iPhone Reviewer's Comments
|
You may also be interested in these review sites...
|
We all know by now that the iPhone can rock, but can it work? If you work for a small company without a complicated corporate infrastructure or you work for yourself, than the answer is yes. If you work for a large company like Deloitte, Shell Oil, Merck or any Fortune 500 company, you will want to stick to your Blackberry.
The iPhone is fun for sure, it plays music better than any other mobile phone and it displays brilliant video, but the iPhone can also sync with Outlook and can display Microsoft documents. It also has a really easy to use email application and excellent Internet browsing ability.
To read our review on the iPhone as a music phone, click here.
iPhone Screenshots. Click to Enlarge
Productivity/Travel:
In the months previous to the iPhone release it looked like the cell phone was not going to be work savvy at all. But last minute, we found out it syncs with Outlook and displays Microsoft documents, so it redeemed itself a bit.
It does not however offer the ability to run Microsoft Office Mobile for document editing and it cannot even come close to the RIM Blackberry in terms of corporate network connectivity. But many people in the US do not work for a large company or they own their own small company and may just want to be able to make calls and check their personal email while on the road, for this the iPhone is adequate.
For road warriors it does have an excellent mapping tool with Google maps. With this tool you should effortlessly be able to find your hotel or convention center and a good place to have dinner easily.
Nonetheless, it does not support third-party software. All of the productivity programs that you have become accustomed to with Blackberry and Palm are not obtainable for the iPhone.
Voice/ Text Features:
We found the voice features on the iPhone to be pretty average and the text features to be a bit below average. It can perform standard functions like conference calling and voice commands but sadly it does not have multimedia messaging. The iPhone requires you to send all media type messages through email.
Internet Features:
The iPhone is Wi-Fi able, which is great since Wi-Fi connections are often readily available. It also can use the EDGE network and has Bluetooth technology. For expediency, it can automatically detect and connect to an Internet connection.
It has good email ability and it can display full HTML email with attachments. It has real time push email ability through Yahoo and it supports POP3 and IMAP email. The iPhone also syncs with Outlook. Regrettably, this phone does not support popular IM services like Yahoo, MSN, Google or AOL.
Mulitmedia Features:
The iPhone is the best music phone invented so far and displays extremely high quality video. It also has a standard 2 megapixel camera but it cannot record video. You can read more about the iPhone's media features in our Multimedia Cellphone Review .
Technical Specifications:
This phone is shiny and smart looking and it has a long battery life and tons of memory, which puts the iPhone ahead of many of the other phones we have looked at. It also has a stunning 3.5 inch touch screen.
Using the touch screen does take some getting used to though. We found the scrolling and tapping easy but actual typing difficult. Since it works with the heat of your finger tips a stylus or a long finger nail will not work. So people with long nails will have to trim their nails or will have to learn how to work around them. Also the phone has to be upright to flip the orientation, if you have the phone sitting on a flat surface the screen orientation will not change when you turn it. Most phones usually change orientation when a slider is moved out or some other physical trigger is activated, which the iPhone does not have.
Summary:
Casual business cell phone users you can now have a cell phone that checks email, surfs the net effortlessly and makes you look hip. However, corporate powers users the iPhone is not ready for you workaholics, don’t give up your Blackberry just yet.
©2008 TopTenREVIEWS, Inc.
