MyVerbalOutlet » iphone

Smartphone Competition

Matthew — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:02:11 +0000

I watched the demo video at engadget of the new Motorola Droid phone. I must say I was pretty impressed. Droid won’t get me to switch from my iPhone for serveral reasons. I love the multimedia functionality of the iPhone, the apps and games I use, and easy sync/management with my home computer.

However there are several features of the Motorola Droid phone I would love to see on the iPhone.

A combined inbox view for email accounts
The new Google Maps for Mobile software
The doc and car doc accessories and the automatic mode change

If the iPhone had the new Google Maps for Mobile and a car dock I would order that right now. The home dock for the Motorola Droid is really cool to.

I hope some competition drives Apple to continue to make the iPhone the best mobile device.

AT&T 3G Service

Matthew — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:39:47 +0000

I usually check my email on my iPhone when I am getting ready for work in the morning. Thursday as I was using my phone I noticed that I had a 3G signal at my house. I was pretty excited about that. I commute to work in Bloomington, IL. which has had 3G service for a couple of years but I live near Champaign, IL. which didn’t have 3G service. I couldn’t understand why Champaign didn’t have 3G service since its the home of the U of I one of the premier universities for engineering in the country.

Now when I am in Champaign and I want to look something up on my phone I won’t have to wait on the dreadfully slow Edge connection anymore.

iPhone 3G Update

Matthew — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:40:40 +0000

Today AT&T changed the order status form on their web site and now I can’t get any information from it. I called my AT&T store to get them to check on my iPhone 3G order and the sales person said it was still pending. Then she dropped a new time table on me. When I ordered my phone I was told 7-15 days and now the time frame has gone to 10-20 business days. I guess I will check on my phone again next Tuesday as that will be the 10th business day.

AT&T Pulling My Leg Regarding iPhone 3G

Matthew — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:21:17 +0000

I order an iPhone 3G last week at the AT&T store near work. There was a url on my receipt I was told I could use to check the status of my order. The web form at the url has three required fields one of them being zip code. It took me a little while to figure out that I had to put in the AT&T store’s zip code instead of my own which makes no sense to me at all.

So I have been checking on my order at least once a day since I ordered the phone. This morning when I checked on my order the QTY Back-Ordered column read 0 instead of one. I thought maybe they had received a shipment of phones and mine was being processed. However when I checked on my order this afternoon the QTY Back-Ordered read 1 again. AT&T and Apple have really dropped the ball on this one and I am not pleased at all.