I've done it.. just before I smashed my car i purchased the iPhone (if it was afterwards I prolly wouldnt just yet). My beloved w800i was hanging on to its last breaths, and has been of gr8 service for the last 3 years! but was cutting out on me whenever it moved or got touched. Time to move on.

As much as I tried to resist locking myself in on an Apple controlled environment, I just couldn't resist having this multimedia with mucho grande touchscreen reasonable smartphone. Also the plan I got offered for two years is not much more then my old costs on the w800i.

I found the little to un-tick box in the preferences for iTunes to let the program NOT control my music by copying all to the iTunes music folder, and that was a big peace of mind (preferences -> advanced -> copy files to iTunes ... ).
So i'm loving the 16Gb music capacity I now can take along.
I'm also loving the gazillions (aka a lot) of little and slightly bigger applications you can download, and the ease of installing them (very well manageable through iTunes).
I now got subscribed again and listening to many PodCasts ie DSC from Adam Curry... YAY!! , and even some Poker ones.

Besides some better graphics in games and some cool multiplayer games you can play, there are some very nifty tools available making the iphone a true swiss army knife of knowledge and accessible information - talk later more about apps -.

The phone functionality itself is basic near ok, but you can see Apple hasnt got the knowledge yet of building proper phone operating software. Many little unpleasant shortcuts and usability features I was used to with other phones are not available, and a big hurdle is the SMS short comings.
Not able to forward or store or do any other then just plain new or reply to text messages is very very silly and immature.
This also goes for handling contacts and eMail, as its very very basic.

I know Apple is selling MobileMe that should probably enhance some features of those areas, but Im not going to pay extra for now just for basic functionality.

I run into 2 other types of wishes that lead me to "Jailbreak only" iPhones, showing the 'FREE' world will prolly more for fill my needs, but I'm determined to use the iPhone to its full capacity within the set by Apple's boundaries for now. Besides I still have a fresh contract, and Jailbraking my iPhone can risk all warranties so a slip up could let Apple turn the phone in a very nice looking brick. I also want to fully explore the set ways that Apple gives you before I jump into the 'free world'.

The interface rulez.. and the finger swiping operating is just toooooo cooooool.. love it! Obviously you cant find the keys while not seeing the phone, so no more blind texting etc.
Just flicking through screens or zooming in etc is just fabulous and most of the times very quick.

Battery life is not so long but survivable, prolly due to lighting up the big screen every time, but it comes with car adapter and usb charger so charging is not a problem.

I will prolly share some more later about apps and revelations or hinders about my new friend, but so far i'm very satisfied with it. Gonna hit the Apps Store again to see if there is some new cool stuff out..

Cheers!

iPhone uPhone weallPhone something :P

w00h00.. yeah it was my bday on the 10th.. lucky me. To bad my cgi for this blog got "broken", therefor I wasnt able to put out a post about this "easy" coming achievement that occurs every year. Thanks to my superduper host tho back online in no-time! Thanks franky, cheers mate!

Due to my blog not working and the guestbook is already overfull (on the fix-list) most people tried to congratulate me through all other media available, and that was overwelming stuff.. I mean thumbs up for facebook and hyves for showing when its your bday to all ur contacts.. w000t
Normally I would dive and hide on my bday but this one was the first being connected to those mediums and what an impact, no hiding anymore.. lol
Nice tho, being on this side of the globe and seeing all the messages and scraps etc coming in.
When I got a minute, I will message back as much as possible. I did already reply to all the sms-text messages.

Got a bit tangled up today with the next person in line who puts a typ0 in the wrong line trying to do a good thing, and p000f there it is... all my work and my customers efforts and image belong to another company.. like magic.. yeah right!. Its becoming a trend here.. and maybe later I will explain more on this matter, havent got into the right words about it.

I'm just happy my work has my name under it, and my customers are willing to help me out. Also my blog has google as a very good friend by now! All I have todo is put it in the keywords and text and there it goes...

Anyways I got myself a bday present in the form of 1 TB external storage! YAY, so now finally I can BACK THE **** UP properly!.. lol (1 TB = 1000 GB ). As my MacBookPro (MBP) has an 250 GB drive and my previous backup disk was 250. So no room for anything else.
Okokok.. besides the fact it looks very 70's, its a SEAGATE, and I used to hate Seagate!!!, but then I realised I havent tried anything from that brand since they started pounding on the price vs the quantum 6.4 gb fireball HD.. and if that doesnt say much to you, that was a loooooong time ago.

Leeching a copy of Ghost now to see if that one wants to backup all my partitions in one go, as TrueImage only wants todo the XP one and same goes for the Ghost version I had. Time Machine that comes with MacOs, is great but wants to claim the whole HD and only does the MacOSX partition. I want to wack Vista on there too so hopefully I dont have to back all parts up separately.
Anybody any suggestions.. please share!

Cheers everyone and again thanks for this warm and fuzzy bday!