Handy.

The iPhone arrived today. Thankfully it had the old 1.0.2 firmware so unlocking it was a breeze with this guide. The phone is lightning fast and has a lot of the features you find on other high end mobile phones, but it’s also missing a few:

• I have not been able to send e-mail with attachments. You have to install a separate application for that. That’s crap.
• There is no MMS support.
• I’m not able to browse the filesystem from web sites, which is handy for uploading files through web forms.
• Naturally, the iPhone is missing national characters and it’s not possible to see who’s calling you since the incoming number is formatted in the US format, which does not match the entries in the phone book. All this can be fixed with a little hacking, though.
• For some reason, I’m not able to pair the phone and my MacBook.

If it had not been possible to jailbrake the phone and install 3rd party applications, it would have been fun for about 5 minutes. Now it’ll be fun for quite some time. Yes, there are tons of other handsets you can install 3rd party applications on without having to crack it first, but none of those handsets are as fast as the iPhone and that’s a huge pro.

iPhone, youPhone.

4 days, 4 runs. I actually made it. The runs were probably not as good as they could have been, but now I’m having today off from exercising and am aiming for The Perfect Run tomorrow.

And now for a follow up on yesterday’s iPhone entry. As you know, I got the chance to test one of them for a few minutes last week because our resident phone nerd at work got one from a guy who had a friend in the US of A. I was not very impressed, really, but yesterday we talked some more about his iPhone, which he had now sold to someone else with a NOK 2000 profit.

Come again? Continue reading "iPhone, youPhone."

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