More iPhone

More time has passed with my iphone so I figured it was time to write another post.

I still have not got bored of the iPhone and in fact it’s become something that I can’t do without. Yes I am aware how sad this sounds buy it’s true. The convenience of having quick access to my gmail and my social networking connections is great. In fact we had a fire alarm go off at recently and so o was doing some personal emails whilst outside which to me now is nothing unusual but to the recipients was funny. I’ve got so used to the always-on Internet connectivity be it it wifi, 3G, edge etc that when I went abroad recently I missed it because roaming costs too much so had to turn it off.

The various apps continue to impress me. The iPint is a fun party trick, the PhoneSabre allows me to pretend I am Luke Skywalker and the Facebook app allows me to take a picture and automatically upload it as soon as the shot is taken. I attended a family wedding recently so I tried this out by taking some pics for the benefit of those people who hadn’t made it. It was like live photo blogging.

I still think the GPS is poor and it can’t even find where I am most of the time so for me this is useless. However I hear rumours that Tom Tom are developing software for the iPhone which if true may restore my faith in this aspect of the phone.

One of the biggest topics for non-iPhone users is that they think that onscreen keyboard would be a problem for them. I was surprised how quickly I got used it but it’s because of the predictive text that the phone uses. So 99% of the time it guesses the word I am trying to type meaning I can type very quickly and it corrects my spelling and typing mistakes. I say 99% because if I type a word and don’t pay attention it sometimes puts in a word that I didn’t mean. I’ve had a few howlers because of these typos which has been very amusing for by friends. I have nicknamed this iPhone dyslexia.

Speaking of apps and the touch keyboard – I downloaded the free WordPress for iPhone app and this whole post has been typed using it. So how did I do – any typos?