'll live with this in exchange for the picture quality.
The thing I will miss the most is the iPod video capability. Right now I am on the road working, and I downloaded nearly four hours of home study videos and watched them on the airplane and in the airport. I got over the short battery life pretty quickly. I'll gladly trade the time wasted booting up my dual core 64 bit laptop for the time required to hunt down an outlet. Besides the little pose cord weighs a whole lot less than a HP laptop with an 8 cell battery. Don't ask me what I was thinking buying that brick for the road.
If I could just get the unlimited data plan back, I might keep both phones with AT&T. I just got my overage notice for those home study videos. Ouch.
Remember to choose your tools based on how you live, not how other people tell you to be cool.
Where you a BlackBerry user? Did you go back? Let us know why or why not, so we can all make better choices.
Cheers
Scott Bourquin
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