Recently, I received a comment on my post about the iPhone. The comment was such a great description of this person experience with his new iPhone, I asked if I could use it as a guest post.

Brooke Riggio gave me the following.

I had a Treo, and upgraded to an iPhone. I love it. I used both for about 2 weeks, to make sure it would work out, and found myself hating having to use the Treo for anything. It feels clunky, slow, ugly, and bad for my eyes. Just the other day, I went to a business meeting downtown. I left my house, checking bus schedules on the web as I went (parking is expen$$ive!).

On the bus, I monitored traffic with the Google maps app to make sure I was on schedule. I zoomed in the map to pick the perfect place to get off the bus. I got an email from the guy I was meeting with a last minute Word doc for me to review for the meeting. To his surprise, I was familiar with the contents when the meeting started, since I was able to read the attachment in the iPhone mail program.

While at the meeting, we used iPhone to check a few potential domain names for our product. I made some calls for another client (all synced from address book) on my way home, responded to some other emails, and listened to a podcast. I never touched my treo, and preferred it that way! The only thing I thought I would miss was the dial-up networking feature of my treo (so I could use internet from laptop over bluetooth). But with full web browsing on the iPhone, I don’t miss it at all… EDGE is actually faster than the BT transfer rates anyway!

My recommendation: Don’t wait for version 2. That just means lost time enjoying the greatest cell phone interface ever created. My treo was like a 10th generation product, and was buggy and crashy as heck. Apple did better in it’s first try than all the other manufactures have been able to do with revision after revision.

To add credibility to this comment, Brooke is a tech consultant for small business, including a law firm in Seattle. He is also working on a very interesting web based application called CaseHawk. Humm, web based case management!!! Can you say, case management web based application running on the iPhone?

Brooke also told me that he wrote his comment on his iPhone, with his right thumb, holding his 5 month old. He stated he is already faster with one hand on the iPhone than he was with two on his “old” Treo.

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