The UI and the transitions between screens are awesome! I've never seen any phone user interface or PDA interface looks so smooth and have so much eye candy. The Google Maps widget is better than the web app!
There aren't many things I can fault with this phone but I do have a list:
- No way to highlight, copy and paste text
- No advanced preferences for mail, like marking the entire account as read, or only downloading unread messages on first poll
- Can't re-organize widget icons on home screen
- No instant messaging app or widget
- No Bluetooth sync - syncing is done through iTunes through a USB cable, but I can't imagine why you can't sync contacts and calendars through iSync like everything else does
- YouTube widget can't be tied to an existing YouTube account
- No video recording
- No games???!!!
- No one-touch dialing or voice dialing
- Virtual keyboard not for people with big hands or large fingers
- No way to use music in iTunes as ringtones
- Needs a camera of a higher resolution
Okay, so that's the bad list...here's the good list:
- Zooming in and out of pictures and text is a major breakthrough
- Navigating through iTunes via CoverFlow is awesome
- Navigating through list by scrolling and swiping a finger across the screen is so intuitive
- iPod can play music through the iPhone's speakerphone
- The screen is really bright
- Anything I didn't mention was simply awesome...I'm in total awe of this device
So far everything has been pretty smooth. Even setting it up on my wireless network at home was simple.
Was the device worth the hype? I think for the most part it was. It's an incredible device that does most things really well and puts it in an absolutely beautiful form factor, but do get the 8 GB model since that available space is for everything, including the phone's OS.
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