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Nice discoveries:
-The dock has a line out, meaning, I come home dock it and my music streams through the speakers. (Cool!)
-There is a dock included! (none of the other expensive phones I had, had it in the box.)
-The in-ear phones have a great speaker. Calling while on the way is suddenly not so strange anymore.
-You CAN sync to 2 different Macs (my iTunes is linked to my home computer, while my data comes from my portable) without any tricks.
-Tris (Tetris) is very addictive..

Most used programs:
-Definitely mail running IMAP (so no need to delete all things twice)
-SMSsing is truly addictive as it has a typical chat interface (and I noticed this in a recent bill..)
-Remotebuddy as remote for the Macmini at home.

Cool apps:
-Remotebuddy
-Mobilescrobbler, with access to their recommendations.
-An iPod, OMG, an iPod included :P

Needed/Looking for:
-I WANT the possibility to stream ipod music to speakers, as I don't store music on my portable (I installed Simplify Media to check if it works, would solve my problem)
-I truly miss wireless syncing calendars and data (how come they don't have it??)
-The contacts were only accessible within the application. Really strange. (So I installed a hack that made it a stand alone function, Comes in handy when looking for telephone numbers)
-Capture video with sound!!!
-There is a definite need for a good 'push it to flickr' app. A combination of Pushr and iFlickr would be great.
-Flash!
-From my Nokia, I already got used to hear who was calling, making me do effort to pick up the phone (or not :) )
-GPS!

Overall ideas/remarks:
-No need for push email as you can hack the app so I checks mail every minute.
-I don't care about the Edge thing, Stumblr shows more than often open wifi networks. And if needed, I use Edge for mails.
-battery life is as good/bad as my Nokia (Read, dock your phone every night. If not, it will last 2 days. And a half.)
Note to myself: order an extra dock, it never hurts.
-IMAP works like a charm -yep, I am a geek so that went rather fast- (my mailaccounts are NOT synced, my iPhone has IMAP while my local account has POP, perfect sync, and still offline accounts)
-MMS doesn't work yet.
-Buy a cover!
-Hacking is really easy these days.

The SDK (featuring from June onwards):
-Exchange support, making this app great for 'Dze Girl' who works in Microsoft environment these days.
-An sort of Installer.app who looks a lot like Installer.app actually. They seem to have borrowed from the hackers :)-Software which comes available: Push-email, exchange with Outlook, and the whole bunch, real chat software (and not only from AIM I guess..),
-Great quote: 'Voip? When it is over wifi we don't have a problem with that.' Skype, start developping!!
-Did I already say Microsoft support?
-A game demoed showed the possibilities of the Wii features of this thing. (link: live coverage)
-Frankly speaking, I think Apple proved they brought the next big thing, and their iPod success can be repeated. (And this is not because I am an Apple fan, truly not. The Entrepeneurs fund of 100 Million tells us enough. Go and buy some shares, I tell you.)

Buying one?:
When considering buying an iPhone, for Belgium, make sure you get it before the 2.0 release in June.
Now you can still hack it easily, by then maybe not.
Apple offered a nice opportunity to programmers and hackes: a 70-30 deal, Apple takes the 30% that is. It means that suddenly all small developpers can 'share' their app in the iTunes store, making the possibilities it becomes a hit much larger. They also don't have any costs, and they get their money on a monthly base from Apple. Moreover, free apps are hosted for free.
I think their will be still many little apps developed out of the 'Apple box', and hackers are hackers, so they keep on hacking the thing.
Yet the good stuff, the interesting programs, will be distributed through this store.
So let's hope that by then, the iPhone arrives at Belgium, and we can do an official upgrade :)

Things to ask your friend when he brings one:
a simple cover until your find the one you want, an extra cable (to take along at work), an adaptor for power, Bose On-Ear Mobile headphones with mic included, as the included ones do hurt after 30min...

As for the hacking: yes it is plain simple, takes 3 minutes and you are off!
Google iJailbreak and Ziphone. And leave me alone on that part.
Surf to iPhoneclub.nl to find Dutch translation for your iPhone T9.
I had a 1.1.3 and jailbroke it with iJailbreak without any problem. (This one doesn't downgrade the bootloader)

Posted on March 7, 2008

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