20% Battery Left
Usage: 6 hours 3 mins
Standby: 12 hours 8 mins

15% Battery Left
Usage: 6 Hours 39 Mins
Standby: 12 Hours 44 mins

10% Battery Left
Usage: 6 Hours 51 Mins
Standby: 12 Hours 56 Mins

5% Battery Left
Usage: 7 Hours 3 Mins
Standby: 13 Hours 9 Mins

Roughly 5 minutes after I got the 5% warning the phone simply turned itself off. At the 5% warning I had stopped the video and just played music and browsed the web.

So if you add the numbers all up I had around 7 hours and 8 minutes of active use out of the iPhone today. Also the iPhone was in standby mode for 6 hours and 6 minutes. Keep in mind this was a high use day since it was played with by a few people throughout the day.

First off iTunes would not work with Vista 64 bit. It would tell me that the iPhone software was not installed and to remove and reinstall iTunes to get it to work. So I tried that a few times and still got nowhere. I even tried installing iTunes on my laptop which was also running a 64 bit version of Vista. I ended up having to connect it to my server still running xp stashed away in my closet.



All these pictures were taken with my iPhone which produces half decent pics but video support would have been really cool. I mean they have YouTube support but don't they realize that cellphone cameras is a major source of internet videos?

My biggest annoyance with the iPhone however is the fact that I couldn't transfer my old number to the phone. The iTunes activation told me the number could not be transfered so I went through firs Tmobile's customer support to transfer the number. After talking to some guy over there he told me I would have to call up AT&T's support. So I did that and when I finally got to talk to a person I was just told once again that my old number just wasn't transferable.

Griping aside I really enjoy using the device. The interface is definitely slick and the gestures are pretty intuitive. Also it's much lighter and easier to carry around then my PSP so I'm happy with it. Videos look great on the glossy screen but the screen attracts fingerprints like crazy.

The screenshot to the left displays some of the power of Vista. This interface appears when you use the Windows key and tab to cycle through applications. Basically it's a replacement to Alt-Tab which displays all of your applications in realtime. In this screenshot I'm watching HDTV in SageTV in fullscreen mode, playing World of Warcraft in fullscreen mode and have a Firefox window open. I'm able to get full fps in both my game of WoW and SageTV. It's pretty impressive the potential Vista has in terms of multimedia capabilities. But also something to note is my cpu and memory usage in the top right corner of the screenshot. I had my dual core 4800+ maxed out on both cores and also 2 gigs of ram filled. It kinda makes me want to throw another 2 gigs in to see if there's an improvement.

Oh and don't worry, Alt-Tab still works but it's much prettier now. In fact it's a lot like OSX's application switching interface. I do like the use of the glass effect and also all of the applications are displayed in realtime. In the screenshot below SageTV was playing at full speed.



The new sidebar widgets are decent but there's not many useful widgets available and the one's that are available are pretty buggy. The widgets I've found most useful and stable can be seen in the first screenshot; weather in the top left corner, cpu and memory info in the top right, an application launcher bar in the bottom left and a recycling bin widget in the bottom right.

So Vista all in all has treated me well so far. I do have an issue on my laptop with my wireless card not having 64 bit drivers. I'm just hoping Intel gets their shit together fast.

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