Upgrading to the iPhone

After a brief detour with a T-Mobile MDA (nice phone) which I bought off craigslist and sold on eBay two months later, I ended up buying an iPhone on release day (oh, the shame!).

The good

Blah, blah, blah.

A lot of people out there have written a lot of praise for the iPhone, and I agree with much of it.  But that’s not interesting.

The bad

Camera

Six or seven clicks to get to the camera; by that time, not only have the kids stopped being cute, but now they're making fun of your inept fumbling with the glass-faced phone

Automatically resizes photos to 640x480 when e-mailing, which is lousy for pretty much any use, especially Flickr

Can’t attach more than one photo to an e-mail

Phone

Limited coverage at home but five bars in rural Arkansas!

There's no way to turn off the cell radio without also turning off wifi, so if you’re out of coverage but near wifi, it spends the whole day killing the battery because it’s searching for a signal

If you’re right at the edge (no pun intended) of a non-AT&T EDGE network, the iPhone keeps popping up a dialog complaining that it can’t connect to EDGE  fixed in 1.1.1

Physical device

The iPhone tilt sensor is a magical thing. Except for when you are laying on your side in the (hospital) bed, trying to read nyt.com, and the screen keeps rotating on you because it assumes you want the screen parallel to the floor.

Poor performance with our Motorola headsets, including low volume, crackling, and delays when answering the phone

Unless I’m paying mucho attention, my fingers will drift onto the screen, and since there’s no tactile feedback, I end up accidentally doing all sorts of things to my iPhone. ...

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