Initial iPhone Impressions
6.30.2007
So far I’ve very impressed. The iPhone is truly ahead of its time. Sure.. its not without its kinks but its all stuff they can fix. I could go over all the good things in the iPhone UI, but it would take forever because of the good mobile design that has been done. The one thing I must say is that the screen is amazing. Very bright, very clear, and very big.
Here is a list of the few things that annoy me (so far) that I think apple should fix…
- *No To Do App** are you serious?!? a todo app (or todo’s in the calendar) is in my top 3 features I wanted an iPhone for. On the road todo management.
- the calendar doesn’t tell me what events are mine sure, I know I am not in any plays, but at least let me turn off my brothers shared calendar if I want.
- notes seems like an after thought or really, un-thought. I feel like this icon is just filler. It doesn’t sync, it just got some fancy page turning eye-candy. Did I mention there is no todo app?
- the letters on the keyboard are always upper-case. The only way to tell if you have shift down or not is to look at the state of the shift button. I think the keys on the keyboard need to change from upper to lower to make this more clear.
- the “enter” button for tasks using the keyboard is not consistent The send/enter button is sometimes next to the spacebar at the bottom, sometimes above the keyboard, and sometimes at the very top of the screen… eh?
- the icons on the home screen are not “live” In many old screenshots the clock, weather, and calendar icons are live showing real data (time, date, and weather) on the 1.0 release of the iPhone UI, only the calendar icon is really live. The real annoying thing is that the other two look live, but its defiantly not 73 here.
- loading multiple pages on safari seems to be the only way to slow the iphone down. other than that the iPhone seems faster than my MacPro a lot of the time.
- The iPhone doesn’t work with my iPod car kit I think if they are going to add an ipod connector, you should make sure your device works with anything with a connector like that. The sound plays though the iPhone speaker and not the cars

and thats it! what a great little device ![]()