[OT] iPhone anyone?

[Brent Anderson]

The vanishing images is Google Maps, not the iPhone. It will work if  
you find an area with high-res satellite coverage.


On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Marian Petrides wrote:

> Actually, I'm able to type quite fast with a single finger on my  
> iPhone, but my hands are quite small.  It'll take a while for me to  
> be able to type with two thumbs, but I rarely do that anyway.  One  
> trick that really does work is to just type and depend on the  
> predictive typing to actually work--most of the time it does quite  
> well, although I bet it wouldn't do as well with esoteric words  
> (like medical terms).
>
> As for zooming with the map, I found tapping to work well, but it  
> was possible to tap to a zoom level for which there were no images-- 
> which at first looked like the map application had hung up.  Then I  
> tried used the finger-squeeze technique to zoom back out a little  
> and poof the satellite map came back.
>
> M
>
> On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:39 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
>
>> Well, I finally went down to the Apple store to check it out. Of  
>> course the
>> place was packed. They had about 30 iPhones there people could  
>> play with.
>> Some observations:
>>
>>
>>   - Most definitely 'perfectly sized' form factor. Beautiful finish.
>>   - Software and interface extremely intuitive. All of it works well
>>   (except Map*)
>>   - When operating it, there really is a WOW factor. It really is
>>   beautiful software. Reminds me of a futuristic demonstration  
>> video prepared
>>   by Hollywood.
>>   - Very surprised at the data rate. I was able to see YouTube vids
>>   quickly. The browser seemed a little slow, but not bad. Not  
>> until later when
>>   Chris reminded me I was on a WAN did I realize it. I imagine the  
>> Edge
>>   network would be slow. If it's like the Sidekick, it's too slow  
>> to really
>>   surf the net.
>>   - Tried using the Map application, but it kept crashing. The two
>>   finger 'zoom in' and 'zoom out', while cool, is very confusing  
>> to the Map
>>   application. Much better would be a zoom slider switch you could  
>> drag with
>>   one finger.
>>   - Absolutely could not type on the keyboard. Very difficult.  
>> Perhaps
>>   my fingers are too large. Where's the stylus when you need one?  
>> (Side note:
>>   there WILL be a huge market in 3rd party styluses for this  
>> thing.) My guess
>>   is they'll have to fix the keyboard input. AFAICT, it's just not  
>> usable.
>>
>>
>> I know I'll wait for them to get the kinks out.
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