Some of you may know that I’ve been having myriad problems with my iPhone 3G, mostly around rapidly deteriorating battery life and inability to restore from backup. Today, Apple released the new 2.1 firmware, and it’s broken my Exchange integration. Right now, I have no calendar, no contacts and no email — the unit is [...]
I’ve been the proud, delighted owner of my 16MB white iPhone 3G for a week now. I love it. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its drawbacks. And I find that many of my complaints are around the absence of functionality I had on my BlackBerry Pearl. Following my first impressions, here’s what Apple [...]
Here’s what I’m loving so far: Evernote — This is a pre-existing capture-organize-search application new to me. Take notes, photos, voice notes. Among the many potential uses, I’m taking photos of random scraps of paper I’ve had lying around, tagging them for Evernote and then tossing ‘em. Love it. WritingPad — You’ve got to try [...]
After 6 hours spent at 6 different retail locations over 3 days from Southern to Northern California, I finally have my iPhone 3G! I switched from my BlackBerry Pearl once Apple removed my primary barrier to adoption — lack of push email and calendar — and I am overlooking the challenging keyboard and lack of [...]
I’m thinking about it. Thinking about it hard. And I don’t know that I’ll have the strength to resist my consumer impulse. I’ve loved my BlackBerry Pearl and its predecessors over the past few years. I love the synchronization with my work Outlook; I use email and text messaging constantly, the phone, notes, the to-do [...]
