My iPhone experience so far
I received my iPhones last night (one for me, one for Mary). I bought the beer and held down the fort at the Thirsty Bear while colleagues relieved the line-sitters at the San Francisco Apple Store, and made the purchases.
The device is small and beautiful. The activation process is through iTunes (a newly available version 7.3). The process was mostly clear as I made my choices.
I decided to use a family plan for the two phones, and on a whim (and perhaps against my better judgement) decided to move my existing phone number from Sprint. The bottom line is that “Your activation requires additional time to complete”. “Service is scheduled to be disconnected on your current phone at or after 12:31 AM EDT on July 01″.
So for the moment, I am waiting patiently.
Jim on June 30th 2007 in iPhone, Technologies
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Mary Panttaja » my new iphone responded on 01 Jul 2007 at 6:31 am #
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Jim Panttaja » iPhone notes - how it will change how I work, what works, what doesn't responded on 01 Jul 2007 at 11:42 am #
[…] I was in business as promised by iTunes (doing my activation) - actually earlier than promised. There were some complications of moving my phone number from Sprint (it was the primary number on an account that included phones for Mary, and our kids). But by about 3:00pm yesterday, all was working.We have a wireless network in our house (I haven’t tried it in the car yet) - and the iPhone picked up on it immediately. As I played with the iPhone around the house, I had fast access. On our bike ride this morning, we tried browsing the internet from Cloverdale - it was a bit slow, but email flowed, and it was usable. But I probably won’t be doing a lot of browsing unless it is urgent if I am not near 802.11 access.I am already checking my email more from my iPhone than my computer. My personal and Gmail accounts are working fine. I am having some problems with my Sapias account - but the incoming is me (Mahesh has it working) and outbound is likely fixable. The biggest issue on my personal account is the volume of junk mail I get. On my Mac with Entourage, the junk is filtered - but on the iPhone there is no filtering. And so far, I haven’t figured out multi-select to trash multiple emails at once (it may not exist yet).I have downloaded music and podcasts - and will at least spend some time trying these out. The features are as advertised - just have to see if I have the inclination to listen while I am walking or doing other things.I had to get Mary to get me pictures of my kids and grand kids - something I have never kept current before - I will likely keep this info current.I have found lot’s of useful web sites that I will likely look at more regularly. Some of the tools I regularly use work, others don’t yet. […]