1 big problem with iPhone reviewing journalist

by Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Sunday, 20 April 2008

Page 2 of 3 Wolfe’s third point is his desire for longer battery life. He says his battery keeps on going flat, and needs recharging regularly, and blames his regular Wi-Fi web browsing. Well, here at least, he has a point. Apple could have made the iPhone’s battery easily replaceable, but all Wolfe needs to do when he’s at his desk, using his computer, is to plug his iPhone into a wall socket to give it some extra juice. Given that Wolfe is a journalist, he must spend a lot of time in front of a PC. That’s time he could use to recharge, if he’s such a heavy user, so his iPhone has power when he needs it, rather than sitting in his pocket. I don’t concur with Wolfe’s battery life findings, anyway. I use my iPhone as an iPod, listening to lots of music, making and receiving phone calls, and doing a lot of EDGE surfing, and while the battery meter certainly goes down over the course of the day, I haven’t lost all power as yet, although I have gotten close. But then by the time happens my charger is close by and the iPhone gets recharged. It’s really not that hard. Nor is purchasing a rechargeable battery pack that connects to the iPhone’s dock to recharge the battery when out and about, if needed. They’re widely available and work with regular iPods too, so even though the iPhone’s battery is not easily replaceable, it certainly is easily rechargeable. Onto problem number 4. Here Wolfe wants a better ‘soft keyboard’ and blames his fat fingers. Well, my fingers aren’t fat, but then aren’t thin either, and I’ve found the keyboard to be very easy to use. I’ve also owned my iPhone since August of 2007, and have become very, very used to it. I can type very quickly on the keyboard. It’s just as Steve Jobs said – you really need to ‘trust’ the keyboard. Often you can get to the end of a word, which has been mistyped, and by the time you get to the last letter of whatever the word was supposed to be, there is the autocorrection there waiting for you to hit the space bar so it replaces whatever you’ve mistyped with the correct word. Perhaps Wolfe just hasn’t figured this out yet given the fact he’s only had an iPhone for two weeks. He says he doesn’t have any problems with the Blackberry’s tiny keyboard, but maybe his desire for a ‘real’ keyboard will come true in iPhone 2.0, if Steve Jobs opens up the Bluetooth profile to more than just a Bluetooth headset. I guess we’ll have to wait and see on that one. So, what is Wolfe’s not-so-final iPhone issue? Please read onto page 3. << First page <   1 2 3 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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