My main tasks for the day were to review some notes from a client meeting, along with a few Powerpoint presentations, in order to come up with a plan for redeveloping their website. Along with this, I had to look at websites of competitors and other sites that my client liked.
The first thing I tackled was to review the Powerpoint presentations, given by my client to others, to explain what their business is and what they do. Luckily, the iPhone supports Powerpoint presentations quite well and I had no problem reading the slides, jotting notes in my notepad (something I would have done even if I was using my laptop).
Looking through the websites they referenced was fine, although there were some gaps where Flash content didn’t load.
During the day I got a few emails in that I was able to write short replies to. And of course I was able to look up trains via my own handy iPhone trains app.
My meeting notes were in a writeboard in Basecamp, so were fairly easy to read through.
One of the biggest problems with using the iPhone as my only computer device came when using large textareas. I couldn’t figure out how to scroll up and down, which was very irritating and made editing large amounts of text impossible (as it turns out, the solution is to use two fingers to scroll textareas).
Although the keyboard on the iPhone is great for a phone, it is nowhere near as easy to use as a full-sized one. After a minute or two of typing on the phone, I found myself irritated that my speed was so limited.
I got so fed up with these two problems that I abandoned the idea of writing my project plan on the iPhone itself. Instead I waited until I got my hands on the Mac mini.
The iPhone performed better than I expected, but not well enough for me to throw out my MacBook Pro. Still, I’ve learned I can rely on it for more than I had been.
This is an Article. It was posted on November 24, 2008.
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