Blogging with iPhone
June 29, 2007
The iPhone has landed, and it’s amazing. The keyboard works better than I expected, especially the wide keyboard in Safari. I want to get back to playing now though.
And I’m back. The WordPress interface works really nicely in Safari. Login, click “Write,” and double-tap on the text field to zoom in and bring up the keyboard. The amount of press that the virtual keyboard received seems ridiculous once you’ve used it. Only peeve is that all punctuation, even the period, is on a separate pane. However, in the time it’s taken me to write this, I’ve memorized the location of the most-used glyphs. No idea how it handles accented characters.
From what I can tell, the iPhone includes the following typefaces: Courier, Georgia, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, and Verdana. I am surprised that it doesn’t include Lucida Grande. I am happy that it doesn’t include Comic Sans.
The RSS reader is really nice. You don’t have to go to the reader.mac.com address that was publicized earlier this week. Just type the feed URL into Safari (or select it in your bookmarks) and it automatically routes the feed through the web app and presents it in HTML.
My experience at the local AT&T store was pretty good. They came through the line with free water two or three times, and once they let the first group in, the process went quickly. They weren’t doing credit checks, but we were told that we could choose to have it done in the store if we wanted. My saleslady knew exactly what she was doing, but the one beside her did try to sell a woman a set of earphones and a USB cable before the manager came over to explain that those things were included in the box. It was her first customer, though. We didn’t get those fancy commemorative tote bags or whatever the Apple stores were handing out, but I didn’t have to drive five hours to get there, either. I was fourth in line at 2pm. This was at the AT&T store in Daphne, Alabama.
As everyone already knows, there’s no Flash support, however inline QuickTime movies play beautifully. So, everyone just deliver all content in QuickTime from now on. Thanks.
When I put the iPhone in my Volvo iPod cradle, it charges, but the audio doesn’t play through the car speakers. Bummer. I’m surprised, because the Volvo cradle is little more than a 30-pin dock connector split to audio line-out and power. I really hope Apple can resolve this with a software update.
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Wow… sounds very cool. Would love to get my hands on one, but whatcha gonna do when you live in the UK.
I always had quite some faith in the keyboard, but it’s good that you’ve given us more opinions to include… drool…
I am very happy that the decide met your expectations.
These are exciting times!
It seems like Matt Mullenweg did not have your luck in being able to get it activated.
http://photomatt.net/2007/06/30/iphone-disappointment/
I saw that—I thought I commented on his post, but it must not have gone through. At any rate, the troubles with activation seem pretty random, even happening to existing customers. Activation for me happened just as you’d expect—like John Gruber, it just took a few moments.
Hey matt, I just recently bought an iPod touch and figured out that if you space twice it will put in a period, also if you hold the letter that you want, several accent symbols would come up. Just wanted to tell you, it seemed like you didn’t know how to get either of those :P