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This really is a very nice piece of technology. The touchscreen is sensitive without being fiddly, keyboard isn't too small for my fingers, screen real estate is decent, the sound quality is very nice (if you're using any other earphones than the ones provided...), easy to use.

I haven't encountered any real problems yet, only niggly things like Willow making a call when she jumped on my lap before I could lock the phone.

I'm not even as dependent on iTunes as I had feared: I'm able to download most if not all apps when connected to the wireless here. And earlier tonight I discovered there's Skype for the iPhone. This is currently a godsent as You Old Bastard won't be repaired until I take a look at it next week and the iMac Hunter loaned me doesn't support Skype (or the newest versions of iTunes and Safari. Which sort of breaks my google calendar. And my foxmarks. Yet, I persevere...).

So spotted Skype, installed, tested and wahey! Contact with abroad while being able to sit outside and smoke. Or be on the go. I like this. :)

I'm really impressed with this thing and I am not easily impressed by phones, mostly because the modern ones are too involved. They try to be phones with Extra Shiny Bits tacked on, but the Extra Shiny Bits don't quite work. This means I end up with something I only use for phoning and texting because all the added bits are kludgy, not up to my standards or just plain useless.

It's like buying a gold-plated camel with 50 bells on and they're all supposed to make your camel more easy to use. But they don't. You have to ring 25 bells in a precise order and time to get the camel to turn right and 15 to get it to turn left, so in the end you give up and use the reins and a stick to make it go forward and stop. So now you have this a gold-plated camel with 50 bells on and you can still only make it go forward or stop. If you want to turn left (or listen to music), you need something else. Possible another camel. Or a llama.

But my iPhone...well, it's not a gold-plated camel and it hasn't got bells on. It's black and sleek and shiny and it has extra reins and more proddy sticks. I can get it to turn left! And right! And it can go backwards too! And I can use it to listen to music. It also doesn't spit, kick and viciously bite me, which is something I look for in a phone...er...camel....thing.

So yes. I like this here shiny device.

More iPhone geeksquee

This really is a very nice piece of technology. The touchscreen is sensitive without being fiddly, keyboard isn't too small for my fingers, screen real estate is decent, the sound quality is very nice (if you're using any other earphones than the ones provided...), easy to use.

I haven't encountered any real problems yet, only niggly things like Willow making a call when she jumped on my lap before I could lock the phone.

I'm not even as dependent on iTunes as I had feared: I'm able to download most if not all apps when connected to the wireless here. And earlier tonight I discovered there's Skype for the iPhone. This is currently a godsent as You Old Bastard won't be repaired until I take a look at it next week and the iMac Hunter loaned me doesn't support Skype (or the newest versions of iTunes and Safari. Which sort of breaks my google calendar. And my foxmarks. Yet, I persevere...).

So spotted Skype, installed, tested and wahey! Contact with abroad while being able to sit outside and smoke. Or be on the go. I like this. :)

I'm really impressed with this thing and I am not easily impressed by phones, mostly because the modern ones are too involved. They try to be phones with Extra Shiny Bits tacked on, but the Extra Shiny Bits don't quite work. This means I end up with something I only use for phoning and texting because all the added bits are kludgy, not up to my standards or just plain useless.

It's like buying a gold-plated camel with 50 bells on and they're all supposed to make your camel more easy to use. But they don't. You have to ring 25 bells in a precise order and time to get the camel to turn right and 15 to get it to turn left, so in the end you give up and use the reins and a stick to make it go forward and stop. So now you have this a gold-plated camel with 50 bells on and you can still only make it go forward or stop. If you want to turn left (or listen to music), you need something else. Possible another camel. Or a llama.

But my iPhone...well, it's not a gold-plated camel and it hasn't got bells on. It's black and sleek and shiny and it has extra reins and more proddy sticks. I can get it to turn left! And right! And it can go backwards too! And I can use it to listen to music. It also doesn't spit, kick and viciously bite me, which is something I look for in a phone...er...camel....thing.

So yes. I like this here shiny device.