iHate iPhone, v2

Well, the iPhone v2 lasted three days before I returned it, for these reasons:

No cell connection in my house or on my way to work, even though I always had great connection with my AT&T blackberry. (I'm told that the 3G iPhone coverage is not that great in many areas.)

The battery lasts less than a day. (I'm told that 3G consumes batteries.)

I could not tell which part of the phone was the top vs bottom each time I picked it up.

The keyboard sucks. It really, really does. (Most Apple lovers will first say they learned to type almost as fast on the iPhone as their prior qwerty phone, until you challenge them to a typing contest, at which point they say "well, you really shouldn't type that much on a phone anyway, because we enlightened Apple lovers learn to smell the roses (when we're not playing games on our iPhones)".

The iPhone kept crashing. Really.

Many common operations were significantly slower on iPhone than on Blackberry. For example, when I want to lookup a contact on the Blackberry, I pickup my Blackberry, roll-click Contacts and start typing the first letter(s) of the contacts name. On the iPhone, I pick it up, press the home button, wait for it to light up, then I see it put me back to the last application I was using, which is usually not the one I use now. So then I hit the Home button again. Then I go down to Contacts. But then I notice that the iPhone doesn't have a search function, instead, it thinks you need only use its clever drag-scroll (sometimes with initial right column click to letter index), which works fine when you have a couple hundred contacts, but not when you are a business user with a couple thousand contacts.

I could go on, and on, but you get the point. The iPhone is a toy. It is not for someone who treats mobile productivity (phone, email, contacts, calendar) seriously.

Maybe I will try again with the iPhone v3 in a year. But for now, I have only one question -- will it blend?

¶11:24 PM