iPhone months trial is ending so what will I do?
Category iPhone Conclusion
Yep, the month for deciding whether or not to keep the phone has come to an end, so what did I decide to do?
For a couple of reasons I have decided to keep the iPhone. I still had my issues with it, and I'm sure this isn't exactly what apples want with their restrictive policies (if Microsoft followed the same policies as apple, I'm pretty sure someone would be crying to the government, hopefully it's only a matter of time until someone starts crying foul about apple's policies). So I am keeping the iPhone primarily because I was able to jail break it and install an app that gets around my biggest frustration with the iPhone.
When the phone bleeped I just wanted to know why it bleeped without having to unlock it, just tell me which mail account has a new email, nothing complicated, concerned with security, no need to show me the email subject, just let me know it bleeped because of a new mail.
Intelliscreen totally solved my problem. By jail breaking the phone for this app it also gave me access to MyWi which turns the iPhone into a wireless access point and works great, as there's no telling when AT&T will enable that.
But the overwhelming reason why I had to keep the iPhone is that I have yet to beat my sister and brothers score on Flight Control, it's like a much easier version of a very old PC game TRACON which did some very funky stuff to get sampled sound out of a PC buzzer speaker.
If I was to do this again, I would probably have just bought an iPod touch and stuck with my existing phone, which even though it's older than the iPhone, doesn't have a touch screen, still does email and calendaring in a much more logical way. But then I already had a Nokia N800, so couldn't see the justification in getting a touch.
So the thing that saved the iPhone is the apps, not the email client, not the phone calling, but the apps. Hhhhm, where else do we come across that?
Yep, the month for deciding whether or not to keep the phone has come to an end, so what did I decide to do?
For a couple of reasons I have decided to keep the iPhone. I still had my issues with it, and I'm sure this isn't exactly what apples want with their restrictive policies (if Microsoft followed the same policies as apple, I'm pretty sure someone would be crying to the government, hopefully it's only a matter of time until someone starts crying foul about apple's policies). So I am keeping the iPhone primarily because I was able to jail break it and install an app that gets around my biggest frustration with the iPhone.
When the phone bleeped I just wanted to know why it bleeped without having to unlock it, just tell me which mail account has a new email, nothing complicated, concerned with security, no need to show me the email subject, just let me know it bleeped because of a new mail.
Intelliscreen totally solved my problem. By jail breaking the phone for this app it also gave me access to MyWi which turns the iPhone into a wireless access point and works great, as there's no telling when AT&T will enable that.
But the overwhelming reason why I had to keep the iPhone is that I have yet to beat my sister and brothers score on Flight Control, it's like a much easier version of a very old PC game TRACON which did some very funky stuff to get sampled sound out of a PC buzzer speaker.
If I was to do this again, I would probably have just bought an iPod touch and stuck with my existing phone, which even though it's older than the iPhone, doesn't have a touch screen, still does email and calendaring in a much more logical way. But then I already had a Nokia N800, so couldn't see the justification in getting a touch.
So the thing that saved the iPhone is the apps, not the email client, not the phone calling, but the apps. Hhhhm, where else do we come across that?
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