The password thing for wifi connections works fine for me (though was tricky the first couple of times I tried it). My Wifi passwords have capitals and numbers in them.

I don’t know whether the IPhone is teen friendly or not. But IMHO, I doubt the networks care – whilst teens are early to adopt and drive things forward, e.g. SMS, their ARPU is fairly low. They also go for pay as you go options rather than contracts (depending on market, in some it’s not possible) so they churn more quickly. More importantly,the most lucrative customers for networks from a profit perspective are older contract customers. There are already lots of handsets on pay as you go that are very attractive to teens but it usually takes a lot to make an older contract customer switch networks.

Personally, I don’t wear make up on a daily basis but when I do, I also have the same issue of make up on my phone. And before anyone says anything, my make up is definitely considered high quality, if not premium. Setting it with translucent powder helps though. And I got some Iklear which is the only thing I’ve seen recommended (or even accepted) by Apple to clean IPhones.

Thing that annoys me most about the IPhone is not being able to save a picture from an email, website etc to the phone. That’s a bit female unfriendly

Daisy

I’m not saying that it’s impossible to type on with nails … just difficult. The keyboard is especially difficult (with or without nails) when typing characters that are obfuscated, such as when entering the passphrase for an encrypted wifi connection. This is made especially difficult because the screen feedback shows only the capital letter pressed, which is confusing if you are typing in a mixture of upper and lower case characters in a strong password. It takes a lot of attempts and more than once I’ve switched phones and used GPRS instead…

Meanwhile business users are finding it tough to type on the iPhone.

It’s fine. Typed with my thumbs which is the way I used my
Treo.

I guess if I wanna use Apple products I’m supposed to change my cosmetics, my manicure AND my day job!

Damn!!

“Any suggestions for using the iPhone if I won’t cut my fingernails?
Human skin on a stylus? Any proxies for skin?”

Good point. Nails won’t work. If it has to be a finger that’s doing the pressing then we need to find out if you can comfortably type using the pad of your finger (the full fingerprint size) as opposed to pressing with just the tip like the guy in the video … coz that’s where my nails are. I’ve heard that it’s possible to type with your thumbs. I find it hard to believe that it’s a full thumbprint and is more likely the side of the thumb … which may offer some hope for those with nails.

The iPod nano has a similar touch sensitive area on the volume control. It doesn’t work if I use my nail either and I must admit that puzzled me for a while until I adapted to pressing with the side of my finger. Spinning the ‘wheel’ on the iPod is different to typing characters on the iPhone though, so I’m waiting to get some genuine feedback on the fingernail issue from a genuine girl with a genuine iPhone. I’ve had a couple of replies from guys saying they can’t see it’d be a problem … but curiously they didn’t seem to know any actual women with nails who could test it out.

C’mon someone must know!! I’ll just have to wait until the celebs start sporting iPhones and check out the length of their nails…