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There have been enormous amounts of news (mostly fluff and hot air) surrounding Apple’s attempt at a cellular device over the past year and a half. There was also a lot of hubbub about how the Blackberry would hold its own against the iPhone and whether or not Apple was working with RIM to develop a device that met in the middle.

Well now we really have the iPhone (provided that the FCC signs off on it). It’s a big old iPod with a super touch screen and a nav button. You knew that since it was coming from Apple, we would all be able to marvel in its simplicity. I did not, however, count on no button-oriented keyboard. The keyboard is also part of the touch screen loveliness. All in all I’m very impressed with the device. It’ll most likely end up being able to synchronize with a plethora of applications on different platforms. It plays movies and music, and it’s smaller than the Motorola Q. This is the first device that has made me consider skipping out on the Blackberry 8800 which will not likely be priced much better than the $499 entry price for the 4gb iPhone.

I have other concerns about this device, namely about the feel of the touchscreen keyboard, its responsiveness, the lack of push mail, and the screen. I am on my fourth iPod and that shiny finish on the front of the iPods usually last about 15 minutes. Between tiny scratches and fingerprints a brand new iPod can look months old in a matter of hours. How is the screen on this iPhone going to work with smudges and light wear/scratching? I am sure that there will be a bajillion products out there to protect the screen within a second of the device’s launch, but I’m still curious as to how it will hold up.

Unlike a Blackberry purchase, I am going to take my time thinking about the iPhone. I think that I am going to have to hear some first hand reviews and spend some quality time wit it at a Cingular store before I convince myself to buy it.

Apple - iPhone

Yet again, Vonage makes me proud to be a customer:

Vonage SoftPhone for OS X coming

[MacMinute]

So I gave up on Mail.app. I know a couple of people who couldn’t wrap their head around why I would settle for Mail.app in the first place. In retrospect, I wonder the same thing. I guess Mail.app was less cumbersome, slow, and irritating when I started to use it. Maybe I thought it would be less burdensome to my old desktop which was already laboring under the weight of Jaguar which was really slow and cumbersome by itself compared to 10.1 and Panther. Maybe the competition was a bit sad then. Entourage is bloated and I use it for school and school alone. Eudora never felt quite right on the Mac to me. I guess a bunch of things back then pushed me to Mail.app, and I guess it was OK for a while.

Mail.app has horrible IMAP support and I guess that’s what is driving me away. All of the waiting and the errors for problems that don’t exist get tired after a while. I’ve moved to Thunderbird and I’m very happy. I started playing around with it on my iBook and it’s very quick to load, receive, and send messages. That’s what I needed and that’s what I got. I’m going to miss the Address Book integration but I won’t die without it. Address Book is more important to cell/palm usage than to e-mail. I’ll survive.

What client do you use? Feel free to share your experiences.

I signed up for a Spymac account to see what all the buzz was about. They beat Google to the punch with the 1gb of storage, but they could’ve at least rolled it out slowly or made sure that their network could handle the load. First of all e-mail is busted (can’t send, have’t tried receiving), and I can’t publish my iCal. Yeah I know it’s because of all of the new accounts but still. I like the layout and the services (WebDAV, etc), and it’s very generous that they give you a blog and something like 350mb of additional storage, but it’s all moot if you can’t use it. I’ll stick with it for a couple of months and see if it eventually begins to work.

Mental Note: This is NOT the way to roll out new services.

The longer I own a Mac and use OS X, the harder it is for me to remember why I suffered through several releases of Windows. I mean, I know why.. back then MacOS was a joke. But now, the tables are turned and I just don’t understand how people who use Windows products get to sleep at night. Since I’ve delved into OS X I haven’t worried about viruses, trojans, mass data loss, corrupted partition tables, defragmenting my drives… you know.. the list goes on and on. Furthermore, I can’t remember why I ever defended Wintel.

The funny thing is, the more I use a Mac, the more I pity PC users. I think this is kinda the same for Linux/Unix users too. You just want to pat the Windows users on the head and tell them that everything is going to be alright while deep inside you know it will never be for them. *sigh* The only thing worse than the poor sheep that are scared of getting out of their Windows rut are the Windows freaks who try to talk down to everyone who doesn’t use Windows while they don’t realize that without Apple and Unix, there would never have been DOS or Windows in the first place. *sigh*

After 8 hours of helpdesk, this is particularly funny: http://homepage.mac.com/deadtroll5/.Movies/wesmonocable.rm