As many of you know I am a bit of a Mac-ofile, I am a sucker for a well designed box and a good marketing story. You will not be surprised that I was one of the first to buy the new model, after struggling for months with the original phone’s duff battery and network tethering issues. What you may be surprised is that I bought two, one for myself and one for my 13 year old son AND I let them site there for a fortnight until his birthday …. Why? Well I know I don’t have the time to play with this technology at the moment and I needed someone to experiment and tutor me through the new phone period …. And it has been fun.
Max took to the new phone with gusto and was so impressed with Siri the voice recognition tool he asked her to marry him. Se replied “we’ve only just met” and later when demonstrating it to friends she said “I’m sorry that would contravene my licking agreement” – clearly there are programmers out there with too little to do or having too much fun.
For iPhone users you will know that your SMS messages are normally in green, with the new one the color is blue and there is a lot more to it than a simple colour change, messages are sent to other iPhones via the data stream ie the web. It is very clever and for 90% of the time, if not more sending texts and having face time and making calls to other iPhone uses for ‘free’ is an awesome idea however …. Me being me I have discovered a problem; let’s just say you were in Auckland for a couple of days and having been ripped of by various telos for roaming charges you turn of data roaming …. Well what happens then? Sadly I know …. No text replies or messages, “Siri that sucks what are you going to do about it”.
So do I like it? NO … I love it.
PS We also have a Samsung Galaxy in the office with a user called Troy, he loves his phone even more and I am sure it is better but heh 馃檪 AND don’t forget to check out our smartphone Enrolment tool at http://myrto.jwgecko.com
