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This Friday I got to play around with an iPhone for a few minutes. A cracked one, obviously, since they're not on sale in this country yet. And a few minutes is hardly enough for more than a first impression. That said...
It's incredibly much better than the Sony Ericsson W880i I usually use. Heck, the iPhone kicks the ass of every other phone I've ever seen. Hard. A "better user experience" competition between the iPhone and a traditional phone is not just an uneven fight, it's a Godzilla-versus-Bambi kind of uneven fight.
The primary thing that struck me when using it was how fast it is. I've never considered the W880i to be particularly slow before, but it's a drugged slug compared to the iPhone. The iPhone reacted instantly to commands, even ones that one might understand taking some time, like zooming and panning images or web pages. The W880i takes a noticeable fraction of a second (as in, I notice it now) just to navigate from one menu to another. The really big thing was Google Maps, though. Which is just barely usable if you really need it on the W880i, and was quite pleasant on the iPhone. And that I can't really wrap my brain around, because they were both using GPRS connections to fetch the map images. The iPhone still took a lot less time to fill its 480x320 display than the W880i took to fill its 240x320. And by "a lot less", I mean about an order of magnitude faster.
Those resolution numbers, by the way. I just looked them up on the respective manufacturers' web pages, and was suprised. My guess from using the phones was that the iPhone had at least four times as many pixels, not just twice as many. It gets a lot more use out of its screen.
As I said, this was a first impression based on a few minutes time with the iPhone. It's possible that it sucks badly in ways I didn't discover. But even so it would take truly monumental amounts of suckitude to bring it down to the level of a an ordinary phone.
When iPhones become available in Sweden, I want one. Even if the operator turns out to be Telenor (may their name be cursed for seven times seven generations).
It's incredibly much better than the Sony Ericsson W880i I usually use. Heck, the iPhone kicks the ass of every other phone I've ever seen. Hard. A "better user experience" competition between the iPhone and a traditional phone is not just an uneven fight, it's a Godzilla-versus-Bambi kind of uneven fight.
The primary thing that struck me when using it was how fast it is. I've never considered the W880i to be particularly slow before, but it's a drugged slug compared to the iPhone. The iPhone reacted instantly to commands, even ones that one might understand taking some time, like zooming and panning images or web pages. The W880i takes a noticeable fraction of a second (as in, I notice it now) just to navigate from one menu to another. The really big thing was Google Maps, though. Which is just barely usable if you really need it on the W880i, and was quite pleasant on the iPhone. And that I can't really wrap my brain around, because they were both using GPRS connections to fetch the map images. The iPhone still took a lot less time to fill its 480x320 display than the W880i took to fill its 240x320. And by "a lot less", I mean about an order of magnitude faster.
Those resolution numbers, by the way. I just looked them up on the respective manufacturers' web pages, and was suprised. My guess from using the phones was that the iPhone had at least four times as many pixels, not just twice as many. It gets a lot more use out of its screen.
As I said, this was a first impression based on a few minutes time with the iPhone. It's possible that it sucks badly in ways I didn't discover. But even so it would take truly monumental amounts of suckitude to bring it down to the level of a an ordinary phone.
When iPhones become available in Sweden, I want one. Even if the operator turns out to be Telenor (may their name be cursed for seven times seven generations).
