[Noir]

requoting what I wrote in another thread

I can't say I am loving it whatsover...in fact because I am still a student in school, I find it obtrusive when I am trying to access genebank or nimh when conducting research even from the school portal or the username/pass provided by my school for the databases. One slight saving grace for me is the good reader application that blows the windows mobile adobe reader out of the water. Problem is getting the pdfs downloaded to the device. I can find an en passe with the iphone as it is good at rendering graphics and even 3d acceleration. Problem is, for my personal tastes, it lacks in a varieyt of categories when you're not doing anything media related.

Take for example just listening to music and texting - the simplest of tasks. On a palm pre, it is fantastic and the multi tasking is exquisite. On windows mobile it wasn't bad but using the stock interface text message typing is much slower. But surprisingly on both iphone 2g and iphone 3gs it was terribly slow. If I had to type up a discussion response on an iphone and wanted to listen to music, the iphone was horribly slow. The media experience (movie rather) on iphone is just not superior to the touch pro 2 with either core or tcpmp installed, I get a greater experience and the ability to play most formats known to man on the fly.

I recognize what I do like about the iphone. The physics behind the scrolling engine is bar none the best I have used, with palm pre as a close second. What apple does with the capacitive touch screen revolutionized the industry as far as displaying information in your face. The GPU acceleration is bar none some of the best i have seen on a mobile device. But then when you get to using it for actual work (something like database retrieval of scientific/psychological articles on the daily basis), the only thing it is best at is reading adobe. And most database articles are in adobe AND in html AND in full text. This is where my touch pro 2 and even verizon touch pro shines in comparison to the iphone.

So when I say I am bored with the iphone, its beyond the fact of customization, beta madness of the new wm builds, giving full freedom of what I can do. It is also the fact of whether or not the phone suits my need in a scientific environment, as a student and as a researcher. The iphone is not equipped for either yet. Will that change? Hope so because so far I try work on the device and it is SLOWER than a windows mobile chug.

that essentially is why iphone is not for me. It doesn't suit my needs