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Well I’ve been using the iPhone for about 24 hours now…

• Please get Note synching working soon Apple. I have memos from my Treo that I do not want to retype. They’re useless without syncing.
• The keyboard isn’t an issue if you just trust the auto-correct software and let it do it’s job. But why can you only use the keyboard in landscape mode in the browser?? That’s stupid. Most typing is done in SMS/Mail. Similarly why can’t I go into landscape view mode in Mail? It renders HTML mail as a web page. Why not treat it as one?
• Multiple mailboxes in Mail = stupid. It’s way too many taps to move between inboxes too.
• Bluetooth on/off is in a weird place in Settings > General. Not that bluetooth is useful on this phone since I can’t sync or connect to my MacBook Pro over it. My 2 year old Treo 650 could do that.
• The wow factor simply is incredible. Everywhere I go everyone wants to see it. I had a five year old boy scream at the top of his lungs when I pulled it out on Sunday night. And it hadn’t even been activated yet!
• Visual Voicemail and the whole voicemail setup in general is great. Hopefully all phones will have this soon. It appears that your outgoing message is recorded on the phone and then uploaded to the server making it extraordinarily easy to change your message.
• The orientation sensor seems to lag a bit sometimes. Hopefully this can be fixed through software.
• EDGE isn’t great but isn’t terrible either. Big step up from the Sprint 1xRTT network I was on before. WiFi has worked well for me so far. It would be nice to have a feature to tell it to turn off the WiFi radio if it hasn’t picked up a network in a certain period of time. I also want to be able to “sleep” my email at night. I don’t need email notifications while I sleep but I can’t put it on silent either since I’m using the alarm.
• As for the alarm, I understand why for business reasons they don’t want people using any old iPod song as a ringtone. But at least let me wake up to my music! The alarm interface is superb though.

More thoughts to come…

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