I like the iphone

I was a windows mobile user for about 7 years. It started with HP IPAQs, progressed to a Pharos Pocket PC, onto a few Samsung smartphones and finally ended with the Samsung Omnia on Verizon. I liked the ability to customize just about everything, but all the customization slowed things down incredibly. This occurred even using great apps like Wisbar Advanced Desktop. In the end, I realized that all my customization was coming close to what the iphone does innately. I thought I'd give it a try.

I read web articles for about 2 weeks to determine if the iphone was for me. I wanted an iphone, but I didn't want to pay the outrageous cost of a regular iphone plan. So I read some more on how one might use an iphone on Tmobile. After getting a plan together (how to jailbreak, unlock the phone, how to set up a Tmobile account with an iphone), I bit the bullet and bought a used iphone on ebay.

I intentionally bought an iphone that had a non-working wifi chip. I thought that would suffice, since I planned to use it just on the Tmobile edge network. After going through the not so hard process of jailbreaking and unlocking, I was live.

It was like a different world. No more reading windows mobile articles for hours on end to get things to work. They just worked. For instance, I never realized that I could get my yahoo email on a mobile device without having to pay for the yahoo pop service. It was simple to set up the imap service on the iphone. It essentially came with a built in Yahoo wizard. Why couldn't Windows Mobile have that? I now get all my email in one place on the phone. In fact, I prefer to read my email on the iphone rather than on traditional webmail pages. The touch interface is beautiful.

After two weeks being hooked on the phone, I now wanted working wifi. I again bought a used iphone off of ebay. After receiving the phone, I realized that the displays were not the same (even though both were 3g's). I liked the display on my old phone better, but the wifi didn't work..what to do? I read some more web articles, put a plan together on how to switch screens, and did it. In about an hour, I popped off the screen from my old iphone, put it onto the new one and vice-versa. Incredibly, both phones work flawlessly. Yet another advantage of the phone.

Enough for now.