iWant?

mrbrown's had us zipping straight into Apple's website with word that the iPhone is coming soon. Wii wanted to see how impressive the iPhone was gonna be, whether it would wow us like how the (third generation? easily put, click-wheel colour screen generation) iPod did.

Impressions? Measurements shows it to be about as big as our iPod, only half an inch longer! That's a plus. Aesthetically speaking, it's top-notch (on the webpage it's top-notch at least) whatwith a full 3.5inch screen (almost the whole front of it's the screen!), a handy size and how many buttons? Only the visible one in front (Wii sees the Hold button and the earphone jack on top)!

Now that that's out of the way. Wii likes the way it's gonna be a Multitouch screen - that's handy if Wii ever do photo resizing on the iPhone. Other than that, using fingers for the screen is much more handier compared to using a stylus for the job, however, Wii needs reassurance that the screens is not gonna get scratched. One thing about text imput though...Wii're back into the QWERTY soft keyboard and Wii guess there'll be no writing input. At times Wii get sick of using the stylus to write already (and eyeing the Nok7390 because of this), plus Wii needs to use both hands and see the screen while Wii do so. With the QWERTY keyboard, would the buttons be big enough to press or do Wii resort to thumbnails? Yes, there be a predictive app to correct mistakes but hey, Wii wants to keep to the 160-letter cap at times yes?

Internet functions look good, at least there's WiFi 'cos GPRS is Expensive. But it's not a 3G phone :( Not that that matters much at the mo anyway, no one really uses video calls now do they? Connectivity-wise, still the big Ex stops us.

Wii gave up using our Nok7710 phone for a cam (unless it's bright out, or it doesn't require focusing much on something) as it's slightly grainy but more because it's SLOW, that job's gone to our iXus Ixus now. Only if Wii wants to do some picture editing or for MMS purposes then only the phonecam comes into play. It's a shame our Nok7710 can't do macros, else Wii'd be able to do more damage to other ppl via MMS when Wii have sinful sinful meals.

Another concern (that probably only matters to Nok7710 users like us) - program opening can be a bit sluggish. With the software update it's now slightly better but some programs still take a wee bit too long for our liking (near-instant, it ought to be), like for opening Word docs. Wii don't think PDA users have this issue.

Oh, while it's 4GB or 8GB of memory, it's non-removable. Neither's the battery. Our iPod's already used up 20GB, plus since it's a phone Wii'll be more concerned in preserving battery life.

All in all, Wii thinks it's somewhat like our Nok7710 (but so much more elegant) but that won't stop us slavering over it when it finally reaches MYhome shores. And Wii would wonder about the price tag - Wii'd splurged 400 quid for our Nok7710 when it first came out (Wii haven't the heart to look at the price now, 3 years down the road) and it has served us faithfully all this time. Wii don't have another 400 quid for phones, and Wii'd only get one that'll wow our socks off...Wii're still waiting for iPhone to do that.