Tales from our World

Well, I got an iPhone, I wasn’t planning on it, as I do think that $500 is a too much for a phone. However, I had a customer with a specific requirement, so I needed to get one. I’m a blackberry user right now, and I have to say, the iPhone has great potential, but right now it seems that Apple doesn’t know if the iPhone is a consumer or a business device.

Here are my thoughts (in no order):

• The screen is amazing
• Battery seems to be really good
• EDGE is a bit slow, I wonder why Apple wanted to go this route, and not a 3G network.
• the mail client is not good (I wanted to says “sucks” but that might be a bit strong)
• AT&T seems to work better at my house than T-mobile
• gApps (email) doesn’t work well with the mail client
• the screen is a smudge magnet

I love my Mac, every computer I own is a Mac. However, my one complain is the lack of a really good mac email client. I think Mail.app, while its getting better, isn’t getting better fast enough. I’ve played with Thunderbird, and the new 2.0 beta is looking a lot better, but again, I have issues with it (e.g. you can’t use Address Book with it).

Well, now it seems that there is a new app on the block called Correo, while it is only a 0.1 release, it shows a lot of promise, and I am looking forward to watching it grow.