Archive for November, 2008

iPhone – one month on

Friday, November 21st, 2008

One month of fairly light use has highlighted a few additional findings with iPhone and its v2.1 OS.

Benefits:

  • ipod bookmarks (where you stop watching movie) get sync’d to iTunes (so you can start watching on iPhone and continue on the computer
  • Safari web browser can have multiple windows/tabs.

Downsides:

  • Telephone call log shows time of call, but not length of call
  • Calendar alarm times are restrictive (5, 15, 30 mins, 1 or 2 hours, 1 or 2 days) rather than any number of minutes/hours/days (like on Palm Treo).
  • Editing a calendar item, you cannot change which calendar to assign to (must delete and re-add)
  • Safari crashes repeatedly
  • Safari can have no more than 8 windows/tabs
  • iTunes app store is a nightmare to wade through (on iPhone)

There are rumours that v2.2 should be out very soon, so I’m hoping that a lot (some?) of the niggles and problems mentioned last time (and this time) get remedied!