After Ten Days with an iPhone
It’s been about ten days since my wife and I bought iPhones. We are still loving them and have no regrets about the time or money we have spent to buy them.
Yesterday was my first day back at work since the purchase. What surprised me was how enthralled even the nay-sayers were with the device. A friend of mine who uses a Treo considers the iPhone a “step-up”.
That said, I’ve been using it enough to develop two small peeves with it.
The first is the limited amount of ringtones. I’d like to be able to take a song snippet from a recent motion picture and use that. There is currently no way to add any ringtones to the phone, something I suspect Apple will cure by providing more you can download. But if the phone could use any AIFF, AAC, or MP3 file, that would be even better.
The second is the phone’s volume which gets a bit low when listening to a call. The phone automatically lowers the call volume when you bring the phone up to your face and sometimes does a little too much. The volume is adequate for listening to call in a fairly quiet area but requires concentrated listening in a standard business setting or a busy restaurant. I’d like for Apple to turn the volume up a notch more.
All the talk on the Internet about the device’s battery life does have me paying a little closer attention to how I manage it than I do with my iPod. Yes, it would have been much better if Apple had used a user-changeable battery; but it really doesn’t bother me too much they didn’t. Someone will come up with external battery packs you can use to extend the iPhone’s talk or play time as well as skirt the internal battery issue before too long, so I really don’t think that issue is going to be huge. I don’t feel the lawsuit against Apple claiming that knowledge of the battery issue would have turned off buyers has a lot of merit because the issue was discussed on various websites days before the iPhone’s release. I also don’t think that us early buyers cared much if the problem did exist; I doubt if there’s one person who stood in line with me who also would have stepped out knowing how Apple was going to manage it. This is the kind of lawsuit that might have some legs later in the device’s history when a majority of users lost use of the device before the expiration of this first AT&T contract period. Even so, it seems to me to be one of those attempts by someone to use the courts to redesign the iPhone, when the truth is that no one’s forcing anyone to buy the device in the first place.
Yesterday was my first day back at work since the purchase. What surprised me was how enthralled even the nay-sayers were with the device. A friend of mine who uses a Treo considers the iPhone a “step-up”.
That said, I’ve been using it enough to develop two small peeves with it.
The first is the limited amount of ringtones. I’d like to be able to take a song snippet from a recent motion picture and use that. There is currently no way to add any ringtones to the phone, something I suspect Apple will cure by providing more you can download. But if the phone could use any AIFF, AAC, or MP3 file, that would be even better.
The second is the phone’s volume which gets a bit low when listening to a call. The phone automatically lowers the call volume when you bring the phone up to your face and sometimes does a little too much. The volume is adequate for listening to call in a fairly quiet area but requires concentrated listening in a standard business setting or a busy restaurant. I’d like for Apple to turn the volume up a notch more.
All the talk on the Internet about the device’s battery life does have me paying a little closer attention to how I manage it than I do with my iPod. Yes, it would have been much better if Apple had used a user-changeable battery; but it really doesn’t bother me too much they didn’t. Someone will come up with external battery packs you can use to extend the iPhone’s talk or play time as well as skirt the internal battery issue before too long, so I really don’t think that issue is going to be huge. I don’t feel the lawsuit against Apple claiming that knowledge of the battery issue would have turned off buyers has a lot of merit because the issue was discussed on various websites days before the iPhone’s release. I also don’t think that us early buyers cared much if the problem did exist; I doubt if there’s one person who stood in line with me who also would have stepped out knowing how Apple was going to manage it. This is the kind of lawsuit that might have some legs later in the device’s history when a majority of users lost use of the device before the expiration of this first AT&T contract period. Even so, it seems to me to be one of those attempts by someone to use the courts to redesign the iPhone, when the truth is that no one’s forcing anyone to buy the device in the first place.
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