iPhone - one week later

I have been using a Windows Mobile phone since the beginning of the century. I never had any huge issues with either the OS or the phone. But I have to admit that lately my old Sony Xperia X1 is well, old.

So last week I decided to start testing an iPhone to get hands on experience. I have been using an iPhone 3GS so no 4 yet, but since I was more interested in the experience etc. I hope it was good enough.

There are only a few things that I really "miss":

1. Mini-USB - since I have had a similar telephone for a while a lot of my hardware infrastructure is built on top of Mini-USB. As an example I always charged my phone in the car. Well… I hope this will change with the upcoming standardization to micro-USB for phones.
2. At a glance view on the look screen. I have a lot of meetings etc. I have really grown accustomed to simply power on the phone and immediately see when and where the next meeting is. From what I understand this can only be done if you jailbreak your phone, and I haven't.
3. Dialing experience - In my address book I have a lot of short internal telephone-numbers. On my old phone it simply expanded to the correct contact when I entered the numbers, or used SMS-style input. On the iPhone I have to search for contacts in a separate view.
4. Front-facing video camera - I know this is on iPhone 4, but I realize that would be really useful and fun to have and it's not on the 3GS I tested.
   

Things I really like:

1. All sensors… Naturally it is more fun to have a modern phone with gyro, fast GPS etc.
2. On screen Keyboard - I admit it took me a while to get used to the keyboard, but after a while it works fairly ok, and with more practice I guess it will work well.
3. Apps… do I need to say more?
   

Eventually I guess I should also test an Android phone, why not the HTC Desire. But I am also waiting for Windows Phone 7. And with iPhone 4 and HTC Desire HD looming around there is lots of interesting gadgets around the corner!