Comments on: Going Mobile

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:59:40 +0000

Sky, it was a year because the first iPhone had no GPS, and no indication of solving the deal-breakers. Apparently Sprint is going to sell you your own little cell-phone tower at home, if ATT comes out with this it should solve your prob. Not sure how good my own home connection is/will be; it’s nice up here in the mountains but no email (yet getting weather/google maps?!?!)

Eric, thanks for the feedback. I thought hard about the Centro, love the Palm apps, but the development community is all over the iPhone. And, yes, now Google Maps on Centro does do the cell-phone tower triangulation, but not quite as good as a GPS (tho’ that keychain one is pretty cool). But the browser…

By: Eric Wilbanks

Eric Wilbanks — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:11:12 +0000

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog. Thanks for all the great insights and thought-provoking observations. However, I was sad to read that you chose an iPhone over Palm Centro. :-) My wife and I recently upgraded to Centro (we’re both on ATT). We absolutuely love them and have no complaints thus far. The best thing is all the killer apps for Palm…something Apple will be a long time trying to catch up on. Oh, and we have full internet access (the browser isn’t “wonderful,” but it is sufficient) and we use a Google Maps app in place of a GPS.

By: Sky

Sky — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:51:24 +0000

Fanboy indeed. It took you a year. Well, I am also completely pleased with everything about my new iPhone *except* the phone reception. I get the worst connections I can imagine here on the hill in San Francisco. I would expect the coverage to be great, and usually I have 5 bars, but the connections are so fuzzy and garbled that I only understand half of what is being said. “Can you repeat that?” is taking up 50% of my voice bandwidth. Data, streaming “radio”, email, everything else works like a charm. Voice is just not ready for primetime. My old analog cell phones worked far better than this.

I was thinking of dropping my wireline, but I can’t see it happening until AT&T puts a tower somewhere near me. Gotta go check that now…