After activation woes, the experience has been pretty good. The things I like:
- The Exchange support. Wasn’t completely obvious how to enable. You have to delete your old imap/webdav email account info, and create a new Exchange account type, and turn on the cal and contact synching. It will wipe all your on-device cal and contact info so sync up first! Getting the entourage/ical sync disaster out of my config is a very good thing.
- The App store. nice selection, a lot of good choices, and seems to work well. Apps I like so far:
- Urbanspoon. The interface is just cool
- GuitarToolkit. Chord reference and tuner, very nice
- Todo. Integrates nicely with RememberTheMilk for a complete app and website experience. Jott is great too with the nice voice interface but Todo wins for the rememberthemilk integration
- SmugShot. Replaces the iPhone camera and photo apps, and is integrated with SmugMug
Things that aren’t doing it for me:
- What is the new Contacts app for? Seems like a subset of the phone app
- The Google app. Not really clear what value this adds beyond the existing search in Safari
- Games. They look nice but the interface limitations of the device really hurt. I won’t get rid of my DS.
- Still no cut and paste?? Am I missing this somewhere?