iPhone Woes

So, I'm a bit of a geek. I purchased an iPhone on Friday.

For the record, I did not wait on line for four days and nights through driving rains. I drove to a nearby Apple store around 6:40pm on Friday, walked in, purchased two 8gb models (one for me and one for a friend who agreed to scope a different location) and walked out at 6:45pm. Nobody stabbed me in the parking lot either ala the PS3 launch. So maybe we can drop all the nonsense about iPhone being "THE most anticipated consumer electronic devise in 20 years". Yes, it sold well, and for the most part it works beautifully and has an innovative interface.

However, the iPhone, it's keyboard software or the Safari web browser (I don't know who is "guilty" I just know it doesn't work the way you would want it to) doesn't seem to recognize forms all the time while browsing the web. Most notably I tried to create a test post from my iPhone right here on this blog but couldn't. I could enter a title but I couldn't get the keyboard to pop up when I clicked into the text body editor.

Generally speaking, when you click into a box that requires text to be entered the keyboard pops up on the screen and you type away happily. But if it doesn't think the form you've clicked into wants text to be entered then you are shit outta luck. The keyboard won't come up and there's no readily apparent way around it. You can't "summon it". There isn't a text editor or clipboard so that one might be able to write something elsewhere and just cut and paste around the problem. If it doesn't like it, you're hosed. Maybe it's my phone. Maybe somebody more clever than me (and that's a large set) has figured out how to make it work. But I couldn't. It's a shame too because if it did I could post from remote race locations etc... as long as I could find some WiFi access without having to drag around a laptop.