Happily Returning iPhone & Getting Blackberry Back... - Page 6

TrippalHealicks · 07-03-2007, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by mactigger

With all due respect Apple may actually be helping our future generation by not including words in their dictionary such as fo shizzle, or dat instead of that. The list goes on and on. I guess I am one of the very few who speak and type normal proper words, so the keyboard is welcome to me.

Agreed. You can read some of my interventional posts, here on the board, and see that I am a major grammar and literacy ****.
lol

Ljp · 07-03-2007, 04:58 PM

Am I missing something? Where on blackberry can you do mass deletions except for delete all prior which requires you to delete an entire day at a time and won't delete emails prior to the particular email you pick?

I don't know, I've had a blackberry since the first generation. I find the iphone email to be perfectly easy to use and I'm already typing quicker on the iphone keyboard than I do on blackberry.

It would be nice if I could get my work email on here, which I can't currently, but all in all I find this to be a better all around device that's easier to use and more aesthetically pleasing than my old phone, blackberry and ipod together.

ETA-I am an idiot. I just discovered after 8 freaking years or however many it's been that I can hold down the 0 key and roll the scroll and select multiple emails. unfreakingbleievable.

rj5620 · 07-03-2007, 05:13 PM

Taking it back has crossed my mind as I am on my 3rd iphone and this last one works ok, but the coverage in the Cincinnati area is very intermittent. I had lunch at Subway today and the kid behind the counter has ATT with a full 5 bars on his flip phone, my Iphone had no signal. This signal thing drives me crazy and as far as the updates go, the Motorla Q, Treo 650 and a few others that I have had really never had updates to fix known problems. These phones got fixed by being discontinued and version #2 came out. I hear lots of comments about can't wait for firmware, software fix, that may well be wishful thinking. Just my opinion. Seriously considering a return. My phone was on at 8:00 and battery dead at 5:00.

AppleLA · 07-03-2007, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Ljp

Am I missing something? Where on blackberry can you do mass deletions except for delete all prior which requires you to delete an entire day at a time and won't delete emails prior to the particular email you pick?

I don't know, I've had a blackberry since the first generation. I find the iphone email to be perfectly easy to use and I'm already typing quicker on the iphone keyboard than I do on blackberry.

It would be nice if I could get my work email on here, which I can't currently, but all in all I find this to be a better all around device that's easier to use and more aesthetically pleasing than my old phone, blackberry and ipod together.

ETA-I am an idiot. I just discovered after 8 freaking years or however many it's been that I can hold down the 0 key and roll the scroll and select multiple emails. unfreakingbleievable.

Hahaha! That was very funny. Hey - at least you found out. Better than never knowing. : )

i-Fred · 07-03-2007, 10:31 PM

I agree with AppleLA on most counts. What nobody has mentioned is that there is no menu system on the iPhone, all of the apps get their prefs from the main Settings application. So unlike Treo (and I assume BB) -- where there can be tons of menu items to do things (eg select all, delete, empty trash, etc), -- the iPhone only really gives us buttons (and gestures) to take actions. How about a swipe down the screen to delete all email (with confirm)? Hopefully things like this will be addressed soon.

I do love the web browsing, iPod, and youtube functionality, and it is one slick piece of technology.

ebrunn · 07-03-2007, 10:50 PM

Man, you must be really important to get 100 emails a day that you have to read within 15 minutes.

Seriously, get a life or get a blackberry.

Spin This! · 07-03-2007, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by i-Fred

How about a swipe down the screen to delete all email (with confirm)? Hopefully things like this will be addressed soon.

Yeh or maybe a "shrinking" pinch to grab a bunch of mail and then tapping on a trash icon or something...

Everybody griping about the phone doesn't realize this is essentially v1.0 on a new mobile device. Anyone remember Macs OS X 10.0? That version really wasn't very usable until 10.1; imo at least the iPhone does more things right that it does wrong in that respect.

tamakin · 07-03-2007, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by Spin This!

Yeh or maybe "shrinking" pinch to grab a punch of mail and then tapping on a trash icon or something...

wow that's a good idea Spin! I like that!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marksman · 07-03-2007, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by AppleLA

Not sure what your email volume is like, but I get over 100 emails a day, and that is on a slow day. Deleting them after the initial read is fine with me, but then having to go in and delete from the TRASH folder, one by one, is poor planning. You also have to delete from the SENT folder.

I probably get 500 a day. But I don't delete my e-mails I keep them all.
For years and years. In fact I have archives going back to 1994.

On the iPhone I share an Imap setting with my desktop. I delete an ocassional useless e-mail, but I have never had to mass delete anything on the iPhone. That being said I was very careful in setting up my e-mail on the iPhone specifically so I could manage it properly.

Do whatever you want, like what device you want, I doubt anyone else cares that much. If you feel a mass e-mail delete is a requirement for you, well that is your particular set of needs. But acting like your Blackberry is the be-all and end-all or better than the iPhone, well that is your opinion. And if you are basing it on something as trivial as mass e-mail deletion, well that is not saying much.

I suspect this is the kind of stuff that will be added in the coming months, as they roll out updates.

As for your other nits, actually the battery life doesn't suck. And as for the keyboard, the keyboard is great. Maybe you just prefer a little teeny tiny display. To each their own.

AppleLA · 07-03-2007, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by TrippalHealicks

Guys, we're all forgetting that Palm and RIM just released their first phone, 3 days ago, and got it perfect the first time. Why couldn't Apple?

That's ok. When we all get free firmware updates to our phones, and you're using the same BB with a new face on it, we won't think twice about you.

RIM and Palm were new companies that released new devices. Apple has been around since the 80's and already has the experience. Dont make excuses for them.

They are using their own operating system, not something foreign to them. They should have made better use of it.