1) KashFlow. If you are serious about your product. Please send an email to all your customers asking them what phone they have and what app they want to see?

2) http://www.cellular-news.com/story/48197.php

3) You have UK orientated product. Most tech news comes from the US and gives a biased flavor. Most Americans don’t what is Nokia Phone is for example!

4) Now that Nokia have bought MS new mobile platform you need to develop a Windows Phone 7 app too!

You can’t deny that the iPhone was a real breakthrough in the smart-phone world and has definitely started something massive (or at least popularised it), but that doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for everyone!

Which leads me to my obvious question- when do we get an Android App for KashFlow? Do you know if there is one under development?

Robin

I’m sure that after a month or two more, you’ll forget all the bits you miss from your Curve and be more than happy with the iPhone.

Enjoy!

PS – looking forward to the KashFlow app.

Many rumours are circulating regarding a new iPhone being launched this year and an updated iPhone OS, but as usual Apple is admitting to nothing. So at present the argument is very simple:
Blackberry for business
iPhone for consumer

Although there are many consumers with Blackberry’s (and they only utilise half of its potential) and business people with iPhones (and the iPhone only offers them half of the features they need) they are aimed very distinctly at their respective markets. Steve Jobs himself has been quoted as being “very surprised” at the number of business users of the iPhone.

What is telling for the future is that Steve Jobs at the recent financial results presentation said that Apple is no longer a computer company, it is now a “communications company”… This seems to point at the iPhone, and potentially iPad, now having taken the central product role at Apple instead of the Mac computers and iPods. The general summary of the iPhone rumour mill also seems to suggest that iPhone is now being developed to become a true Blackberry alternative with a smaller, cheaper, more consumer focused iPhone being launched in the future sometime to compliment the ‘upper-end’ iPhone much like the MacBook and MacBookPro line up.

Until that time arrives: use what you need and stop moaning about your own bad product decisions…!

Over recent weeks I have been wishing there was one! 🙂

I think although the iPhone is oft considered a ‘smart’ phone or a business device, Apple has firmly aimed it at the consumer market. The email mechanism is fairly basic (although push has brought it forward somewhat) but the app store filled with its games etc is clearly intended for the masses.

Although several companies are innovating and doing fairly interesting things with the device in a business context – this is still quite rare. I don’t feel that they are devices that are in direct competition like a lot of people make out.

The interesting thing is that it’s the Blackberry that has emulated the iPhone’s success by moving more towards the consumer market by updating style elements and adding a camera etc (all absent from original Blackberry designs). However, the app store is where it falls – so no matter how functional and stable the Blackberry is, and however unstable and annoying the dropped calls (we haven’t even mentioned THAT part until now!) from the iPhone are – I think the war is waged from app-store to app-store.

This doesn’t excuse the unbelievable number of quirks the iPhone has had and still does have though. Anyone would think it was a Microsoft product. (OK, sorry, that was cheap.)

See Dom Joly shouting into it on the web …. very funny.

I was hoping we’d see some details on iPhone OS 4.0 and new hardware (which might include the flashing light) so was a bit disappointed yesterday as we’re probably now waiting until June for a new version. Doesn’t seem worth shelling our a 1000 clams for a device that should finally be awesome in 4 months.

Rod

The other thing about the charger not working has a simple reason, I believe: The iPhone is more power hungry, hence some old chargers won’t work because they don’t deliver enough juice.

I do think you have a point about the other issues, though.

And the ringtone thing really bugs me, since the method of creating them does not always work.

As much as I do like the phone (anything is superior to my nokia e65!), I agree with your niggles, plus the issue of setting an email signature which is automatically added to every email, regardless of account. I have 4 mail accounts running, I don’t want my company one with all the blurb on it going onto my personal emails! The other annoyance is the lack of bluetooth to computer support. I’m used to just taking a photo and perhaps sending it to my computer via bluetooth which, as far as I’m aware, cannot be done. Having to keep the connection wire with my laptop is a bit annoying. Instead I’ve taken to emailing myself with the photo (with my email sig at the bottom!).

Overall they’re nice phones but a few obvious and basic points are there that you wouldn’t really expect.

(Oh and I realise there are apps for multiple email sigs, but surely this should be a standard thing?!).

You know I love Apple. 🙂

Does the iPhone (through iTunes) not have an iPod-like option to enable hard disk support?

iTunes wouldn’t be so bad if it were just that. I had to install iTunes on my laptop to help my cousin out. The ‘package’ also included Quicktime, Bonjour, Apple Software Update + friends. Arghh! Worse though was that when I uninstalled iTunes it left Quicktime, Bonjour + friends behind.

VERY bad Karma Apple!