I purchased my iPhone on July 9th so have been working with it for two weeks. My overall analysis is that it is hard now to imagine being without it. It is really great. Dan Stanzione used to ask folks to gauge technology by asking, "Is it CB radio or color TV?" The iPhone is definitely color TV!
I hope in a series of posts to discuss my experience with each of the major modules, Listing what I like and what I do not like. The first module under the microsocpe is iPhone mail.
I like the fact that mail only downlaods 25 messages at a time, this seems sensible. I also like the delete feature when you are triaging mail - one sweep of the finger and then touch confirmation. I like the clarity of the screeen, the ease of scroling and the interface to mail folders. I use the mail application a lot. Viewing word attachements is very easy.
Things that could be improved:
1) I use TextEdit a lot on OS X. I was unpleasantly surprised to discover if you attach a TextEdit rtf file to an email iPhone mail can not read it. The only way I can read the rtf file using iPhone mail is to load it into Word an dcreate a new file in word format, then attach that new file. Not cool.
2) Many emails have embedded html. Although the html renders well, if you turn the iPhone to lanscape mode, it does not swap the display to landscape mode, unlike the Safari browser.
3) I tried to forward a large email to another system (a picture) and the system would not accept it because of the size. Unfortunately, there is no outbox on my iPhone mail system so I cannot cancel it!
If the above are just operator errors - please correct me and tell me how to do it with the existing iPhone. Also it would be great if you would add what you like and would like to see added or changed in the iPhone's mail system. Later!
