Tokyo Midtown and iPhone update
Was supposed to be in Tokyo this weekend with the yoga gang visiting FS, who is in Tokyo taking Japanese classes for a couple weeks, but work and other obligations have got me grounded in Hong Kong for the next few weeks. Am sure I'll hear all about their bacchanalian weekend though. In the meantime, FS sent picks of her swanky Oakwook serviced apartment in Tokyo Midtown.
On another note, been using the iPhone for a week now and still loving it (sounds like a McDonald's commercial!). I had a scare Saturday evening when I thought iPhone had gone into a coma. Turns out, when you run the battery down to nothing, it takes about 10 minutes for it to become responsive even after putting it into the charging dock. The biggest lesson in preserving the battery time is not to keep wifi on when not in use. With wifi constantly on, I only managed to get 24 hours standby out of the battery with about 4 hours of audio playback time (using the built-in speaker most of the time) and a couple hours of email checking and web browsing. My main complaints so far are its 8GB of memory (you have to be really selective about what music, TV shows and photos you load) and the fact that the Shure headphone jack doesn't fit into the iPhone (Apple's headphones are lousy at blocking outside noise, but the click control on the tiny microphone for pausing songs and forwarding tracks is quite convenient). Other than that, the iPhone works beautifully. Watching videos on it is so much better than iPod video and the great thing is the built-in speaker that lets more than one person watch (or listen to music, which is great when going running with BL so that he can entertain me with his karaoke running) at a time.
On another note, been using the iPhone for a week now and still loving it (sounds like a McDonald's commercial!). I had a scare Saturday evening when I thought iPhone had gone into a coma. Turns out, when you run the battery down to nothing, it takes about 10 minutes for it to become responsive even after putting it into the charging dock. The biggest lesson in preserving the battery time is not to keep wifi on when not in use. With wifi constantly on, I only managed to get 24 hours standby out of the battery with about 4 hours of audio playback time (using the built-in speaker most of the time) and a couple hours of email checking and web browsing. My main complaints so far are its 8GB of memory (you have to be really selective about what music, TV shows and photos you load) and the fact that the Shure headphone jack doesn't fit into the iPhone (Apple's headphones are lousy at blocking outside noise, but the click control on the tiny microphone for pausing songs and forwarding tracks is quite convenient). Other than that, the iPhone works beautifully. Watching videos on it is so much better than iPod video and the great thing is the built-in speaker that lets more than one person watch (or listen to music, which is great when going running with BL so that he can entertain me with his karaoke running) at a time.
posted by 10000miles at 10:30
2 Comments:
wow geee, service apartment in Tokyo Mid-town, must be very expensive. Been there a few weeks ago, the place is very nice and I love the stationery store in the basement. It is called..... 5th Alley Studio.
On the other hand, one suggestion of headphone for iPhone/iPod is Shure. e4c is the most comfortable and reasonable priced model IMHO. Shure isolates 80%- 90% noise just by using the ear sleeves instead of noise cancellation technology.
actually, the serviced apartment is reasonably priced given the location from Y24,000 per night for a studio apartment. not for short stays though. i'd say minimum 2-week stay required.
yeah, agree that Shure headphones are great, but won't be able to use them with iPhone until their MPA-3c (music phone adapter) for iPhone comes out, which should be very soon i hope
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