Yellow Collaborates

Finally after many months of deliberation and evaluation of reviews, I finally decided to take the jump. Now I am also into the iPhone club. Many a sites and reviews exist on the iPhone but let me try to address some issues why people think it is not a so cool device.

1. The buying process

About six months ago I was about to take the plunge to an iPhone but my friend said wait for 3G launch in July 08. Not wanting to end up with an obsolete technology, I wait patiently and by then many an imitator also launches to the market.

And while deliberating the serious contender was the BlackBerry Storm. To me, it was not important to have business features. I needed an internet communication device with entertaintment features and phone capabilities. The Storm was bulkier and the browser in Storm was not commented to be as good as Safari. And I had a chance to use my colleagues LG Touchphone which was a far cry from the iPhone. They did have a touch phone but there ended the similarity. That tilted it and I shot the note to my ATT account manager.

2. The email from a relative

My relative got an email from a friend (whom I seriously think is a friend of a friend or a forwarded note) stating umpteen reasons why the iPhone is crap and Apple is evil. I could not help but respond to such a note about a company that is all about innovation and revolutionary products (otherwise I feign a deaf ear to such notes). As my friend in Apple Valley said..the only thing he now regrets is not buying Apple shares when Steve Jobs took the reigns.

Ok here were some of the items on the list

No AD2P…..Blak…Thats A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) that allows stereo transmission on Bluetooth. From the posts I read, it is definitely supported by the hardware, just that the software is not yet in place. Or you can do after market dongles to help you “stereo” your bluetooth world.

Can’t share files via bluetooth. 

               Well this device is way ahead of the conventional phones. How many times do you use Bluetooth on your laptop to share files other than to your mobile. This devices opens up the internet and possibilities are endless. Why restrict yourself? Sorry..maybe other phones are not there in this space yet and they need the bluetooth. To me the future seems to be mobile devices connected to the internet and exchanging stuff much like P2P connections or like your chat software.

No copy paste

             Again something that can be easily done by software and demonstrated by applications that were killed by Apple. anyways its coming to you soon <http://www.intomobile.com/2008/07/25/iphone-copy-paste-hiding-right-under-our-noses.html> Just a software upgrade aware (Not an expensive hardware upgrade)

The icing was the resistance to iTunes. In a market where piracy is rampant, Apple had found an excellent way to do Digital Rights Management and I am not complaining. Would you like someone to steal your music or copyrighted software? 

And so on goes many items which I do not want to elaborate. The key here is that most of them are all a software upgrade away and not an expensive hardware upgrade. 

This device is way ahead of its time and in this googlized world as long as you have a device to connect to the internet and a browser that can serve its content well; everything is just an upgrade away as we apply more and more open standards to the web.

Viva la iPhone! (Err…I am having a hard time deciding on the type of case I would like for it)