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See CNET TV:
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Actually, I think my iPhone is pretty good – but it gets used nowhere near enough to justify it’s (monthly) cost! Not enough storage to replace my iPod, and not enough battery to actually use it seriously …

Worst, of course, is coverage. Basically zero coverage at or near work. Sometimes it’ll lie and indicate coverage – so long as I don’t actually try to use it. Sometimes, it’s more honest and simply reports “No Service”.
Tonight, I got home – where I normally do have a few bars – and the iPhone continued to report “No Service”. Finally I re-booted (switched off, then on again – a technique taught by Microsoft), and suddenly I have four bars! Also, I got an alert to a missed call, from 9 hours earlier!
So, AT&T had cell trouble which they happened to repair while my iPhone reset – or the iPhone gets screwy with it’s connections … Apple, do you care?

Why can’t my iPhone makes calls and check for missed calls over WiFi – it’d work great at the office then!

Josh’s 3G equipped iPhone spent a few days at work claiming no 3G service, then eventually no service at all – but today it discovered lots of service again! I wonder if he reset his iPhone last night?

What else … My car doesn’t seem able to access the addresses in the iPhone, to navigate to them. Maybe it’s a Bluetooth limitation, rather than iPhone, but it still sucks.
There’s too many apps. And most aren’t worth using. If there’s any that actually might be good, how do you find them anyway?!
I use Photogene regularly (excellent program), and WordPress (rather buggy, but just about better than using Safari); I like the USA TODAY app – but rarely use it since at work and home it’s far easier to use a real, full size, computer to check for news!
Shazam is very cool, assuming the iPhone mic can pick up the music.
I used to use Pandora (really nice), but now I use just iTunes and, via Simplify, play my home music collection on my office PC.
DirecTV is useful maybe once a month, to record a new program while I’m away from home – but mostly Tivo records everything I want already.

Some time wasters are fun (Koi Pond, Space Out, Pipes, Marple, Pocket God) – but playing on a full screen is easier.

I’ve been looking forward to the new iPhone coming next month, supposedly with a better camera – and for me, GPS. But I don’t really need either since I already own various cameras, and GPS navigation systems … the more I think about AT&T, and their crazy pricing, and their worse-and-worse behaviour (no running Sling on an iPhone, for example), the more annoyed it makes me – and just try to use your iPhone in Europe, and watch your wallet empty!

I’d love an iPhone on a different carrier …
Sprint works well at our office – even down in the basement (under a few feet of concrete and steel!); T-Mobile is excellent (a cell tower across the street), but no coverage at home; Verizon is so-so everywhere, but at least it doesn’t say “No Service”.

So, ignore the new iPhone and wait for a new carrier? Or give AT&T the rest of everything I own? Hmmm …