About iPhone Videos
These are some good videos about the high-rated iPhone. One of them is about the good points of iPhone, but so far, the bad things dominate over the selling points of Apple's iPhone.
Until then...
Justin
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Until then...
Justin
Sunday, July 01, 2007
iPhone Complaints
iPhone is finally out. But, there seem to be more complaints and disappointments than satisfactions about it. Below is just a list of such First Impression Disappointments.
- Bluetooth is ONLY good for connecting a headset. That's it.
- There is no file browser on the device at all. Data must be organized (if at all) in the appropriate application.
- The camera is a simple application that has ONE button: the shutter. Pictures come out okay on the device, but nothing too fancy on a monitor, especially if it was an attempt at a macro shot.
- SIM card is damn near impossible to open, if at all. I didn't look into it extensively.
- Web browser is slow, even over WLAN. Even the simple OneList web app that was created takes around 20 seconds to load over WLAN. You can not highlight, cut, copy, or paste and text from a website, and you can not save any images you find from a website either. The only nice thing about it is the tabbed browsing, which crashed on me when I went to Engadget and YouTube on two tabs. This is the only application that allows you to use the keyboard in landscape mode.
- The keyboard sucks. It gets slightly better after the iPhone "learns" you, as the employees said, but even then, it's not a device you can use with one hand comfortably, much less without looking.
- You can only send one picture at a time in an email.
- No custom ringtones (yet, as we were being told) and the alert tones can not be changed whatsoever.
- The default ringtones are incredibly lame.
- The only form of customization outside of a lame default ringtone is the wallpaper, which you'll only see when you need to unlock the device or when you get a phone call.
- "Picture pinching" or using two fingers to zoom on any content is certainly fun to play with, but not practical whatsoever. This operation depends solely on using the device with two hands.
- No document editor or native viewer. You can not store documents on the device to be viewed, they can only be viewed as attachments when they're sent to your in an email.
- Visual voicemail is laggy and reacts about the same way as pushing the fast forward and rewind buttons on traditional voicemail systems. The only advantage is for those that get that many voicemail messages a day that they need to sort them according to priority.
- NO games. None.
- No voice dialing.
- No speed dialing (which can be made up by the "quick list", but getting to that quick list isn't as fast as holding a single key on a real keypad).
- No video.
- No MMS.
- It's still <4GB for $500 and <8GB for $600
- It only takes around 2 hours to explore every menu without any options for expandability except to scrounge around for new web apps that will load slowly and nowhere near as smoothly as the native apps.
Twenty is not many? But, for a product which created great expectations, the list is just too long to be acceptable.
Until then...
Justin
Update: Some iPhone videos about its good and bad points.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
iPhone to Include YouTube Player
The new iPhone ad just reveals that it will also include a YouTube player. This piece of surprise (as Apple ad calls the feature) news comes soon after Google has released the mobile version of YouTube.
You can take a look at the ad here.
Until then...
Justin
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Apple Mac OS X Leopard
This video showcases the new features that will be included in Mac OS X Leopard (coming soon).
After failing to impress a wide range of users with their Vista, is Microsoft doing something secret and revolutionary for their Windows 7 (formerly called Windows Vienna)? I heard that Microsoft is calling the Office 12 UI team to the Windows 7 development. So, I really hope that Microsoft would be able to do something exciting as they did for Office 12.
Until then...
Justin
iPhone Coming on June 29
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Safari Browser for Windows
Apple has released their Safari browser for Windows users, saying to:
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web — up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer.
To test Safari on my machine, I went to the download page and was greeted to download Safari and QuickTime (the default option). Why is Apple pushing me to download and install QuickTime when all I wanted is Safari alone? This is not the first time Apple is doing such a thing: when I went to QuickTime download page, I was defaulted to download and install iTune too.
After the installation, I fired up Safari wondering how on earth Apple has made it the easiest-to-use web browser. So, I typed google and pressed Ctrl + Enter. Nothing happened. It doesn't support Ctrl + Enter. But, when I just pressed Enter, it correctly sent me to www.google.com. And, it did a good job to send me to popular web pages without me having to type complete address and to press Ctrl + Enter. But, for not-so-famous sites, it is really a pain to have to type the complete address. So, this is not the easiest-to-use.
After I got to Google, I wanted to open my email. So, I typed www.gmail.com and pressed Alt + Enter. Nothing happened again. I can't open a new tab in a way that both Firefox and IE (and probably Opera too) support. To open my email, I had to press Ctrl + T and then type the address. So, where is the easiest-to-use factor of Safari?
Now, having opened two tabs in Safari, I wanted to check the memory consumption. I opened Task Manager and it is elegantly eating up 100+ MB of RAM. It happened in Firefox only when more than 10 tabs are open at the same time. Is Safari the best web browser then?
After being disappointed by its memory usage, I tried to close my email and suddenly a UI inconsistency appeared. Apple seemed to have forgotten that they were doing it now for Windows users where the minimize, maximize and close buttons are always on the right hand side of the UI elements. They did remember it when they created the standard windows buttons on the upper right hand corner of the Safari window. But, they put the close-tab button on the left hand side of the tab, which is a surprise factor in UI and which means bad. The best web browser would not confuse the users with such inconsistencies in the user interface.
But, I will be fair on this issue. The browser is still in beta, so it can have glitches that we can hope will be fixed in the final version. (Just hope that Apple will not keep Safari for Windows in perpetual Beta like Google is doing.)
Until then...
Justin
Update: In Safari, Ctrl + Mouse Scroll Wheel to adjust the font size of pages doesn't work too. Both IE and Firefox support it although the way to increase the font size is opposite in each of them.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
iTune to Sell DRM-free Music
iTune will start to sell music without Digital Rights Management which has raged many users who bought DRM-protected music and found that they couldn't play their music in other players.
But the DRM-free music will cost 30 cents more than the ordinary (DRM-protected) music and Apple will continue to sell both DRM-free and protected songs for both who want freedom and who don't want to spend 30 cents more for each song.
Apple will also let users who had previously purchased DRM-protected music files to upgrade their music to DRM-free. (Great!)
Until then...
Justin
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