First and foremost, I would like to thank a couple of guys who made it possible.
1. Kevin's boss : who brought her over from US
2. Kevin: for devirginizing her (or rather asking somebody else to crack it)
3. Kiam: for escorting her over from Penang
4. Winghon: for fetching me over to the PC fair to collect her.
Had been using it for a week now, and I still find her a real beauty. Her sleek curves, brilliant display and minimalist design is simply incomparable. She makes me wanna touch her all the time, and only by touch would she get moving.
I've always wanted a touch screen phone and this one is simply wonderful. In a short while, I got used to gliding my finger around the screen and typing using the keypad was no problem at all despite my two fat thumbs. The dictionary function really helps a lot during typing, so a typo doesn't really matter at all. Only thing that bothers me is that the phone is now fully covered with fingerprints.
And now I have music in my pocket all the time. The iPod function is pretty cool (okay, it's just another friggin mp3 player) and it'll take a while before I get bored with 16GB of songs. But I ignored Trace's advice and synced my music using iTunes on another machine and it just erased my whole play list. Why the freaking hell cant it just add some songs to it!!!?? Fuck iTunes!
Having wifi on the phone is another cool feature (kononlah can always stay connected). But browsing on Safari turned out to be pretty sweet. It displays at a comfortable size and its just perfect for browsing blogs. Mail attachments can be opened without problems and so far I've tested .JPEGs, .PDFs, and office documents which is fitted the screen really well. The iPhone also has EDGE but I disabled it and only depend on wifi to download and surf. Learned from a friend's mistake where he downloaded stuff using his edge and was charged about RM200 for 20MB of crap. Heard some guy from Singapore ended up in debt of tens of thousands after downloading movies using EDGE.
But every rose has its thorns, and she turned out to be quite a bitch. Just needed some getting used to.
First of all, it doesn't recognize all the contacts from the SIM card. Thanks to the web application SIMport, I was able to copy out all my contacts from the SIM. Only then did I realize how unorganized my contacts were. It was a total mess as this phone sorts it out nicely using first name/ last name. Still slowly resorting my address book.
Another problem would be dialing and smsing out. Had me cracking my head trying to figure wtf was wrong with it. Turned out that instead of dialing the number 012xxx, we had to dial the whole number +6012xxx. Which also means, I have tonnes of numbers to edit again.
There's a mixture of love and hate when it comes to the SMSing. I love the SMS layout where it is arranged in a form of chat where you can see all the previous SMSes in a form of dialog. What I hate about it, there's no draft and forwarding. Had to retype a sms a thousand times when I was figuring out why the friggin message just won't get through. Well, there should have a web app for it but I haven't really been searching.
The chat box style SMS
No MMS at the moment, though they say it works fine using the webApp Swirly MMS but the freaking package doesn't seem to downloadable at the moment. Well, not a big user of MMS, so I can live fine without it for the moment.
There's a couple of other hiccups that had been bugging me. Thankfully the webs applications are able there to save the day.
Overall, the iPhone can be summarized as one hot bitch.
And I'm loving it.
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