living with the iPhone - making calls

posted by  mneon (8)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I'm surprised at how well the iPhone does as an honest-to-goodness phone. I have to admit that I'm a bit annoyed that getting to the phone functionality isn't instant: wake from sleep, slide to unlock, hit the home button if I'm not already there (which I'm usually not), hit the phone button, hit the [favourites | contacts | recents | keypad ] button if I'm not there already, then do whatever is necessary to dial someone. That feels like an awful lot of work just to make a phone call.

The strength of the iPhone as a telephone is in what happens next. While the initial dialing of