My 2 Cents on iPhone 3.0
Andy H. Chan | Jun 18, 2009 | Comments 1
I have upgraded to iPhone 3.0 GM (Gold Master) since last Wednesday. I’m a very heavy iPhone user. The following is the list of activities that I will use my iPhone daily:
- Watch/Listen YouTube video via 3G network and stream to my Acura TSX’s stereo using Bluetooth Audio
- Checking 6 emails accounts (2 Push Accounts and the rest are fetch every hour)
- Google Reader whenever I have spare time
- Non-Stop Referencing Calendar
- Heavy use of Evernote for note taking
- Facebook and Twittelator Pro if I don’t have computer with me (sometimes I left my netbook in my car or I forget to bring the 3G modem)
- Video Game!!!
After using 3.0 for almost a week, I have the following random thoughts:
- iPhone 3.0 has very serious memory leaking problem!!! In iPhone 2.2, my iPhone constantly have 10-12 MB memory left. Now, I have 2-5 MB memory left. Even after I ran Free Memory to get 23-30 MB memory back, I can see the memory leaks very fast!!!
- I guess it related to the memory issue above. My iPhone 3G with 3.0 firmware is SLOW LIKE HELL!!!
- Copy, Cut, and Paste work great!!! However, the slow issue really impacting my experience
- Love YouTube now can login my [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com) account
- Love SpotLight search!!! Save me a couple times already when I don’t have my MBP or netbook with me
- Still waiting for apps that using the push notification wisely
- Honestly, I don’t care MMS or not. 70% of my friends are using iPhone. I can just use email instead.
- I don’t care about tethering neither. I don’t want to kill my iPhone battery!!!
- Apple… Can you fix the god damn springboard? Although I have 11 pages (instead of 9) to use, how can we organize the applications?!?! Here is a small hint: You can use spotlight to search for application and launch it! It works like Google QSB (Quick Search Box) or QuickSilver on the Mac.
- ATT announced that I am eligible to buy the iPhone 3GB for $199 / $299 instead of $399/$499. Good news but I still cannot justify myself to spend the other 200 bucks for a compress, voice controller, and better camera/video recorder. On the other hand, I hope the new hardware (faster CPU and more runtime memory) can improve the user experience. May be I should just wait for the next update to fix the memory leaking issue!?!?!
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Great write up. The iPhone is truly amazing and I don’t like being without it. This time last year I had jumped in a pool with my iPhone and it was dead. I had to wait 10 days before I was able to purchasea new one. The phone I had was a cheap go phone. I really love all the games that can be downloaded to the iPhone. The best part about the iPhone to me is the ability to check emails on the go. Thanks for the information.