Max's Miscellaneous Musings

MaxBabe got herself an iPhone on new year's eve.  I have long maintained that a phone is a phone is a phone, and should be nothing but a phone.

That was until I met the iPhone.  This marvellous piece of technology has turned me around.  And so, in a fit of severe gadget envy, I got myself an iPhone yesterday.  Oh, I'm enjoying using it.  I particularly like the little applications one can download and install on it.  I've installed one that tells me about train timetables in Brisbane.  I need only set up some favourite starting points and destinations, then I can easily find out when the next train leaves from home, work or the city.  Nice.

There are stacks of others (and by stacks, I mean many, many thousands).  Some are paid, some are free.  Some are subscription-based.

Anyway.. I suspect I will be spending the next week or so fiddling with my new toy.

My only complaint thus far is that although I can assign a particular ring tone for a particular contact, I cannot assign a particular SMS tone to that contact.  This is a feature I'm really missing from my old phone   Worse, I can't even upload custom SMS tones!  It's the bog standard ones or nothing.  For shame, Apple!!!!  That said, I can hack the iPhone somewhat, if I choose to jailbreak it.  I'm not ready to do that just yet, as I'd like my new toy to actually work without having to worry about warranties, bugs, security holes introduced by jailbreaking etc.  I'll wait for the next firmware update to see if it introduces this feature.  If it doesn't, perhaps I'll consider jailbreaking it.  Maybe.