McAlister Talks About His iPhone 

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In my monthly business travel newsletter for August 2008, I completed the second of a 2-part series on using your PDA to read and handle email on the road. The podcast above is an interview with computer-savvy artist McAlister Merchant, an award-winning industrial designer and long-time Macintosh user who recently acquired one of the new iPhone 3Gs. We talked about his strategies for retrieving email on the road whether you’re a high-mileage traveler or not. McAlister also gave his impressions of the iPhone both as a user and as a designer.

If you’re a Windows user and you’re curious about the iPhone, you’ll especially appreciate McAlister’s description of the user experience. I had about 30 minutes to test my email connections with McAlister’s phone while doing research for my newsletter, but McAlister gives a much more thorough description of how the device works, how sturdy it is, and what it’s like to work without a stylus, an idea that is foreign to most Windows PDA users.

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