No, I don’t have one of the new fangled 3G iPhones, I’m happy with my current one, personally I’m holding out for a larger capacity iPhone, 32gb in White would be nice, but I am overjoyed with the 2.0 software update…
It’s like getting a whole new phone (just minus the 3G network and GPS stuff), I’ve been finding so many new features these last few days I can’t help but smile. It started when I downloaded the leaked 1,2 2.0 update and then met up with Robyn for lunch, I was showing her the new calculator that becomes a scientific calculator when you rotate the phone when I discovered the maps now have an auto-updating feature that mocks GPS capabilities. Sure it’s not as accurate, but it’s fun watching the little target move with you, and in downtown Davidson it was going down to street level and updating nearly every block. Pretty sweet, but beware, constantly updating like that drains the battery… This would be a recurring theme. My one issue was due to our coverage, depending on where I stand and what connection I used, I was placed in 3 different locations…
The front of the house on the EDGE network thinks we live in Davidson (close, but no), the back of the house says Cornelius (actually correct) but the WiFi thinks we still live in Huntersville (just plain weird).
Now back to the battery, my battery doesn’t last very long nowadays as we get next to no service in the house, in fact most of the time it just says no service, so I use the Wi-Fi connection, which drains the battery much faster. Now, like everyone else, I went pretty crazy with the new apps feature, downloading anything and everything and a lot of these apps drain the battery pretty bad, such as the MLB At Bat one with it’s option to watch highlights of games. I now have to recharge my phone at least once a day, sometimes more. It would probably be much less if we had EDGE coverage (not even sure of our 3G coverage yet) but the battery life is pretty worrisome all the same. I also imagine this will be even worse if and when Google’s Gmail has a push email option, as right now it’s fetching every 15 minutes and that has been known to drain the battery back in our old townhouse that had 5 bar coverage.
Battery drainage aside, the introduction of Apps Store and native apps over web apps is great, after my downloading frenzy I’ve managed to whittle it down to 4 or 5 I’d actually use but who knows what new ones are around the corner… Currently the iTunes remote one is probably the best out there, using a Wi-Fi connection to control your iTunes library from anywhere the signal will go, this would be extremely handy if you used AirTunes via an AirPort Express but I enjoy sitting away from the desktop and controlling the sounds. I also downloaded the usual suspects in a Twitter, Facebook and Flickr related apps as well as the aforementioned MLB At Bat one.
I don’t know when or if we’ll upgrade, but I’m very happy with the latest update.