Drive Through…

Today, 11th August marks the first full month with my new iPhone. Thoughts so far:

• The back is proving to be very resilient to scratches, more so than my metal backed iPod Touch proved to be
• Battery life is reasonable for me now that the novelty factor has worn off. I mostly get away with charging every other night
• Having data access everywhere is fantastic. I love being able to check Twitter whilst standing in a queue for lunch
• Having data access everywhere is a curse. I’ve been told off by my wife a number of times for checking email etc.
• I’ve only used 28MB of data in a whole month.
• GPS and Google Maps whilst not true sat-nav can be very, very useful. It navigated me around a number of flooded roads on Saturday.
• Not having data when roaming is really annoying (unless you want to pay the huge roaming fee)
• The length of time that backup takes when syncing is annoying
• Twitteriffic, Facebook and Texas Hold ‘Em are my top three apps.
• It does seem kind of slow to draw/refresh/respond to touch when doing some tasks such as opening contacts or the settings page.
• All in all, I love it.