iPhone Update
Oct 11th, 2008 by Andy
I blogged like crazy about my iPhone and then I stopped. I’m sure you’re all disappointed and I’m sorry. I’ll try to keep up my iPhone obsession a bit better. I do have a couple of new thoughts about my iPhone.
The software update that came out several weeks ago really helped the battery life. At least it seems to me to be much, much better. I suspect the engineers managed to optimize the GPS, Wifi radio, or something. Who knows what they did - I’m just happy I don’t have to charge the thing as often. (I suppose I’ve also gotten in the habit of charging it more frequently - so maybe some of the improvements are due to changes in my habits.)
On the negative side, it seems like the device gets sluggish more frequently and I’ve had it totally freeze and reboot a few times. I guess that’s pretty much the case with all computers but it always seems to happen at the most inconvenient times.
The phone generally reports better coverage (more bars) than it did before the software update but I have seen no change in actual call performance. I guess I don’t understand the point of the bars if I can’t place or receive a call when the phone is reporting 3 bars. I pretty much ignore the bars.
There are a handful of apps I use and I’m always trying out new ones. Maybe I’ll try to start a regular series of simple reviews of the iPhone apps that I use or have tried. Maybe. (It’s an original idea, don’t you think?)
Finally, the more I use my iPhone the more it drives me insane that I can’t sync my podcasts over the air. Sure, I can hook the phone into my computer and sync but why can’t I just sink over Wifi? I know they’re scared of bandwidth intensive activities over the 3G network - so limit me to doing it over Wifi (I doubt I’d wait around for it to happen over 3G anyway). Plus, not that I’ve tried, but can’t you buy some songs over the air with the iPhone iTunes application? Why not podcasts! Grrrr.
