1 week with the iPhone
It’s my first week with the iPhone 3G and I thought I had better write a little.
Firstly power is a serious issue I have not gotten a full day from the phone on 3G whilst accepting incoming calls for the day only (I will not use O2’s network to make a call and have my vodafone and my voip numbers forwarding to the phone) but the same problems exists with my Nokia N95 8GB so it not a killer. I have ordered one of these external power packs so that will help.
On pictures the phone performs adequately on the 2 megapixels, in fact a lot of pictures seem to be of better quality.
Activation was a complete and utter disaster with mobileme still not functioning correctly and O2 have STILL not done a database sweep on accounts set up as prepaid with people still failing in their set-up procedure.
The phone itself is a joy, vocal quality is excellent and signal is loud and clear easily matching the RF radio in the Nokia.
Now for a couple of wonderful things which set the phone apart, the APP’s store is a joy, I would love to have the choice that the have in the USA but that is an afterthought, I am loading testing and deleting lots of them, I have given Apple and I hope a lot of small business at least a couple of hundred dollars this week.
One’s that shine through so far are
Truphone
Amazing, problems with set-up were sorted by the wonderful Katie Brimble but after that its a joy, am receiving all my calls here in Spain on MAXroam (disclosure I am founder of MAXroam) and making internationals calls for cents on Truphone, quality is definitely 5 by 9 and interface is idiot proof.
Twinkle
The number one twitter application for the iPhone in my opinion, easily to load pictures and to post to twitter plus structured conversation. The have recently added a locate me feature which is very impressive.
Google Apps
This became available in Europe yesterday and opens the Web search box and links to Gmail, Calendar and Reader up at the top of the screen for quick access.
Twitterific.
Same as twinkle but a little more difficult to follow the chat, doesn’t have the occasional load problems that twinkle seems to have though.
Hellotxt
Cross posting to all the social media sites.
Lots of other fun ones, mobile flickr, ShoZu, TalkBubbles, Linguo, Vicinity, Shazam and twitter search are amongst the best.
All in all an excellent first week, no voice minutes used as I am not going to get caught in the trap of paying O2 one cent more than I committed to for 18 months.
Lots and lots of others but those are the main bunch I am using at the moment.
Any must have APP’s suggestions would be really appreciated 
You know what, I would love to like the iphone. However I am reluctant to go out and buy one (the ridiculous contract rates being my main objection). I have an N95 and HTC Touch and would really need to use an iphone for a couple of weeks to make a good judgement/comparison. Maybe I should find a few people in the same situation and chip in together to allow us to each try the iphone for a few weeks…
The interface & apps sound great to me but it is reeally the lack of BT, MMS and the low-res camera that holds me back…
careful with that recharger. Some of the sleeve models don’t fit the 3G (as it’s wider and deeper). I went for a slighly more awkward Kensington model
I also use Byline (for reading my Google Reader account) and VNC (for, you know, VNC)
I like Stanza - it is a ebook reader with a downloader for downloading books from Feedbooks.
Btw, Evert the iPhone 3G has Bluetooth. See http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
It doesn’t really have bluetooth. Can’t use it for anything other than audio headsets. And even then not stereo.
Twittelator is FAR superior to Twitterific. Less BS and more efficient. Perfect for me.
I also like Epocrates, AirMe, Epocrates, NYT and Bank Of America (only if you have a BoA account).