Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
I Finally Gave In
Yes the rumors are true ... After nearly 7 years with SprintPCS and several different Palm Treo smartphones, I finally gave in and made the switch to AT&T and picked up an iPhone. I figured I would let all my friends be the early adopters this time around before I took the plunge. I have to say I'm quite thrilled at the moment. Cheers!
*UPDATE* I posted this in my comments but thought it might be good to include it on the main post for anyone who is curious. The iPhone does integrate with and full 2-way sync with Outlook. It's done using iTunes as the middleware connector application. When you setup up your iPhone in iTunes, you choose where you would like to sync contacts, calander and even email from. Outlook is fully supported. I'm personally using Outlook 2007 and when I setup and sync'd my iPhone today for the first time, it immediatly downloaded all of my contacts and appointments from Outlook. I also tried the reverse by adding and editing contacts on the iPhone, and it added the new contact and made the changes to Outlook.
Boring...everyone knows it's all about the new apple flip phone these days!
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Jerry Timms @ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:24:00 PM
Congrats! It looks cool but doesn't support Outlook yet or I would have gotten one instead of my BlackBerry. Hope that your really happy with your purchase and the coverage that AT&T Offers. I've been with them for many years and had my issues but coverage was never one of them.
Have a blast this weekend too!
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Jeremy Ryan @ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:42:00 PM
Jeremy I'm not sure what your talking about by saying it dosen't support Outlook because it indeed does sync directly with Outlook Contacts and Calendars. I use Outlook 2007 on a PC and I had absolutely no problem syncing all my contacts and appointments the minute I pluggged it in today. They are also about to roll out full MS Exchange push support in cooperation with Microsoft in the next software update.
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Rich Brown @ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:02:00 PM
It's funny because there is a Gizmodo article today saying that Gartner officially recommended iPhone for business...and people's comments are all just downright angry. Almost every comment has inaccurate info - the iPhone can't open office docs, have a message in progress while you talk on the phone, needs a new battery every 1.5 years, can't have exchange email, doesn't support javascript, etc. It's all wrong, and funny that their responses are so emotional and funny. "So many websites require Flash that the iPhone is basically useless." Huh? :)
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Jerry Timms @ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:46:00 PM
That's so funny that you just gave in. I really did not even want one until about two or three weeks ago and then the urge started.
I am going to wait for this summer and see if Apple releases a new product for Cingular's faster network. If I make it into an early birthday gift for myself, I won't feel so about about dropping 500 bucks for it.
Let me know how you like it. Have a good time in Montreal too! Bonne vacances!
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by SilentBob @ Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:21:00 PM
