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» Calling and the iPhone

After ten gruesome days with my number in transition I can finally use the iPhone as a phone and it really does make it complete. Being able to surf whereever is really cool and of course being able to call and send SMSs the iPhone way is also really cool and something I’ve been waiting on for quite some time.

I’m realy pleased with how it behaves though and being able to call and do other things at the same time is cool, at least I think so. It’s a shame though that I can’t get visual voicemail here in Sweden yet because I bet that would be cooler than cool.

SMS

For me, sending text messages has never been simpler. Partly because I’ve never been fast on T9 writing and love a full keyboard – also partly because the way it is displayed which I quite like. It makes it much easier to follow up on the conversation you’ve had with someone without any hassle. It just works!

The Phone

The iPhone is a phone afterall and it does really do very good in the phone application as well. At a quick glance you get the favourite contacts and just a tap away are your recent calls, contacts the keypad and of course the voicemail (that for me is just a shortcut for calling the voicemail number). All of these lists are easy to navigate and they also look great (as does everything on the iPhone).

Final Verdict

The iPhone works as it should as a phone and I’ve had no problems with it after using it for a full day yet, it just works as I expect it to. I just wish the carrier here (TeliaSonera) would hurry up and develop Visual Voicemail with Apple.

 

» Visual Voicemail on the iPhone varies by carrier?

 

The carrier specific features of the iPhone such as Visual Voicemail may now be varying by the carrier. Some carriers that will have the iPhone on July 11 have been asked and some say they will be having the visual voicemail and some will not disclose any further information, leaving us clueless to whether they will have it or not. Over at iLounge they’ve got a list on the carriers asked and their responses.

I sincerely hope the carriers here will step up if they haven’t and start making visual voicemail because it is a wonder it isn’t a standard still when we are living in the age we do…