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join:2003-01-08
Newtown, PA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| So... iHave my own iPhone now....
Last weekend i was testing my woman's iPhone, just to get a feel for it & learn how to use it 100% so i could help her with any questions & just make sure it all checked out properly.
I was more than satisfied with the battery life and all the different features.
That was her brand new iPhone. I got a refurb 8 gig.
So, my iPhone.... What do i think of it, how do i feel about its performance, you must be wondering. Well, aside from a dead AC adapter (which is likely caused by the previous user & why the phone has no wear on it, only the adapter does) that i'm right now on the phone getting replaced, i have 6 pages of apps on the phone, got us to a destination to a pretty unfamiliar area with location services, and helped locate a frozen dessert establishment, and allowed me to see where we were in a very old town where my family has lots of history on a random nostalgia road trip, and allowed me to see what roads i passed near or under on a train trip.
It also allowed me for the first time to look up information right when i thought of it, vs sometimes hours later if i've even remembered it.
Battery life is easily managed by clicking the sleep button, turning 3G, wifi & location & push services on/off as needed no hassle at all in that.
Aside from a few websites that require flash to do stuff, and a few that wont let iphone browse a full version of the site, internet browsing is 2 thumbs up.
Music management is easy, good sound quality, i took a 5 mile walk from in town to my house with music playing on the speaker (didnt bring phones with), listened 90% of the way till i came to a loud road that overwhelmed the speaker's output (no biggie, the road noise is audible clearly from the opposite part of the section of my house that faces the same road, so even headphones don't really help sometimes). The clicker on the 'phones works well for both answering calls and stop/pause/play control.
E-mail, SMS, and IM work flawlessly and smoothly, i've used both yahoo messenger, aim, and the default SMS software to talk to people on my phone's contact list and the respective buddy lists. Typing is easy, WAY faster than on my razr.
Visual voicemail is not available from about 2:30 to 3 am, but otherwise it works well and is very, very useful, it presents each message as a timed recording so i can skip through it or rewind as need be, it tells me how long the messages are before i listen to them, so i can tell the difference between an actually message, and a call meant to try to reach me, but maybe accidently ran long & hit the voicemail beep unintentionally.
Using the phone part, for me personally is more "woah i can call people too with this thing?!?" vs "oh it has more features than just phone stuff". It's all tightly integrated, anything that could be a phone number is presented in blue, and all one needs to do to dial is touch it & it asks if you wish to call etc etc. It has an audio quality on par with land line phones, which is more than i can say for any other mobile i've used before. Might be wondering 3G vs EDGE, more on that next. Calls are easily handled by both speaker/mic on phone & the included 'phones with the good audio quality all around. Bluetooth calls are going to be the same quality outgoing as they were before, however incoming audio from a bluetooth device will be improved due to the overall audio quality of the stuff built into the phone.
As for EDGE vs 3G on data & calls, there is a moment where the phone disconnects from the network, you must end calls before switching, however internet & location stuff isnt affected. The audio quality is about the same, but 3G gets more data in per sec & also uses about 10% more battery or more depending on signal strength.
Wifi works beautifully & saves hugely on battery. I often turn it on airplane mode & connect on yahoo/aim via wifi. When i leave the house i turn wifi off & have it on EDGE unless i want fast stuff like app store.
The unlimited data plan is totally justified, because i can't see att keeping up with demand without a high level of network availability, meaning tower repairs, new towers, newly 3G capable towers etc. Justified yes, but do i wish it was 20 & not 30? Yes.
We have family plan 550 with 2 iPhones (2 iPhone data plans), unlimited family plan text. Applecare to come soon, as well as those battery pack cases to enable us to use 3G more often & keep the screen on playing games for longer periods of time.
So far i'm satisfied. 
- A
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