A couple of new reviews up this week. I broke down as promised in my Griffin Nu Form case review and purchased an Incase Slider for my new 3G iPhone and here’s my review of it. Hawk Pettengill has contributed another review to macgirl.net (thanks, Hawk!) of the Ultimate Buds UB5 headset – you can check it out here…
Apple event excitement
There’s a little excitement coming tomorrow with the Apple event scheduled for 10:00 a.m. PST. I will be tuned in, as usual, blatantly ignoring my work and possibly shushing my co-workers for the duration (though I’m thinking some of my co-workers will also be paying attention to it). It looks like one of my favorite coverage sources for events like this, Macrumors.com, won’t be there live, so I think I’ll default to Engadget or Gizmodo to get the scoop as it happens.
Kevin Rose of Digg has provided a lot of the rumors for this event, describing a new iPod Nano and iTunes 8, and iPod Touch 2.1 firmware, with the firmware update available soon after for the iPhone. I am always excited to hear about new Apple products, but I’m particularly interested in the new firmware for the iPhone since I’ve been pretty disappointed with the stability of mine. I’ve suffered from the dreaded apps-closing-as-soon-as-they-are-opened issue that I could only solve by uninstalling and reinstalling all of my apps. And Google Maps will often not find my location at all, even after waiting for 10 minutes for it to get a fix. I get nothing. Bupkes. Not even the large circle telling me I’m somewhere within the prescribed 5-mile radius when I’m out in the open with nary a tree or high-rise building in sight. Oh, and I’ve found that music will start playing when I plug my headphones in at random. And I am so sick and tired of the keyboard lag in every application where I try to type something. I may be intentionally mis-remembering things, but wasn’t 1.1.4 far more stable and problem-free than this?
You’ll be happy to know that I bought another case for my 3G iPhone – as promised in my Griffin Nu Form case review, I did get the new Incase Slider. I broke down before they released any new colors and simply got it in matte black. It’s on my iPhone now and it sure is purdy. Look for a review on it shortly.
Alright, back to work!
Griffin Nu form case review up, new blog, and a temporary new look for macgirl.net
My review of the Griffin Nu Form case for the 3G iPhone is now up – you can read it here. All in all, it’s not a case that I like and I’m looking forward to replacing it with the 3G version of a hard case that I loved for my first-generation iPhone. And my blogs are finally merged into a new and improved one, so subscribe to the new RSS feed for this one – see the link to the right below the ads. The new look to my site is temporary (fingers crossed!) as I work through some issues with the site development software that I use and my regular site theme, so don’t get too used to it!
I really don’t like MobileMe
I first wrote the title to this blog post using the word “hate” to describe how I feel about MobileMe (the web apps in particular) but I’m trying to stay away from this extreme since all of these issues came up on one day (today) and maybe MobileMe is just having a bad day. Or month. Whatever. I remember Phil Schiller talking about the web interface at the WWDC keynote, describing that they would be easy to use and a lot like their desktop counterparts. Well, they’re not.
Issue 1:
I ‘reply all’ to an email to plan an outing with some friends. When I hit send, I get an error that one of the email addresses is formatted incorrectly. I didn’t change the addresses at all, and double-check them – they are all correct. I hit send again. And again. That error message keeps popping up. I go back and delete and re-enter the email addresses by hand, which finally works.
Issue 2:
I add a contact, thinking it will be faster to do via MobileMe than on my iPhone since I can type faster on a computer keyboard. I create the new contact and try to drag and drop it into the primary group that I use on my iPhone. The icon that represents the drag and drop gets stuck in the middle of the interface and won’t budge, and any further attempts to do it again are unsuccessful.
Issue 3:
I want to send an email to a group of friends, and try to browse my full contacts list from which to select emails. I’m going through the list and realize that some of my friends are now shown. Oh no! Did they get deleted from my address book? I go to check and they are indeed there, but just aren’t showing up in the list in the new email window. Why this is happening is a mystery.
Whiskey tango foxtrot! I never used the web interface often with .mac before the MobileMe roll-out, so I don’t have much of a comparison basis, but this sucks and it doesn’t “just work.” I was lucky enough to not be one of those whose email accounts essentially stopped working during the MobileMe implementation, but if this sort of thing continues, I’ll re-consider renewing my subscription to MobileMe when it’s up later this year…
3G iPhone v. iPhone comparison review
I’ve now had my 3G iPhone for a little over two weeks now, and I’ve completed my comparison review between it and my first generation 8GB iPhone. Thinking about upgrading from a first generation iPhone? Or thinking about buying an iPhone and not sure which version you should get? Read my review here to learn about the major differences between the two to help you make your decision…
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