iPhone - Somewhere in Between!

I had been happily using a Palm/Treo for about ten years. I ditched it last week when I finally succumbed to the temptations of iPhone. Being a Mac user and fan for a few years, I had very high expectations from the iPhone. I expected it to seamlessly sync with my mac’s Contacts, iCal, Mail, iPhoto and iTunes…which it did beautifully well with a touch of a button! It even copied my bookmarks from Safari! I finally browsed the Internet, logged into my blogs, checked the stats, looked at flight schedules, browsed the movies in local theaters, watched a couple of trailers and even booked movie tickets - none of which I’d ever do on any other handheld! Now I also open the attachments to email - even Excel looks pretty on iPhone! Plus other cool features like the intelligent keyboard, Mac-type widgets, scrolling and twitching and turning pages, are all WOW!

Now comes the SHIT part: It has blue tooth but only for headset; can’t transfer files! It has SMS but can’t do group SMS; plus there’s no outbox for unsent messages! There’s no copy, cut and paste function. So I can’t copy numbers or info from a text message to contacts or calendar - I need to have a PAPER and PEN! Notes in iPhone can’t sync with any application on Mac; so there’s no backup! And it doesn’t have multiple color-coded calendars like in Mac or Treo. No more red dots showing trips, or purple dots showing birthdays, or green dots for commitments with family or friends! I miss my Treo

While iPhone is way ahead in lot of things, it’s a step back for me in a lot of ways. So I say, it’s both WOW and SHIT, or somewhere in between! I should have listened to you, Hamza