So, the iPhone’s out, as everyone knows by this point. I’ve held it, I’ve tried it out, I’ve read a bunch of reviews, and I’m going to buy one.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m not going to buy one right now. I have no idea when I’ll buy one. But unless they really screw it up more than it’s already screwed up, when my current Nokia e62 dies, I’ll almost certainly end up with an iPhone.
For the most part, the things that it currently does badly, I don’t really care all that much about. I don’t really use a lot of data – the times when I want it, I won’t care that it’s slow. I’ll be looking up an address somewhere, or killing some time waiting in a line or something. I don’t do much in the way of MMS/text messaging, etc.
Physically, the iPhone is gorgeous. Seductive. The screen is beautiful, and the UI is good. I’ve never seen a UI on a phone that comes anywhere even remotely close to the iPhone’s UI. As much as I generally like Sony Ericsson’s UI, or Nokia’s UI, finding various options and functionality in those phones is like searching for a needle in a haystack. There’s almost no rhyme or reason to it, and as a result, the functionality may as well not exist.
On top of that, it seems like the first convergence device that actually makes sense. I could have an episode of Top Gear, some music, my calendar all on the phone, and all of them would not only be functionally useable, but a *pleasure* to use.
So, yeah – my next phone is very, very likely to be an iPhone. Who knows when that’ll be, but who cares, either?
And you’ll be singing this all the way to the store.
I think that instead I’ll probably get the touch screen iPod when it comes out. My current iPod is showing it’s age (controls are very wonky), and I don’t want the phone bits of the iPhone as much as an iPod with a calendar and contacts (which the current ones have) that I can edit (which the current ones can’t).
iPwned