Here’s my first round of comments on the new iPhone software:

  • Remote is what the iPod application should have been from the start…and still isn’t.
  • Since I heard about it, I thought real-time sync with MobileMe would be what made the package worth $99 for a lot of people. Having played with it for a few hours, I still think that, with one glaring exception — Windows. I could sync calendars to Outlook, or I could sync them to Outlook. I was syncing them to Outlook for about 20 minutes, and then I couldn’t stand it anymore.
  • You can only set the category of a contact when you create it, just like before. What’s new is that you can do the same when creating an appointment.
  • There’s still no custom alert sounds (as far as I can tell), and you still can’t set the New Mail sound, generally or per-account (or per-contact, or per-anything else useful).
  • I don’t know what your App Store is showing, but mind is showing zero downloads for every app that I look at. Including apps that I’ve installed (and thus obviously downloaded).

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