Heh heh.... it's amazing what a bit of marketing can do for a device.
I opened this thread with plans to contribute to the title, since i have tested my new iPhone with the NC's factory ipod connector my car came with, and have found a similar experience. The iPhone prompts you upon connection to ask if you would like to switch to aircraft mode to reduce interference, which i thought was a nice touch. But, like the Audiolink connector which was designed for iPods, it does not have the extra pin required for charging the iPhone. I have a iPhone charger that runs of the lighter though, and an iPod in the car most of the time anyhow. So i'm happy that the device is at least partially supported, for those times when i leave the iPod at home.
Meanwhile, to all the naysayers who are so quick to jump in and start with the flaming already: like Artificial Life, i am not an Apple fanboy, and the iPhone is the second Apple product i have owned after being given an iPod. I echo Artificial Life's sentiments completely - the iTunes/iPod-iPhone combination, once you have used it, is THE best music/AV/portable management system around. I have a terabyte drive for my music collection which is slowly being filled with my CD's, and being able to walk up to my PC and easily select any album or artist or song and sync it for playing in the car in less than a minute is brilliant. Finding and selecting CD's for the car when you have over 2000 in your collection can be time consuming , let me assure you.
Meanwhile, to the iPhone itself. I have been somewhat of an 'early adopter' of smartphones since their inception and have had a string of Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices prior to the iPhone, the most recent two being the M600i and the P900i before that. Unlike what so many people seem to think, i did not choose the iPhone with the intention of buying into some trendy clique or fad. Rather, i judge each device and the way it is designed on it's own merits. Once you have spent time with an iPhone, you tend to realise, like i did, that the combination of a multitouch screen and a fast processor means not that it's great for flicking through album covers, but that it is actually any phone you want it to be since the interface constantly shapes itself to the task at hand. The result is not only the easiest phone i have ever owned both to customise and use, but also the fastest. It outstrips my M600i in every department. I thought i would miss the 'qwerty' keyboard, but in actual fact, once you get used to the software keyboard and Apples predictive text system, you find yourself touch typing much faster than you could with small hardware keys.
Anyhoo, just as some people are easily bought by the hype, so it seems are some easily caught up in the anti-hype-hype
On the topic of 'turn-by-turn' directions on the iPhone, i have read recently that the SDK for the next software update has lines of code which suggest this is coming. And that of course is the other great thing with the iPhone - with the release of the SDK, the software possibilities mean it's now far outstripping the competition in the capability stakes.
Hence, i carry a phone with is also a
software dyno, games machine, emailer, Facebooker AND a spirit level
