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Might as well talk about the iPhone too

Since there’s not getting around the fact that all the talk in the coming days/weeks/months will be all about the iPhone, might as well put in my 2 cents on the matter based on what I’ve read in the internet.

Here’s a press release from Apple

iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.* In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours—more than 10 days—of standby time. Apple also announced that the entire top surface of iPhone, including its stunning 3.5-inch display, has been upgraded from plastic to optical-quality glass to achieve a superior level of scratch resistance and optical clarity.

If this is true, then damn, that’s awesome! The use of glass is a brilliant idea – I just hope it doesn’t make the phone fragile and less resilient to [unwanted] physical impact.

As amazing as these specs sound, there are also some other “feature concerns” the iPhone reportedly has. I’m not sure as to the accuracy of the data on the list below, as it was posted from a Windows Mobile-centric forum. But assuming they are true and not just an attempt at sour-graping, here are my thoughts on the matter.

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Mail tips

For my future reference. Taken from hawkwings.net

Get a considerable speed increase in Mail.app (and if you’re lucky, a smaller mailbox size as well) by performing certain Terminal commands.

  1. Quit Mail.app
  2. fire up Terminal
  3. Do/type the following:
$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum .exit

If for some reason the single line method won’t work, then do the following instead

$ cd ~/Library/Mail $ sqlite3 Envelope\ Index sqlite> vacuum subjects;

  1. Press Control-D to exit Terminal.

In case you didn’t know, the $ is your shell. Again Mail.app should NOT be running when you do this! 1 Never tried doing it with Mail.app running, so I can’t say what will happen if you do – but I personally don’t want to even try to find out. It’s also good practice to back up your ~/Library/Mail folder just in case. You have been warned

Notes

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⇡1 Never tried doing it with Mail.app running, so I can’t say what will happen if you do – but I personally don’t want to even try to find out.
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Keep it up Steve, and you’ll lose your fans

Mr. Jobs’ words about opening up Mobile OS X to 3rd-party developers:

You don’t want your phone to be an open platform, you need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.

First of all, assuming the techincal implications of this are true (because they simply aren’t), whose fucking bone-headed idea was it to tie the phone up specifically to Cingular in the first place? The only feature I can see that is directly tied to Cingular’s network would be the visual voice-mail feature – unless another bone-headed decision was made to even use Cingular’s network for connecting to the internet as a whole (which is highly unlikely).

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More iPhone thoughts

Before anything else, this is probably just a sourgraping post. Since I can’t get the iPhone anytime soon, I’m trying to rationalize and make myself feel better by pointing out the factors that could make the said mobile device impractical for the time being.

But before I get into that, more eye-candy for everyone:

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