In case anyone is contemplating an ATT iPhone purchase, here's a consumer report after one month of enthusiastic usage. Literally the only complaint I have about ATT has nothing really to do with any phone they've ever had to offer, that I've had occasion to use over the past 15-20 years - my other-brand "phone-feature-complaints" are many), but
- ATT presently (and still) has NO, that's EN-OH, coverage in much of Coshocton County, OH, a site we regularly visit.
- Whatever were the arrangements (up 'til 5-6 years ago) with Verizon to "pick-up" ATT customers when calling from that pleasant locale, they no longer exist to benefit ATT subscribers, probably understandable in today's competitive climate, but d-u-m-b, nevertheless.
With respect to the iPhone,
- Except for no ToDo list, its features exceed every feature/benefit of every Palm(Pilot) I've ever owned (approx. 20 years) – even though iCal does have a kinda kludgy ToDo list;
- Absolutely EVERYTHING else simply radiates efficiencncy/elegance - filing and later finding contacts, making calls, using the speaker, noting recent calls, adjusting a fantastic list of on-board ring tones, surfing the web for really useful pages, displaying (magnificantly) more photos than an ordinary motal might ever need to tote around in a shirt pocket
- Surfing the web for essential web pages - even YouTube if that's your proclivity
- Displaying (magnificantly) more photos than an ordinary mortal might ever need to tote around in a shirt pocket
- Having instantly available the niftiest set of timers and clocks I've used in 40 years iof professional consulting
- No GPS (no kitchen sink, either) but a slick-as-glass integration imaginable of Google maps and your AddressBoook
- Since this is my FIRST iPod (hard to believe, right?) eveything about that "benefit" is dazzling, whether Beethoven, Pavane for a Dead Princess, or The Buckeye Battle Cry, OR listening to Bill Bryson read his own books, unabridged!
- Lightning fast stock quotes, with 5-year, 2-year, 1-year, 1-month, daily averages graphs
- Text messaging that's worked superbly to, e.g., Australia this past week, as well as todowntown San Francisco
- A camera I haven't had occasion to use, as yet
- Syncing with more than one Mac so easy and faultless it's, well, humbling
- etc., etc., etc., not to mention the astounding "Buck Riogers" touch screen and accelerometer
The "solution" to the ToDo "oversight" is here, via a simple web-app I'd never previously encountered, in a really slick substitute . . .
Great ToDo substitute - more than a "substitute" Summary: The Leader and his Merry Cupertino Band are geniuses.
True, I've heard about the 75+ page ATT invoices (haven't seen my first one yet) but that may be useful for comic relief, if nothing else.
Value for investment? Average Palm = $300 + 8 gig iPod = $300 seems to mean an OSX Mac in your pocket, and the most elegant phone extant, are f-r-e-e. Anything about that requiring New Math?
Finally, for perhaps only a small subset of readers, Oticon is now selling a new and amazing set of cutting-edge stereo, digital hearing aids with a Bluetooth streamer that executes instantaneously seamless integration w/iPhone, which means now I hear my cell calls better than a 15-year old. Priceless! Believe me.
The End.
Thank you, Steven P. Jobs, et al.
Is this a great (and creative) company, or not? (Yes, I am a shareholder, but I also bought my own iPhone )
