Kardinal Virtues

You may have read my post about the things I don’t like about my iPhone.

But there are many things I love about the iPhone. And I do LOOOOOVE them. You’ll note that all of them are entertainment and personally oriented, not business oriented. Again, approximately in priority order.

1. It’s more stable. MUCH more stable. Not perfect, especially with some third party apps, but I haven’t had to reboot it to make a phone call yet. Actually, there was this one time, but I can chalk that up to one-offs…so far.

2. Much faster and better browser. Safari is pretty quick, includes tabs, and loads pictures as fast as my old 6700 loaded text-only. It doesn’t word-wrap on zoom, unfortunately, but it’s better overall.

3. WiFi is picked up so easily and nicely. It even picked up our Enterprise WiFi at work without a hitch. I never used WiFi on my 6700, I use it all the time on my iPhone, and of course, it’s much faster than 3G.

4. It’s faster than my 6700 at almost everything.

5. The higher resolution is just beautiful, for everything. Love it.

6. The voice quality is far superior. Especially when using the included hands free kit, it’s just beautiful compared to my old 6700. I hated talking on that thing without a hands free, but with my iPhone, it’s not bad at all. Including the speakerphone, which my brother today said was so good he didn’t know I was on it. Nice.

7. IT STREAMS! The content available on this thing, for free, anywhere, is fantastic. Between AOL radio and Pandora, I can get all kinds of content I might want anywhere. Now if only I can get it to stream Redskins games and WBAP from Texas, I’ll be so set it’s amazing.

8. Better Google Reader – I’ve been using Google Reader more and more recently on the desktop, and I’m enjoying having access to News I really want. The Google Reader on the iPhone gives me previews much like on the desktop, instead of just titles as you get on Google Reader Mobile over the web, which is all I could get on my 6700.

9. More News – I do love the Mobile News app. Just right up my newshog alley.

10. Twitterrific and Twinkle make Twitter so much better. I’m Twittering more and enjoying being connected to people both by Twitter and locality. Just more amusement.

11. I found I don’t mind playing from the iPod through the car speaker as much as I thought I would. It’s still annoying to control it from the iPhone, but it’s manageable, and gives me access to podcasts my in-car audio won’t play. Sort of my backup content when my in-car SD player runs out of content for the week, and the new TWiT isn’t posted yet.

12. The Camera is useful. My 6700’s camera stank, but this one is actually useful and interesting.

13. Speakers are actually listenable. I actually find that I can listen to a podcast straight off the speakers, as long as things around me are quiet. So I have podcasts or music pretty much anywhere. Comes in handy occasionally.