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Dumb: not letting me set up auto pay by credit card when I got my iPhone
Moronic: being unable to pay my Telstra bill using the iPhone
Archaic and lacking in security: paying using DTMF tones via mobile phone.
Still - Telstra staff (handpicked?) in Perth store where I got the phone were excellent.
First some rants;
“nz” gets auto changed into “ms”, and the auto replacement function does not learn from its’ mistakes.
Safari keeps crashing, with increasing regularity
YouTube videos simply do not work anymore
I can’t flip photos in wordpress
Mail does not flip horizontally, making it really hard to read HTML emails that assume a decent screen size
You can’t force an “unflip” of safari (which is sensor driven depending on the phone orientation), say for reading while you are lying on your side.
The keyboard sucks, particularly as essentially all apps have it in the smaller vertical mode.
Single mode browsing is so 1995.
Overall thoughts:
Usefull for keeping up with top 10% of things online, useless for proper browsing (tabs, multiple pages at once, video, speed etc.)
Useful for reacting to short emails, useless for decent work
Useful for quick and dirty photo blogging, useless for the research and work required for a decent blog entry
Useful for travel when you want to go super light, useless for overseas travel and those roaming data rates
A lot if that stuff will get solved with time, and meanwhile the iPhone still feels like something way beyond the norm.
Meanwhile my language has changed for these posts - it is just too hard to write well on this silly keypad.
well the iPhone is not exactly the simplest mobile platform, but I expect and hope that a wordpress app will arrive soon.
Wroten on my iPhone which luckily corrects almost all of the typos made pm the silly little keyboard.
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