I held out for a couple of weeks. I said “I’ll wait and get a second generation iPhone.” I was doing so well.
Then my Blackberry Pearl started sputtering out (email me if you want it cheap). It kept reporting that the SIM card was missing, and I had to reboot it three times a day. And it mysterious stopped syncing my calendar. This, coupled with not being the coolest kid on my block anymore, was all I needed. It put me over the edge.
I went to the Apple store at 8:45 one night, and there were 6 iPhones left. I set it up with my MacBook Pro and had no problems. The iPhone loved me. And I loved it. I stayed up playing until 3am that night.
I noted two big missing things right away that would affect me. There was no RSS reader and the Bluetooth implementation was pretty weak. The rumor is that they’ll be updating the Bluetooth implementation via firmware in the future. Let’s hope that’s true – I’d like to be able to see the contact record for whoever is calling me appear on my MacBook Pro. That’s a nice feature. It should also let me send text messages from my Mac via my phone. Other phones do it – seems like a big oversight for the iPhone.
RSS turned out to be no problem. I’m a huge Newsgator fan and love that my feeds are always sync’d no matter where I am. Once I saw their iPhone implementation I was blown away. It’s a sweet reader that fits right into the iPhone experience.
Maybe this Newsgator reader will even give Feld a reason to give the iBrick a second chance? 😉
Dave.
I did the same thing last week and haven’t looked back. We even went as far as to blow up my zune in the microwave and destroyed a camera that was worth a couple thousand bucks (oops!).
Welcome to the “cool kids table” ?
I knew you wouldn’t be able to stand it.
I got one too, but I have yet to give up my blackberry. I use it more as a webbrowsing ipod utilizing the great browser and wifi but not really doing much with it as a phone. It would take a much better email, IM, and battery life for me to totally give up the blackberry.