Our First Customer Reviews and Impressions

WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY...

"Hi!!
I received iPhone today. Awesome guys!! :) I simply love it.
I will make a post with video on my blog for sure later :) Keep up your excellent work."
Vinod, www.vinodlive.com

"Hi iPhone Nirvana team!
Just got the iPhone today, fantastic! I am sending this message from the iPhone itself!!! I will definetely recommend your site to my friends."
Anand

FIRST IMPRESSIONS FROM VINODLIVE.COM

I was standing next in the queue -virtually- here in India, when the iPhone was launched in June. The iPhone availability in India is yet to be announced officially and most of us speculate it to be in 2008. I have been looking at the imported iPhone marketplace in India. I have bought the iPhone from the iPhone Nirvana. Since I did  ‘pre-order’ with them, I got it at a considerably lesser price than the current market price. Mine is an unlocked one, with quite a few interesting applications preloaded by the iPhone Nirvana team. Thanks to them - the Ordering, Shipping and Delivery was a non issue in my transaction. I financed my purchase completely through the revenue generated from this blog. A big thank you to everyone stopped by my blog. I got the iPhone yesterday evening :)

iPhone on Bangalore GSM networks

I tried with both a Hutch / Vodafone and an Airtel (Karnataka) SIM and found both to be working perfectly. I get all the five signal bars in my even in my low reception area. The call quality is good. EDGE Internet connectivity is nothing spectacular as both Airtel and Vodafone is yet to refine their EDGE bandwidth - as AT&T did in USA. EDGE works good for occasional email, Web browsing - but watching YouTube over EDGE is awful.

iPhone initial impressions

This is the sexiest phone I’ve ever used. It beats my earlier love O2 XDA II Mini by a millennium. The screen resolution is too good. Fonts, Colors and Icons blends so well with the overall feel of the phone like never before. With that extra pretty animations and multi-touch - this phone is picture perfect. Completely usable. There is no learning curve. I am not liking the virtual keypad as of now. As my big fat fingers always go wrong with that!. They should have included a screen calibrating sequence during the reset, which would help customize the ‘tapping coordinates’ for different people. I hope to improve the typing speed over time. Even learning the special Graphiti writing on my earlier Sony Clie PDA was a learning in itself.

Camera is useful only for brightly lit static objects. All the applications opens and switches instantly - unlike - the laggy Microsoft Windows Mobile. Phone features are good. Don’t forget to create a favorite list though as flipping through 400+ contacts to find one was no fun for me!. They should have included something like the ‘SmartDial’ in Windows Mobile.

Safari Internet browsing is excellent. Multi-touch is really useful. You can have up to 8 ‘tabs’ Safari. Connecting to the home WiFi network was simple enough and it saves the WEP passwords for later sessions. Watching Video over Wifi in iPhone is an experience in itself. The video is the best I have seen on any kind of device - perhaps Nokia N800 was closer.

Music sounded great. The supplied ear phones are a shame and never fits on anybodies ears. My expensive Creative canal-phones too is useless with iPhone, as the audio-out port of it is slightly deep-set. Audio over the speakerphone is not good when compared to my Cingular 8125 or Nokia E61. This issue is patched in the firmware update 1.1.1. Unfortunately I cannot Update!. I will have to wait till the iPhone hackers finds a way to safely upgrade to 1.1.1.

Overall it looks like I am gonna baby this phone for some more time, till a sleek Nokia N800++ with a Fluid UI, GSM chip , 5mpx Camera and a GPS is available! :)  This is the only phone worth upgrading to , if you cannot stand the utterly idiotic interface and extremely slow performance/crashes of your current phone. iPhone is a brand new phone experience.

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