So iPhone 2.0 has been out for a week now.
What do you think?
There were three main reasons that I was anticipating the new firmware.
- Activesync for work.
- VPN for work
- App store so that I could finally transfer all my passwords from my Treo to my iPhone and get rid of the Treo
How have my expectations been met?
Activesync:
Mail works great. It does exactly what I would want. Give me easy access to my work mail without having to go through webmail. And you can even easily disable the mail syncing, so if you have days where you need to turn off work it’s not that hard to do.
Calendar and Contacts however are disappointing to me. I like to keep my work contacts and calendar separate from my personal contacts and calendar. As far as I can tell, you can’t do this. Bummer, because I really wanted easy access to my work calendar.’
VPN works great. Cisco IPSec with two factor authentication works exactly like I would expect.
Finally, the app store and a password application. I bough a program called SplashID. It could use some improvements in the interface department, but it does the job, so I’m fairly happy with this.
Biggest disappointment? The new long backup times (Which is apparently due to backing up applications)
Biggest positive surprise? The Apple remote application actually is useful for me.