Always Coming, Never Here

You can really tell that it's faster. The response time on tapping things like mail and photos has sped up quite a bit. The new camera makes images look great, though it doesn't seem like you can autofocus while you're recording a video - and the ambient sound recording during the video isn't half bad, I was worried I would need to get some kind of external mike in order to really catch sound.

The setup process was completely painless for me (I upgraded); I just synced all my info (all my photos and a bunch more of my audio) and went to AT&T's web site to confirm activation. It's all working very well so far... really the only differences I've noticed so far are response time and photos. The compass is a trinket by itself, but it also works well.

Not having MMS PISSES ME OFF. This is a huge feature, I want to be able to send locations and pictures and clips of things to other iPhones!! Not having tethering also pisses me off, but nowhere near as much as the lack of rich messaging. Screw you, AT&T.

I bought a Nintendo DSi. I'm liking it; bigger screen, more features (including web browsing), SD card slot, download play with the DSi shop, and all the features of the old DS Lite except for the Game Boy slot - but that is really the big negative for me, I'm sad that I need to keep a DS Lite hanging around to play my Game Boy games... though if I'd kept all my compatible Nintendo hardware instead of selling most of it recently, I would have had to keep a Game Boy Advance around as well for eReader and such. But I suppose at some point down the road most games will be available as downloads and the need for the DS Lite will abate, which will be cool, but we seem to be quite far off from that.

The quality of the DSi camera seems to be way, way, way better than the iPhone camera - not to mention that it has both inner and outer cameras. It's better in lower lighting, captures real colors better, and it's faster and easier to use, but it may not have as high a resolution; I haven't yet pulled the photos from it. The DSi also records sound, but I haven't yet determined if the mic quality is better on the DSi or the iPhone. I'm a bit disappointed that some of the lectures I recorded yesterday have low gain.

I spent a good part of the Brooklyn Food Conference yesterday recording audio with my iPhone and taking pictures with my DSi. Fun!!

P.S. Raj Patel is my new hero.