kosertech

Honestly, I can’t make up my mind.  After the WWDC keynote I was ready to throw down my $200 and join the happy iPhone camp.  As more time passes and the reality distortion field lifts I’m waffling back and forth about weather an iPhone would be a good device for me.  I spent about an hour typing solid on my friends iPhone in the notes applications today and decided to write up some thoughts about it.

There are a few things that bother me about the iPhone right now:

1. No A2DP support
2. Typing on the touchscreen sucks
3. The camera isn’t very good
4. No background running applications from the app store
5. No system level apps from app store, i.e. someone cant make a new keyboard with haptic
6. No Copy/Paste (whats up with this really?   so insane)

There are lots of great things going for the new iPhone though:

1. GPS (huzzah! I use this all the time on my winmo phone)
2. App store
3. Very slick interface
4. MobileMe
5. Next Generation OS
6. The browser freaking rocks

Things I commonly do with my current ATT Tilt

1. SSH access
2. A2DP
3. Instant Messaging with IM+ (always stays on, restablish after calls runs in background)
4. Web access
5. Slingbox
6. MS Live Search / Google Maps for turn by turn directions
7. Java Midlets

Of the above seven, I would loose the ability to do 2,3,7 right out of the box if I switched.  In theory A2DP could be added in a future update, and someone might port a midlet manager to the app store though I’m guessing this would be a very large undertaking.  I don’t see being able to run background applications anytime in the near future on the iPhone, Apple illustrated as much by trying to spin their push notification as a replacement for this.  It’s not that you can’t do some really cool stuff with the push architecture they are making available to the developers but It’s not a replacement for a true multitasking environment.

Decisions Decisions……