{"id":430,"date":"2008-01-01T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2008-01-01T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T19:07:54","slug":"new-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"New iPhone."},"content":{"rendered":"

I received an iPhone<\/a><\/strong> for my birthday! Angie got me one.<\/p>\n

So far I have to say this is a very impressive device. I only have a few negatives and all of them can be fixed.<\/p>\n

1) AT&T requires a physical street address when you activate the phone. There is zero reason that they need this. I need to see my first bill to make sure they mail it to my house. I thought about just not giving them a valid address, but figured it’s a binding contract and not worth the hassle.<\/p>\n

2) Lack of internet chat client. the only chat client uses SMS. I am unable to chat with AIM\/Yahoo\/G-Talk users. This can be easily fixed by adding the ichat client to the phone.<\/p>\n

3) Mail client is restricted to no more than every 15 minutes for checking email. I usually like to have it checked every 5 minutes.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned all of these can be easily fixed. So far, those are the only complaints I have. That is very good for me, especially for a first generation product.<\/p>\n

The positive things:<\/p>\n

1) The phone works as a phone. It has not crashed or rebooted on me. I make a call, it calls, I can talk and people can hear me. This is the most important feature of a phone. Some companies have forgotten this basic imperative. I have not tried to do any fancy stuff, like 3-way calling or video voice mail yet.<\/p>\n

2) The internal speaker works pretty well. I was able to listen to music, video, or online web video without any issues.<\/p>\n

3) I like the way it organizes the SMS messages. Very ichat like… Hope they make this AIM\/G-talk compatible soon.<\/p>\n

4) The screen is incredible. I have never seen anything so sharp and clear in a hand-held device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received an iPhone for my birthday! Angie got me one. So far I have to say this is a very impressive device. I only have a few negatives and all of them can be fixed. 1) AT&T requires a physical street address when you activate the phone. There is zero reason that they need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muggle-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}