I was dying to have one ever since it came out and the price drop enticed me too much. I liked it, I didn’t love it. As I mentioned in my first blog post about the iPhone, there were many shortcomings, but the deal breaker for me was the email.
Even if I could live with the fiveteen minute delay on retrieving emails, one thing that frustrated me was the painful delay on outgoing emails. Also you have to leave your screen on when waiting for the email to go out because the iPhone disconnects from the data network when you put the phone on hold.
Finally, the most frustrating thing about the iPhone emails was that it attempted to download ENTIRE messages before displaying them. The blackberry and most other smart phones download headers only and then ask you if you want to “get more”. I frequently get attachments in my email that are several MB and when I’m on the road trying to view the simple text in the email is impossible without waiting for a 2MB file to download on ATT’s ridiculously slow EDGE network.
Other than the email features I liked the iPhone. The battery life was fine for me, the browsing was awesome (even though some things like Copy + Paste were missing), the iPod features were fun. I may be back for iPhone v2 but as for now, I’m back to my trusty BlackBerry.