Comments on: A look at the iPhone, after all the ritz and glamor

By: $200 iPhone price-cut?! I expected that next year - Derek Punsalan - 5ThirtyOne

$200 iPhone price-cut?! I expected that next year - Derek Punsalan - 5ThirtyOne — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:21:40 +0000

[...] smartphone last month [July 2007], the Apple iPhone. How significant of a price-drop? $200. As an early [iPhone] adopter, I was a little flustered with the [...]

By: JMS

JMS — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:46:13 +0000

I’ve had my iPhone for a little over 24 hours and am too quite impressed overall. However, the lack of ability to customize basic actions in most applications is annoying. Right now I’m struggling to find out how I can choose to “leave messages on server when deleting them on iPhone” when using IMAP. As far as I can tell, there is no way to avoid removal at the server when you delete an IMAP email on the iPhone. If someone knows of an undocumented option or I have missed something, please advise.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:05:04 +0000

Battery life does seem to be good, I hope it continues through the frequent charges but I suspect battery changing time will come sooner than we hope. I did find an option to sending it off to apple though, the guys at ipodjuice.com offer a iPhone battery that holds a charge longer and a replacement service that will cost you less and get your phone back to you sooner than apple’s program.
- Laura

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:27:25 +0000

Derek, I found this interesting and somewhat weird experiment about the iPhone. The folks over at anandtech ripped one apart. The link for the post is

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3026

The other weird one is the blender video on youtube. Those blender guys mashed one up.

By: Ary

Ary — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:36:53 +0000

OMG, cant believe that iPhone does not have MMS. Its good that my Motorokr E6 has this functionality. Nonetheless, I suspect that Apple would definitely look through this in their next series of iPhone.

By: My own iPhone story and initial thoughts | Zach Holman

My own iPhone story and initial thoughts | Zach Holman — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:27:58 +0000

[...] don’t want to get into a whole in-depth review on the iPhone, mostly because others have that covered. I’ll probably instead just be typing up a few observations I have about my experiences every [...]

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:10:27 +0000

SMS layout, can you change it away from the iChat-ish style?
Can you change the fonts say on the notes app? The felt pen typeface looks iffy and quite unreadable on some of the photos circulating around.

It is not possible to get rid of the iChat-style messaging. Neither is it possible to change the felt tip font in notes. Irritating as it is somewhat difficult to read notes glancing at them while moving.

By: Kevinn

Kevinn — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:12:25 +0000

SMS layout, can you change it away from the iChat-ish style?

Can you change the fonts say on the notes app? The felt pen typeface looks iffy and quite unreadable on some of the photos circulating around.

It’ll take a while till it reaches the Philippines – or it may not, a lot of time for Apple to update it to 3G and add that copy/paste thing.

By: The Insiders » Blog Archive » i'm back

The Insiders » Blog Archive » i'm back — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:44:49 +0000

[...] My trust and beliefs still within the iPhone stayed strong. And I was not surprised when I read this blog by Derek P. I quote: Having admitting that my iPhone had already arrived (Nokia N95), I now sit [...]

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:51:10 +0000

Really my only qualms about the iPhone so far are its lack of a removable battery,

This had me a little worried at first. I’m just thinking back to all the iPods that I had ever owned. Not once had a battery died on me (or had performance deteriorated to the point that a replacement was needed). I’m thinking the next revision of the iPhone will be released about the time that this internal battery begins to show its worthlessness. Maybe one of those iPod battery replacement services will cater to iPhones?

By the way, how many phones do you have so far?

I like to offload older phones that I don’t use so at this very moment, the phone drawer stands at three. I just don’t see a point to having phones sitting around that do nothing.

does anyone have any idea whether that would mean being able to run it on an austrailian sim card setup over 3G?

My understanding is that the current iteration of the iPhone does not have the necessary hardware to support higher 3G speed networks.

One thing that I think should be added to your list is the inability to locate exactly where you are in relation to where you want to go on the maps feature. If you travel a lot and need to find a good place to eat, you need to know where you currently are. But with only a weekends worth of use of the iPhone I don’t see why you would have even had to use that feature yet.

In order to enjoy this "convenience" the iPhone would need GPS or some type of method to triangulate its position relative to cellphone towers. The device has Bluetooth. It would be great to use a Bluetooth GPS dongle with the iPhone – similar to what I was able to do with the BlackBerry Curve. Unfortunately, this is all very much dependent on the iPhone platform.

My BB Curve does everything I need it to do and it’s smaller/lighter.

My phone right before the iPhone was the Curve. I thought the keys were a little cramped but that is probably one of BB’s better phones to date. A slim body like the Pearl, but a full QWERTY. Sure is nice