I shake Cutty Ranks hand, WOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well all, but one, of my predictions for the iPhone 3G came to pass. It still boggles my mind why they would not improve upon the camera (i.e. the one that only works well in broad daylight and with stationary objects). I expected to at least see a flash, but Apple in their wisdom said, "Meh."

GPS was a given, and the subsequent geotagging of photos. I thought they would do something about the volume on the ringer & speakerphone, and they did. However they're not fooling anyone with the "new" price—fuck 2-year contracts, fuck them hard with a medieval morning star.

I guess I want to share with you, my dwindling readers, my own iPhone experience:

First off, it's the bomb phone, I have never in all my days used such a fricking handy device. PDA? Collecting dust. Archos? You treated me well, even if you weighed a metric ton. RAZR? It's my backup in case I ever need to send my iPhone in for repair.

Second, BUY A CASE. You need it, trust me on this, I'm not playing around here—this is serious, BUY A BLOODY CASE. The first time you get a "ding" on its shiny exterior you'll lose all grip of reality. You forget it's "just a phone" because it looks so damn sexy, so keep it that way, buy a fucking case. I'm on my 3rd (in my quest for the "perfect" case), it's the Slider from Incase, which looks the best of anything I've seen but is cheaply made; I got a crack within days (just from regular use, not even a drop!).

Third, get your apps. You need to install, in this order:

- BossTool (move those fonts!)
- SummerBoard (oooh, pretty skins)
- Afp (browse your files from your Mac)
- MobileScrobbler (Last.fm, duh!)
- BossPrefs (one-stop for all your prefs)
- DropCopy (to transfer files between other DropCopy devices,
  i.e. other iPhones)
- Converter (a must-have app)
- ToDoList (why was this missing from the default apps?)
- VoiceNotes (same as above, why!?)
- iBlacklist (for anyone in Trinidad, add +2222222222 to the
  blacklist and avoid the ANNOYING text message we
  get after receiving and checking voicemail)
- iWoman (what? wait, how'd that get in there...)

Criticisms of the device: Crippled bluetooth, this isn't new to phones, but still sad. Of course if any manufacturer had a better reason to do it it's Apple; they want to protect all that lovely iTunes content you spent your hard-earned cash on—not so much the MP3s you downloaded off Soulseek. Aluminum back (2G version) dents very easily, and then your sexy-factor is fucked. No landscape mode for SMS, Notes or Mail; why the heck do you have an accelerometer if you're not going to use it for the most typing-intensive apps? Retarded. Photos, I can't have multiple albums? Really? Fuck you. And finally, craptacular camera.

And now I shall hit "Publish" and hope I can format this properly sometime before 2009.