Initial Thoughts on the iPhone

I joined the cool brigade and bought an iPhone Friday night. Overall, it is an incredible device totally worth the large price tag (but worth is certainly a relative term).

I want to be brief with my comments on the device, but basically there are no significant issues other than third-party support, which seems to closer to reality every day, and the iTunes requirement (I despise this software).

The GUI is fantastic, touch screen incredible, screen resolution amazing, applications wonderful, size great, etc. Most of my initial issues with the iPhone washed away once I played with it a bit more and became aware of how to do certain tasks or find certain information; it wasn’t that these things were hidden or are hard to get to, just that I hadn’t paid enough attention.

I was surprised at the speed of the EDGE, which is about twice as fast as dialup, and activation was flawless (I was totally up and running in less than 15 minutes; note that I was and am an AT&T customer).

The one significant problem I had was connecting to my secured WiFi network. Passcodes required nuanced entering depending on whether they are ASCII or hex, and nearly all the information I found online about how to enter the information was using the network connection interface for firmware 1.0.0, which is a bit different than 1.0.1. In the end, don’t forget to reboot your router!

The one definite improvement I would like is that Safari would (1) continue loading a page when you switch to a new browser window so you don’t have to wait around and (2) not reload the page you were last on.

Album Reviews

1——>3—–>5
Terrible—->Fantastic

5
Getz, Stan and Bill Evans – Getz, Stan and Bill Evans
Plastician – May 2007 Mix

4
Blunted – Presents BITS!, Volume 11
Books, The – Lemon Of Pink, The
Books, The – Lost and Safe
Books, The – Music For A French Elevator
Books, The – Thought For Food
Knife, The – Hannah Med H
Meat Katie And Elite Force With Roland Clark – Divine
Moldy – Live on Konkrete Junge (20070219)
My My – Songs For The Gentle
Quintron – These Hands Of Mine
Sam Morgan’s Jazz Band – How Low Can You Go, 1925-1941
Smoosh – Free To Stay
White Stripes, The – Icky Thump
Wiley – Play Time Is Over
Winehouse, Amy – Back To Black

3
Abraham, Andy – v27.2 For Ally to Turn The MoFo Up To 11
Beastie Boys – Mix Up, The
Boards of Canada – A Few Old Tunes
Cenobites, The – Cenobites, The
Djelimady Tounkara – Solon Kono
Gonzalez – Presidential Suite
Gutterbreakz – Sol Mix
Heil, Johannes and Kim Cascone – Dark Eldar
Killers, The – Sam’s Town
Kool Keith – Ultra-Octa-Doom
Koop – Koop Islands
Koop – Sons of Koop
Ladytron – 604
Moore, Thurston – Trees Outside The Academy
Mos Def – Mos Definite
Northeast Groovers – Ice Box
Northeast Groovers – Oxun Run
Parris, Ben – Live At Watergate in Berlin [20060712]
Parton, Dolly – Very Best Of, The
Pharoahe Monch – Twelfth Dynasty, The
Radigue, Eliane – Adnos I through III
Repeat Repeat – Squints
RJD2 – Third Hand, The
Sawhney, Nitin – Introducing

2
Chemical Brothers, The – We Are The Night
Dope, Kenny – Strange Games And Funky Things, Volume 0.3
Drones, The – Gala Mill
Ellen Allien – Fabric 34
Ferrer, Ibrahim – Mi Sueno
Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Modernist, The – Collectors Series, Part 01 [Popular Songs]
Smashing Pumpkins, The – Zeitgeist
V/A – Crunk Hits, Volume 02
Watson, Johnny ‘Guitar’ – Funk Anthology

1
Acoustic Alchemy – This Way