So I can’t help but be kind of confused about my feelings on Apple’s new iPhone. The addition of 3G is nice, though are data plans now significantly more expensive? The GPS I don’t need right now, since using Google maps to find your spot on the map only takes about five seconds, and the turn by turn directions were already there. The things that seemed needed to me-
Improved camera, maybe with video (please!!)
Voice dialing, maybe recording
Bluetooth or WiFi sync with OS X’s iSync (why on earth not?)
Copy and paste
Improved WiFi store, with podcasts, maybe even video
Syncing To-Do’s from iCal (glaring omission since the beginning)
Syncing Notes
Support for music over Bluetooth
Choice to turn off predictive text
It seems to me that most of what’s new is just enterprise functions and the potential for third party apps. Apart from 3G and GPS, which both seem like improvements to existing iPhone features, there are no new features or functions. I guess the apps, combined with the new 2.0 software, might remedy this. And for $199, I’m keen despite the above omissions, since it’s basically still the same iPhone that I wanted before.
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