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Thursday, July 17, 2008

iPhone: The Day After....

So Yesterday was my first full day on the iPhone.

Before making you listen to all of my ramblings, I'll give you the bottom line: While I have a few concerns, sofar the it's the most powerful business-enabled remote communications device I've had the pleasure of working with.

Concern #1 - Battery Life

Yesterday I ran the battery to "dead" twice. It shut down once right after lunch and then again (after a full recharge started at 1PM) not too long after getting home. It took somewhere between 1.5 and 2 hours to fully recharge (I'll keep a closer eye on this for the next recharge). Solution: I'm going to keep a USB Charge/Sync cable in my laptop bag, I'm going to pick up a few cradles (home , car, office) so that it's charging when it's convenient, and i' going to pick up one of the 3rd party "connector" based add-on batteries for emergency situations. I don't want to deal with enabling/disabling Bluetooth, G3, or WiFI so I'm going to go with "keep a charger around" model and see if this solves my blackouts.

Concern #2 - No Public Folder Contacts

I've decided that I will no longer call anyone and just wait for inbound calls. Well, since that obviously wont work, i'll have to figure this out. This will probably be my weekend project.

Concern #3 - ActiveSync != Goodlink

For the last 3+ years I've been using GoodLink. Before that I was using Blackberry (at first Pager-style then eventually the early phones). GoodLink's sync is so fast & accurate that you really feel like it's a mobile outlook client. The iPhone's ActiveSync implementation feels loosely coupled to my inbox... I'm not yet confident that a urgent email isn't hovering on the exchange server that has not yet made it to my phone. I often have Outlook open on my laptop while i'm holding the phone and the inboxes don't match until I refresh. Dissapointing.

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