Sunday, June 28, 2009

iPhone 3GS First Impressions

I cant say that I fell in love with the phone upgrade at first sight, but we are learning to live together. I do enjoy copy/paste, search, voice command when it works and video capabilities. The quality of videos is pretty impressive. The voice command needs to adjust to my voice and accent. It does make funny decisions sometimes when I ask it to make a call or perform another function. I would love to get into the nuts and bolts of the voice recognition algorithm to figure out how it makes the decisions.

I do wish that the applications I use would integrate with the new OS better. Most of them work fine. I do notice that Trivial Pursuit freezes up. My opponent would be on 3d question and all I see is still the first. That's annoying.

I wish that Skype would develop a new version which utilizes Video capability on the phone. That would be fantastic!

Regardless of the flaws I see, I do enjoy this gadget a great deal. I do not think I will be parting with it in the next 2 years. Thanks apple for the match made in tech heaven!