The Journey Within

I’ve been using this for a while now, but now that it’s much improved, I’ll just like to drop a note here to say that this blog looks good on iPhone as well! Check out the screen shot below.

And if you click on one of the post, you’ll get this.

You can play around with the menu above, which will bring you to the pages you have, or access RSS and email functions. You can also search the blog using the search button above. Categories is there as well if you like. Now, just waiting for tags…

Thanks to the WP plugin, brought to you by the folks from WPtouch!

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It started with a glance. Then I said to myself, “nah, it’ll never be as good as my Treo”. And then, it comes. First, I started noticing it more and more. Then, people start to show me how it works. I saw their fingers, gliding along the smooth skin, and then, it comes alive! To believe that such a small package can turn you on. Playing it with 2 fingers brought greater joy. It became bigger and smaller at will. And when it turns, it becomes longer and wider.

After a while, I just couldn’t stand it, and finally bought myself an iPhone.

You don’t actually ever own an iPhone. It owns you. After a while, you feel like you’re lost without it. You will play with it any chance you have. Stroke it, flip it, turn it, listen to it, watch it… If someone is watching, you’ll sneakily put it back into your pocket, only to flip it out again the next chance you get, which is most likely 2 seconds later.

3 months on, I’m still playing with it. I’ve started to accessorise it. Got a nice coat for it. It’s even got a sweat proof necklace that’s doubling up as a headphone. I’m still filling it up with things that I can exercise my fingers with. It’s a clinger I tell you… a clinger!

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I’ve put off blogging about iPhone because I want to really try it out first to see if it really meets my expectations. As expected, it sucks as an organiser, but do well combining both a phone and my iPod. I know this even before I got the iPhone, but end up succumbing to temptation…

The weirdest thing I have to get use to about iphone is the typing. I type on a virtual screen, which only appears if I need to type something. The “official rules” recommend typing with a single finger first, then proceed to 2 thumbs typing. I started straightaway with the 2 thumbs. Initially typing very slowly because of all the errors. But once I can live with the typing errors, the correction engine actually works very well. I end up just typing what I think i’m typing, and the correct words will most likely come out of the wash. It’s ok for most of the things I type. If it’s unique words like names of people or places, the correction engine won’t do that well.

The default applications (apps) that comes with every iPhone do not actually do well. It looks pretty, but not too much functions. I guess I am comparing with Palm. For example, the default apps do not include a ToDo list. So i had to search for one I can use easily (read Paying for software for more details).

Also, birthdays, anniversaries, etc do not show up in the default calendar, which is a bit annoying. I downloaded an app called “Upcoming” to show this list. The default calendar cannot include the Lunar Calendar as well, so I had to include another app that does this. And there’s no “year view” in the default calendar, which again I downloaded another app for this. Happy that all these apps are free (for now).

All these iPhone apps can get a bit unwieldy after a while, and there’s no obvious way to organise these apps (unlike the simple categories which you can use on Palm). Even for a simple calendar, I need 3 other apps to support the one app on Palm, which will increase the number of Apps required on iPhone. The hacked iPhone seems to be more user friendly than the default one. I might consider hacking it one day.

Of course, the things that people normally gripe about (cannot copy and paste, cannot forward SMS) did not bother me too much, as these are hardly used anyway. I use the iPod function more now as i carry my phone with me all the time. I just need to remember to carry my earphones.

In summary? A quick typer, with nice phone and ipod combination. Better default apps on Palm although the growing third party softwares should be a good sign. You just need to keep looking.

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With all the buzz created by the Apple iPhone, why is the name still being contested? With the introduction of appletv, Apple is trying to do away the traditional computer. In the same vein, apple is also trying to do away with the traditional phone. With all the revolutionary claims about the iPhone, wouldn’t it be easier just to call it i-Not-Phone?

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