So, in May I picked up a MacBook Pro. I have now added to my apple collection :-> I picked up an iPhone 3G.
Current thoughts - well, so far I am pretty happy with it. I find the phone to be fairly well organized. Making use of the iCal, email remotely, web etc is just great. The mapping feature is quite nice - though I have found that google maps still does not have *everything* on there, but that is ok.
When I started goofing around with the phone I discovered the VPN support. I had honestly not noticed the fact that the phone has built-in support for VPN access. It supports pptp, l2tp and - of course the Cisco VPN. My new employer uses a Cisco VPN solution so I got all happy and fired it up. Works great - was very simple to configure.
It was actually quite a bit of fun freaking out my co-workers. I started loading up an internal-only web site on my phone and they started to freak out :-> When I explained to them just what was going on - the response was akin to the "ok, I gotta have a phone that can do the vpn stuff - that is just great".
All in all, the iPhone has been good. I've had it for just over a week now. I shelled out the extra cash for the 16gig model which I am happy I did. The 16gig, imho, is probably skimpy - but given the costs associated with making the phone 32gb I can understand the 8/16 models for now.
The phone design UI/interface is quite cool. Voicemail ad dialing are all menu-driven from the phone's screen. Adding 3-way calling is much more straightforward than my old cell phone.
There are a few things which I would like to see on the iPhone. It may support it and I just have not found out how to do it yet:
1) The ability to select/copy/paste text.
- and to then 'right click' or whatever and say search this or find this address etc
2) Disk access to the phone. Make the ability to create a space on the phone to store computer data and access it directly.
3) auto sync of things like wireless configuration settings to/from your primary machine. They support it for email/ical/address book, why not wireless network settings?
4) notes synchronization. I tend to use the stickies/notes for ... well, yea - notes! I would like the ability to sync between the phone/laptop. To me, the phone ( because it is a pda ) is a portable extension to my primary machine - the laptop. Maybe I can do this with a web-based application but I want them to remain private/non-web. EG, I won't always have net access and I want to retain access.
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