willl
4/365 - an i for iPhone
Lighting:
- SB-600 camera right and up high into 32" shoot-through brolly triggered using CLS. 1/16 power.
- SB-800 as Master/Commander on camera shooting straight up set to 1/128 power.
Originally setup a gridded YongNuo YN-460 on a very low power setting to camera left on the same surface as the iPhone. But removed it in the end. No, I don't need all those strobes, but heck sometimes it feels good pulling 'em all out ;)
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Brought an iPhone just before Christmas to replace my HTC s740, which had unfortunately died due to an aqua infection (er, accidental droppage into H2O). Sad to lose that phone, as I reckon it was one of the best Windows Mobile based phones.
Although I had resisted joining the iSomething crowd for quite awhile, in the end I succumbed. Mostly due to cost factors.
Although there is much upside to the iPhone, there's still a whole lot missing, And there's way too many restrictions for those who don't "jailbreak" their phones.
My most used app thus far would have to be the weather app, Pocket Weather AU Lite. Next to that would have to be TweetDeck and Facebook for iPhone. There's a few more apps installed here and there. Though I must say, I use Google Reader a heck of a lot. But then again, I used Google Reader extensively with the webkit based Iris Browser on my Windows Mobile device.
Recently installed DropBox and can see myself liking it. Why? Because I can upload up to 2GB of files to DropBox and then have that ready on my iPhone. Things like PDF ebooks come to mind.
However, would have preferred to be able to just put that directly onto the device rather than going through all this crap just to put it on there.
The next thing that annoys me is that I have to open up the calendar app just so I can see what is coming up. Perhaps I was too spoilt by Windows Mobile having the upcoming events listed on the "home" screen.
It's still a bit weird not having a physical keyboard, but i'm slowly adjusting to it.
I guess having come from 2 generations of "smart" phones (though both non-touch based), I came to the iPhone expecting more from it than it does. Whilst there are things that it does great, there's many many areas where it fails or even over-hyped by some. For example, I hate that 3rd party apps can't stay opened in the background. So let's say you've got an app that is streaming music over wifi, normally you'd expect to be able to "minimise it"/"sent to background" and do something else. Unfortunately the only way to have music playing in the background is to use the "iPod" app. Ah well, them's the breaks I guess.
Buyer's remorse? Well, not too much. I knew it's limitations pre-purchase, but still pulled the trigger anyway.
If Windows Mobile 7 is anywhere as good as they say it is going to be and devices are out and running it at the time I needed a new phone, I probably wouldn't have gone the iPhone route. I did briefly consider an Android phone, but range was somewhat limited when I checked in store locally. Basically nothing that caught my eye.
4/365 - an i for iPhone
Lighting:
- SB-600 camera right and up high into 32" shoot-through brolly triggered using CLS. 1/16 power.
- SB-800 as Master/Commander on camera shooting straight up set to 1/128 power.
Originally setup a gridded YongNuo YN-460 on a very low power setting to camera left on the same surface as the iPhone. But removed it in the end. No, I don't need all those strobes, but heck sometimes it feels good pulling 'em all out ;)
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Brought an iPhone just before Christmas to replace my HTC s740, which had unfortunately died due to an aqua infection (er, accidental droppage into H2O). Sad to lose that phone, as I reckon it was one of the best Windows Mobile based phones.
Although I had resisted joining the iSomething crowd for quite awhile, in the end I succumbed. Mostly due to cost factors.
Although there is much upside to the iPhone, there's still a whole lot missing, And there's way too many restrictions for those who don't "jailbreak" their phones.
My most used app thus far would have to be the weather app, Pocket Weather AU Lite. Next to that would have to be TweetDeck and Facebook for iPhone. There's a few more apps installed here and there. Though I must say, I use Google Reader a heck of a lot. But then again, I used Google Reader extensively with the webkit based Iris Browser on my Windows Mobile device.
Recently installed DropBox and can see myself liking it. Why? Because I can upload up to 2GB of files to DropBox and then have that ready on my iPhone. Things like PDF ebooks come to mind.
However, would have preferred to be able to just put that directly onto the device rather than going through all this crap just to put it on there.
The next thing that annoys me is that I have to open up the calendar app just so I can see what is coming up. Perhaps I was too spoilt by Windows Mobile having the upcoming events listed on the "home" screen.
It's still a bit weird not having a physical keyboard, but i'm slowly adjusting to it.
I guess having come from 2 generations of "smart" phones (though both non-touch based), I came to the iPhone expecting more from it than it does. Whilst there are things that it does great, there's many many areas where it fails or even over-hyped by some. For example, I hate that 3rd party apps can't stay opened in the background. So let's say you've got an app that is streaming music over wifi, normally you'd expect to be able to "minimise it"/"sent to background" and do something else. Unfortunately the only way to have music playing in the background is to use the "iPod" app. Ah well, them's the breaks I guess.
Buyer's remorse? Well, not too much. I knew it's limitations pre-purchase, but still pulled the trigger anyway.
If Windows Mobile 7 is anywhere as good as they say it is going to be and devices are out and running it at the time I needed a new phone, I probably wouldn't have gone the iPhone route. I did briefly consider an Android phone, but range was somewhat limited when I checked in store locally. Basically nothing that caught my eye.