My iPhone use has risen to a new threshold of enjoyment and value of late. The difference for me has been the Safari pages I have found and am using.
Here are some of my favorites:
Keep in mind that these are all designed with the smaller screen in mind. I don't limit myself at all to optimized pages, but these are my mainstays. I am extremely pleased with the information I have at my fingertips 24/7.
The other day I was sitting with coffee at my local cafe after breakfast. I had picked up the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, maybe a USA Today. Papers I hardly ever buy but like to read when the opportunity presents itself. What surprised me is that I was reading off my iPhone about half the time rather than taking the opportunity to read these real papers that I would not be able to read later. Things are changing!
I'm loving my iPhone and I haven't even tapped into the native third party applications that are out there now. I've been busy and was hoping I would see more from Apple by now on this front. Instead, the latest iPhone update 1.1.1 broke the third party application capability. That is truly unfortunate as a lot of iPhone users were really enjoying the bounty of new and useful native apps people were coming up with.
I don't think Apple intended to stop this sort of thing because it adds value to the iPhone and only a small percentage of iPhone users are likely to venture into this territory anyway. Let the more hardcore enthusiasts have their fun, I say.
Apple has to be shorthanded what with Leopard coming due, the iPod touch, the new UI for the nano and classic, the high expectations for updates to the iPhone, the Apple TV. They are stretched thin. I am so blown away by the existing iPhone that I cut them a lot of slack.
Nevertheless, I am all in favor of legitimate demands from the Mac, iPod and now iPhone communities. Apple needs the feedback. They innovate. They rock. They save us from mediocrity. And they still need to know what we want and expect.
