Teft’s Blog

Over the weekend Apple made a killing with half a million iPhones sold! Let’s see 500,000 x $600 = $300 Million! 700,000 units sold at $200 million profit! Way to go Steve Jobs! With that many sold, somebody in my family HAD to buy one …. no it wasn’t me … My sister and her husband sunk cash into two iPhones! The pic to the left is my sisters iPhone.

After playing with it for awhile I feel like it’s luster and beauty is seducing me into spending money on an iPhone (and 2 year contract with Cingular/At&t). You see, it’s not just another Palm Treo, or some hot shot “Black Jack” phone, it’s a seduction machine with style and finesse.

What you immediately notice is how striking the screen is, it’s colors POP. All the animations are tasteful and don’t get in the way. The multi finger input screen is brilliant, but still requires getting use to. It’s a bit picky. The messaging keyboard is hard to input keys with accuracy, but one of the nice features while “typing” is that it looks at what you are trying to spell and makes intelligent choices (most of the time). My Treo 650 does the same thing, but not to the extent of the iPhone.

YouTube glory! I’m not a big YouTube user, but man does the iPhone make you watch videos. Lots of ‘em. Lot’s of time is just wasted viewing YouTube videos on your phone iPhone. I recommend watching this one, and this one, and this one.

Web browsing is a dream …… multiple pages open, full colors, zoom in, zoom out, ahhhhhhh … Feels good. WHAT?! No Flash?! No Downloads?! No Attachments when sending web mail?! What do I do with all those 2mp pics I snapped of my dog licking my other dog?! I thought this was a full featured browser?! I guess you don’t get it all with release 1.0.

OR! You wait for it to get hacked! It’s on the horizon, the iPhone is being hacked and pillaged as I blog. Two major things we need for the iPhone to be fully hacked is:

• Shell access to the unix layer (it IS OSX under the hood!)
• File system access, so you can load third party apps (how about a Logic Pro port to the iPhone???)

So am I going to drop the initial $600 for an iPhone? It’s DAMN tempting!