After my previous phone – an e2800+, one of the first Linux smart
phones to hit the market – got destroyed in an in-office cricket
accident, I got an iPhone as a gift…
Its a great phone and with looks that kill. Why did some of the existing
phone manufacturers not think about such a design is beyond me. And
with an SDK that people can use to create their own apps it is bound
to get a huge developer base quickly. I have no doubt that Apple
will become a major player in the mobile space in no time!
As I got it as an unexpected gift, I didn’t do my background work.
Though it was bought this year, the seller in the process of unlocking
it, downgraded the software to 1.1.2. Didn’t realize it immediately
then, but over the next couple of months my frustrations grew with the
phone because of this…
– It didn’t have bulk SMS or SMS forward facilities
– The caller id was not recognized or the SMSers number wasn’t
recognized depending on the way you stored a number
– You Tube wasn’t working
– Bluetooth wasn’t working
– I couldn’t rearrange icons
– I had to have only a couple of more apps installed as it didn’t
allow multiple screens
– Worst of all, the only computer which I had access to, my office
laptop, had Windows 2000 running on it. So no sync of contacts, songs
etc., etc., (for a brief time I was thinking of hacking it to book
Windows XP if an USB harddisk drive just to use iTunes and sync stuff!)
Its a great phone (with as much power as by first computer) but I
wasn’t utiliIng it to the full extent or making its more friendly to
use.
So finally managed to cracked it on a fateful Saturday (use ibrickr or
betterstill ziPhone to unlock it). Installed a few apps and its a much
better phone now!
I suggest the following must have apps on iPhone…
-BSD subsystem
-Open SSH
-AppSupport patch
-iSms
-Installer
-VoiceNotes
-ShowTime
-Squid
-Term VT100
-Sysinfo
-Books
-SafariPatch
The playing with it still continues though and today I decided to blog
after a long time using it.
~Blogging using my iPhone.
