No more iPhone
Having given up the iPhone again (it wasn’t mine to start with), I really miss the iPod functionality off it. Of course that can mean only one thing, I really hope I get an iPod touch (16 or 32 GB of course, have to have room for all my music) for my birthday.
The iPhone was a really swell acquaintance, and I would love to have an iPhone nano once Apple makes that (and I’m sure they will.) The phone part worked really well, and the functionality in general was top notch. The only things that bothered me were writing text messages, and not because of the touch screen, but because of the lack of Danish dictionary; as well as the size, I really love the small size of the Nokia 5310 and iPod nano (old tall one, not the new fat one), so the iPhone just felt a bit clumsy.
Recently I ran into another problem, however, which turned out to be really frustrating. In Finland the operators send out time information on the network, so the phones can set the time automatically,. The operators in Denmark don’t. When I returned from Finland some time ago I therefore had to set the time manually, but the text messages I received still said Finnish time (+1 hour from Danish time). Ended up being really frustrating, and as happy as I’ve been with the text messaging UI on the iPhone, it doesn’t work at all if the messages are out of sync. Apple are aware of the problem, but their solution (to turn on automatic time) doesn’t work if the operator doesn’t broadcast time updates.
In the end, the little annoyances, and the knowledge that I was only borrowing the phone, led me to allow the next one from my team to use it. Now I’m just hoping for an iPod touch 