Fun with Bike Computers
Here’s to the coolness of having a super-geek bicycle computer! Too bad the darn thing doesn’t make my bike go any faster!
Here’s to the coolness of having a super-geek bicycle computer! Too bad the darn thing doesn’t make my bike go any faster!
So now that the wife has had an iPhone for some time, and I’ve had some time to mess about with it – decision time has come to determine whether or not I will jump ship from Windows Mobile to the iPhone (or at least jump ship for a few months, hehe).
I tend to be a thoughtful person when it comes to decisions, and have posted a couple times on my impressions of the iPhone (here and here). On the whole, the iPhone isn’t perfect, but it’s not a bad choice, either. Right this second, there’s not really any competition to the iPhone. However, around the corner always lurks new technology. There’s bound to be something in the pipe to kill the iPhone’s current prominence as the best all-around mobile device, right? Of course! Read on for more…
After continuing to live with an iPhone in the house, we’ve gotten a bit more used to (and sometimes frustrated) with some features and more general comparisons to other devices, such as Windows Mobile (WM). As we continue using the iPhone for the wife, here’s some of my ‘second’ impressions, again provided in random order…
Okay, so we fell for the hype a bit. I got the wife an iPhone 3G as a gift. It’s cool, it has some nifty features, it’s got a pretty decent price tag – and I’d been wanting to check one of these things out for a while – so it had all the makings of a great gift. I come from a long line of Windows Mobile devices and phones, so I know what it’s like to have a bevy of features in the palm of your hand. So after having it for a couple weeks now, is the iPhone really any better than all those other toys I’ve had?
Well – the first thing I noticed was it seems to just work… Okay, Apple seems to have some reputation built up about it’s OS being reliable, easy and intuitive. Well, I’m into technology, so those things have never really interested me much – haha. I haven’t had a lot of exposure to Macs, OS X or even iPods – sticking more to Windows and Linux distributions, so the iPhone is really my first deep dive into the whole Apple ‘thing’. Well, I can attest that the iPhone is easy to use and intuitive. Reliable? Well… not so much – we’ve already had a hang or two that required a reboot, and a time where the push mail just went to lunch, didn’t get any mail anymore, and didn’t tell you it wasn’t connecting – so it doesn’t seem much better in reliability to any of my WM stuff.
On the easy side: it was setup to get onto the Internet and get Yahoo mail via push in a blink of the eye. Oh, and no messing about with editing network connection configurations or anything, changing where to store attachments, etc. etc. It just worked and she was happy immediately. So that’s not that much of a big deal, what about other stuff, you say…