Apple iPhone Gen1

I'm going to focus on the bad. There are tons of iPhone reviews out there where the fanboy who bought it, tries to verbally hump it in his/her review.

The basic rules of thumb for the G1 iPhone are as follows:

1) If you love to email on your blackberry, wait for the G2. The G1 mail client is for children.
2) If you want to be able to navigate to/from someplace using your phone, wait for the G2. The G1's triangulation feature is no substitute for real GPS.
3) If epically slow data transfer (read: web browser) really bother you, wait for the G2. G1 is slower than death.

So basically wait for the G2 iPhone unless you want to save money by buying a used G1 and dont care about the items on the list above.

Being a Waterloo native it has always been a unwritten rule of some sort that everyone around here must carry a BlackBerry, but when the iPhone was first announced, way back in January 2007. I had second thoughts. The beautiful form factor and the revolutionary combination of multi-touch and motion sensing technology had me sold.

The Apple iPhone has been a long awaited device. With years of rumors and speculation the iPhone had to be something revolutionary. A regular mobile phone with a standard set of features and an Apple logo would simply not feed the need for thousands of Apple fanboys and fangirls.

Switching from a Blackberry 8800 to the iPhone was scary at first due to the lack of a physical and tactile keyboard. After all these years of solid QWERTY goodness, was typing on a piece of glass going to work? With practice and patience it took me a month to get used to the virtual keyboard on the iPhone. It was challenging but not as difficult as originally imagined.

The battery life is very mediocre for a mobile phone, but exceptional for a smartphone. If your phone spends most of the time glued to your face as you yap away, you might consider a car lighter adapter or an additional source of power, same applies for heavy Wi-Fi use, as the additional chipset takes away lots of battery juice.

The integrated applications are designed for the urban lifestyle, with Google Maps find your favorite restaurant and make the reservation with a few taps of the finger. Watch YouTube videos while on the go on the gorgeous 3.5" display. Check your Stocks, Mail and even Weather wherever you are. Snap and share your photo memories as they happen or browse the full internet on a miniaturized device. At the moment there is no support for third party internet plug-ins such as Adobe Flash Player and Java, but Apple is hinting towards possible availability via free software updates.

The iPhone is an outstanding smart phone that has revolutionized the smart phone industry or at the least encouraged other manufacturers to step their game up. The use of innovative technologies and the simplicity as well as the ease of use jam packed into such a compact yet accommodating device will have you wanting a slice of this Apple pie.

 I got this phone when my husband got the new one!  It is very easy to use and I love it!  I had an old Samsung phone on Sprint - now that I have the iphone, I realize what a dinosaur phone I had!  When I was on Spring, we didn't get service in our house but now that we are on AT&T, we have excellent service in our house; however, my son in California doesn't have service in his house and has to go outside to talk on his iphone.  He also has a lot of dropped calls that he didn't have before.

 5 years ago, I carried an mp3 player, a palm pilot/electronic address-book, a blackberry (mandatory for work) and my cell phone. 

Quite simply, the iphone solved that. Sure other phones had some of these functions listed above, but the iphone allows a person to use utilize them seamlessly. 

One con that I heard from other iPhone users was about the poor battery life. I solved this problem by always keeping my iPhone at the lowest brightness setting; I can still see the screen and Apple icons with this brightness setting in low-light situations. I've used this setting for 6 months now. The battery life still last 48-hours before having to recharge.

I love it.

-Erik