Another Lawyer’s Review of the iPhone

If you are looking for an in-depth review of the iPhone by an attorney, you should check out Finis Price‘s review published at his TechnoEsq blog.  His article takes a close look at this technological wonder and all its many functions, and he describes what he likes and dislikes about the iPhone.

His review even includes a comparison chart of the iPhone vs. other PDAs and Smartphones.  Some of the highlights of his review are listed below, but I urge you to read his entire article for a much fuller view of the iPhone.

• Aesthetically, the iPhone begs to be touched, yet fingerprints are not a problem.  The screen is so vibrant, any fingerprints are simply not visible.
• As for accessories, you may have to buy some new ones. Some of your iPod accessories will work with the iPhone and some won’t. You’ll just have to experiment. The iPhone will inform you when you plug an accessory in whether it will function or not.
• My 7 year-old nephew Hunter figured out on his own how to view photographs, listen to my iPod and view movies in a few seconds (though he is the smartest 7 year-old I know, I don’t think he could do the same on a Treo).
• Typing on the iPhone is quite a bit different than typing on a Treo or a Blackberry. Instead of having the predictive type guessing what you are typing and attempting to predict it, the iPhone simply waits until you’ve typed the word and attempts to correct the word taking into account that you may have hit the wrong key when typing. It works very well and if you trust it, you can type faster than on any other Smartphone.
• While you can’t perform a search for contacts in the address book, they are sorted into sections for each letter, with each letter accessible by the alphabet running down the right of the screen. I have over 2,000 contacts in my phone and can get from A-Z in 3 seconds and to any letter of the alphabet with one push of my finger. No number takes more than 3 seconds to find.
• Each voicemail is shown, listing the caller and name (if in your address book) much the same way emails are listed in your email. To listen, you simply press the voicemail you want to listen to and it is played back, with the standard slider to rewind and forward just like a video on your computer. This feature alone is worth the price of the iPhone and is one of the revolutionary aspects of this phone.
• The iPhone’s mail program … can check IMAP, POP3 and also supports Push mail from Yahoo!  You can do everything in the mail application you can do with other phones and switch between multiple accounts and account types with the press of a button.
• Because the iPhone runs Apple’s OS X, it contains a full working web browser, Safari. I’m talking about a web page that looks exactly as it does on your desktop. Additionally, you can have more than one window open at a time.
• The iPhone is definitively the best iPod ever made.

Source:  "iPhone Review for Attorneys" by Finis Price, published at his TechnoEsq blog.