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iPhone 4S: First Weeks Impression
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xxxxts
2012-05-18 , 17:50
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Well, I did it, I switched my N900 for my iPhone, it was fairly simple to export all the contacts from my N900 and import them into my iPhone 4S (surprisingly).
As a preface; I have owned the 1st generation iPhone for 4 days after returning it very displeased. I will now present my findings in bullet point format:
Psychical:
The lack of a psychical QWERTY keyboard is defiantly made up by Siri; incredibly useful voice recognition, also it has spell check thus I am almost as proficient as I am on the N900, and I am getting better everyday.
Lacking Features:
One of the the things I miss the most is the auto speakerphone when you take the headset away from your ear that was on the N900.
I don't like not having a basic file structure available to me.
I do not like that I cannot access "mass storage mode" and directly place ringtones and files of that nature onto my iPhone
On Multitasking:
Same basic concept as Maemo 5, only displayed very poorly, however Jailbreaking can fix that and make it a bit more proper.
On iOS 5.1.1
Very confusing to someone like me, when things are "dumbed down" it is harder to understand, it might be the opposite for people with less technical experience.
On 'Apps':
Very overwhelming; on the Maemo nearly all applications were quality applications. Even from devel and testing. The mindset behind the N900 was, "How many features can I put into this thing?" Whereas on the iPhone the mindset is, "Which one should I go with, what's the best?"
Makes life so much easier, I deleted every restaurant I dine at often out of my phone, I can now just use Siri and say, "Where can I get pizza?" and my favorite pizza places will pop up. Same concept with banking applications, movie applications, etc.
Lack of Flash:
I have not had a problem with it yet, the YouTube player surprisingly plays every video I watch perfectly, there's an App for that.
On Social Media Integration into iOS 5.1.1:
Surprisingly lacking, especially in comparison to Maemo 5
My finding so far is that the unjailbroken iPhone 4S can mostly do everything that Maemo 5 can (...mostly...), only much faster and much more efficiently. It can also do a whole lot that Maemo 5 can't. There is a lack of soul to the device though, almost devoid of all personalization - a 1984 feeling to it. I will be updating this thread in the coming weeks.
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