The newest form of the iPhone just came out in the iPhone 4G. Now, I missed the original iPhone, and was slow to get the iPhone 3G--it had been out over eight months--and I never got the 3GS. But this time, I’m not making the same mistake.
Now I haven’t gotten the 4G yet, hence the “pre-experience” part of the title. But I’d thought I’d talk about the top five features I’m looking forward to, then do a review after I’ve spent some quality time with my own personal 4G. So in ascending order of anticipation, here is what I’m looking forward to.
5. Multitasking - On my 3G there is none, but since I’ve never had a smartphone that did, multitasking wasn’t something that bothered me too much. Sure, I have to suffer through app load times, but it’s only a few seconds of my life. However, being able to flip between apps like my laptop should be sweet.
4. Noise-Suppressor - This addition is something I can really get behind. A great blessing and curse of my 3G is its incredible microphone pickup levels. Of course when outside, it tends to get a bit muddled. It will be great to have a second mic to filter out the background noise.
3. App Folders - I hate doing it, but every couple of months I go through the laborious process of reorganizing my apps. I put the ones I really use at the front, the ones I kinda use in the middle, and so on. And of course as soon as I’m done, the first app I need to use is on page seven. I can’t wait to put similar apps into folders, then have one page of folders!
2. Unified Inbox - Yeah, this is a major drag not to have. Imagine having a page with a list of inboxes--mail accounts--choosing one, choosing its inbox, reading the mail, going back to folders, back to all inboxes, choosing another inbox, and so forth. So frustrating, especially since the standard mail program on mac computers is unified. This can’t come soon enough!
1. FaceTime - Oh baby this will be so cool! We can actually make video phone calls now! Remember Dick Tracy and his video watch? How about all those spy movies? Well FaceTime joins them in supercool status by being a video-phone program. Seriously, video conferencing is great, especially with laptops. But to make a video call... well, I just wish I could show it to my eight-year-old self.
Sometime soon I will return to this topic to tell you how my iPhone 4G experience actually is. In the meantime, leave a comment and tell me about yours.
