Playing around with my new iPhone 4

Ah, sure am glad the wider landscape keyboard came up for writing a blog post on my iPhone. Yep, finally managed to get one and been installing all my favourite cloud based applications like Evernote and Dropbox. So far it’s been an interesting experience, apart from the initial hassle of setting up an Apple account to download the apps.

It’s an iPhone 4, without the “s”. Yes I can’t experience the dual core power of the newer version, but i guess that’s of better use for gaming and stuff, for which I already have my old friend the PSP. By the way, I was looking for a comparison of the PSP and the iPhone processor because the screenshots of some iPhone games that I saw weren’t as good as the PSP. I have mostly been browsing, tweeting, and typing on the phone so far… and oh yes, taking macro shots of fruits and insects as well. Love the touch focus feature!

So before I bought this, I was a bit double minded about whether I should go for an iPad or an iPhone, since I was mainly interested in reading documents on the go, being able to take notes and then put them up on the cloud for use on the computer. I guess the phone was a better decision because it gives me more portability, at the cost of screen size ofcourse, which I think shouldn’t be a huge problem since I probably would have read documents off the pad for the first few weeks! Document reading isn’t that pleasant with the smaller screen, but it’s way better than the reading experience on the PSP Bookr homebrew. The ability to scroll around PDF files and view their images is smooth. I wonder why there isn’t a built in support for OpenOffice documents; most of my stuff is done on that.

Dropbox didn’t download all my data from the cloud, but it allows me to specify some of the shared documents as “favourites”, and that allows me to work with them offline. It also allows me to specify the local storage on the phone so that things don’t get too out of hand. Pretty handy when I would have to review stuff at a remote location without internet access.

Typing seems to be pretty smooth. The autocorrect seems to be playing its role well. The only problem with these touch phones is that you can’t feel the buttons you’re pressing, which can easily lead to typos. Apple is probably working on that; some kind of screen which would send very small electrical signals back to the users fingers to give a touch sensation. Kind of like giving little electric shocks, but I already felt a very light tingling in the phones outer metal frame when I was using it with the data cable plugged in. Had similar electrical ground related issues on my hp laptops metal body, not sure if Apple recognises this as a problem, since hp says that these little jolts don’t do any harm. Well, it might help me to live longer.

The battery just went down a couple of percentages as I’m typing this with the wifi on. Made a mistake on the first night I bought it by not turning off the “use mobile services” feature, and that drained all of my credit, along with a fourth of the battery overnight.

Okay, I guess that should be enough for a first post about the phone coming from the phone itself. More will follow, and hopefully it will take the limelight off my Samsung phone blog post which I give credit for bringing a good deal of inquisitive and often annoying traffic to my blog.

Breakfast time, ciao!