{"id":111,"date":"2008-07-21T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-07-22T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:50:46","slug":"iphone-3g-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/iphone-3g-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 3G first impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been close to 10 days now with the new iPhone and I wanted to write down my impressions.<\/p>\n<p>The bad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battery life is terrible. I mean, I understand the usual fanboy tactics of saying that the iPhone 3G still has the best battery life among 3G phones, but who the hell cares? It still sucks, I still have to charge the damn thing at least two times a day.<\/li>\n<li>It crashes a lot. I mean a lot lot.<\/li>\n<li>No idea why, but deleting emails from a specific IMAP account that I have, completely disables the Mail app against any other account. I have to restart the whole phone to be able to use that app again.<\/li>\n<li>Every so often iTunes does a backup of the phone, and it is now taking a LOT of time. I remember it taking around 1 hour for the first time. I believe it takes that long when you install new applications on the phone, but it makes no sense to me to take that much time.<\/li>\n<li>The contacts app takes a lot of time to open now. I&#8217;m assuming this has to do with a new architecture that allows one to search the database, but damn. 4-5 seconds to load a contact database of 73 contacts? Come on.<\/li>\n<li>The App store needs to review new applications \/ updates to existing apps more quickly.<\/li>\n<li>The store should restrict app reviews to users that actually purchased the app.<\/li>\n<li>A small thing, but it&#8217;s quite common for the phone to stop doing the &#8220;unlock&#8221; sound. You know, the one that is triggered when you unlock the phone with a sliding motion. The &#8220;lock&#8221; sound still works, but the &#8220;unlock&#8221; one doesn&#8217;t. I need to restart the machine to make it work again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The App store is so very cool. Lots of cool apps available, and I&#8217;m sure many more will come in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Exchange support is very useful. I can finally sync with my work&#8217;s email account with ease, without doing a lot of IMAP\/procmail hacks.<\/li>\n<li>The new &#8220;tap at the top of the screen&#8221; to scroll to the top of the list of email messages is awesome, something I wanted for a long time.<\/li>\n<li>Same feature is now available in the contacts app.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to delete multiple messages is also invaluable. I can&#8217;t believe how much time I wasted in the past deleting a whole bunch of spam.<\/li>\n<li>The sound quality seems much better. The speakers are much better as well.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to save images into your photo folders is awesome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been close to 10 days now with the new iPhone and I wanted to write down my impressions. The bad: Battery life is terrible. I mean, I understand the usual fanboy tactics of saying that the iPhone 3G still has the best battery life among 3G phones, but who the hell cares? It still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pessoal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}