David Pogue's iPhone FAQ. Stuff I notice:
- Touchscreen requires skin contact, no gloves or styluses.
- Standard headphones don't sit well in the headphone jack, but you'll be able to buy an adapter.
- No disk mode. I'm guessing this dashes my hopes for being able to copy PDFs directly to the phone for offline browsing, though I can always mail them to myself.
- No video out to a TV (like the video iPod does).
- Bluetooth only works with headsets, not computers. Apparently the world has conspired to prevent me from ever having a use for Bluetooth.
- USB cradle syncing is improved, no need to unmount to remove it from the cradle. One more daily annoyance out the window! I worry I'll miss my bus if I take the time to unmount my iPod properly.
- "The iPhone comes with presets for Gmail, AOL and Yahoo Mail. You can also set up standard POP3 and IMAP accounts." I won't have to give up my Gmail-slurps-my-POP-account set-up, though I might give it up anyway when the new Mail in Mac OS X 10.5 comes out in October.
- iPhone Safari will sync bookmarks with your Mac or PC. i wondered if I'd be able to bookmark stuff I find while browsing on the phone, then come back to it later on a computer. Nice.
- Safari won't remember passwords. Eh? Security risk?
- Safari won't stream audio or video—"except for some QuickTime videos." That doesn't fully answer the question for downloadable MP3s or MP4s off of web sites: I wouldn't expect to be able to store downloaded music and videos, or stream using obscure streaming technology or Flash plugins, but with a basic QuickTime plugin it might still be able to play the downloadable files from within the browser. Fingers crossed.
- No iPod to-do or Notes, and I assume that's related to "no disk mode." But it's got its own notes app, and I assume that'll sync with something, no?
Apple already has a web-based iPhone app, an RSS reader.
