So, is the iPhone Nirvana in My Pocket?

Hmm, that title is ripe for some horrible comments… But seriously, It’s been almost 4 weeks now, so is it perfect? Does it live up to my exacting standards?

Almost. It’s probably the best smartphone I’ve owned to date. But with that comes some drawbacks for me (you know I had to find something). My only real peeve is having to completely surrender the way I do things with my pocket devices to the way that Apple wants me to use it, but that’s really what Apple is all about isn’t it? It’s there way or the high way.

My negatives really aren’t around the phone itself, but more the software/os. Apple really locks you down to one machine. They’re world is revolves around you owning one machine to do everything, and that’s it. As soon as you cross this boundry to say a mixed environment or mulitple machines, it all goes to hell. Handling the syncing of applications and all data on my iPhone is enough example of this. I like plugging in my device to multiple machines, my PC, my iMac at home, and my Macbook Pro. But trying to keep things sync’d properly without accidentally wiping my data off my phone can be challenging. I’ve already lost my songs, playlists and apps on more than one occasion now, because iTunes decided that hey, I’m supposed to sync, and hey this computer doesn’t have these songs, so I’ll just wipe them off the iPhone.

The problem here could just be that I’m just not well educated on the nuances of managing iPhone (iPod Touch too) data on multiple machines. But I was really annoyed that I couldn’t get my playlists of my iPod Touch to my iPhone…

The other area of annoyance is the lack of customization with the sounds on your phone. I like that I could taylor my own sounds on my WinMo Phone, but I’m sort of stuck with what Apple has given me for SMS sounds and email sounds. Luckily they let you make your own ringtones… Once again, this is minor, but I had to point it out.

If Apple can make it easier to manage with multiple machines (or if someone can show me a good way to do this and still manage to keep my sync’d data), and let me change all the system sounds, I would consider this perfect (until I find the next thing that bugs me).