iPhone Links of Interest

In an effort to get some traffic to my blog, I am posting about the iPhone. Just kidding. I want some traffic, but in reality I have the hots for the iPhone.

When it came out, I discounted it due to its apparent lack of keyboard and its lack of my favorite flash memory format, the SD card. I read all that I could about it and had previously read a lot about the T-Mobile Dash and Wing since I am with T-Mobile and really want a smartphone. Late last year, maybe November 2007, I finally decided that I wanted an iPhone. I had an opportunity to play with a friends iPhone and play with them and the iPod Touch at my local Apple store and was quite impressed. I read the iPhone manual as well.

There are some nearly fatal omissions to the iPhone, in my opinion, but it is so slick and the interface so logical and organized that I now feel that I "owe it to myself" to get an iPhone.

My two year commitment to T-Mobile will "mature" this month (January), so I figure I'll be clear to jump to AT&T with my mobile phone number. I have researched trying to run the iPhone on T-Mobile and it almost seems like a viable alternative, but I really don't want to make time to reload my phone software and hacks everytime something doesn't work quite right, so I am leaning towards the AT&T route.

I like building computers too, but with limited funds and limited time, I really haven't built a system since before I first went back to school in 2001. I modified or built about 7 systems from 1997-1999, but got heavily into stock car racing in 1998 through 2001, so my computer tweaking fell by the wayside. I'd rather get back into that or something new to me (Flash game programming) rather than spending all my spare time tending to my wife and I's hacked T-Mobile iPhones. So, it seems most practical to go the AT&T route even though I have been real happy with T-Mobile.

As for hacking the iPhone, some available hacks are still worth investigating. I'll gather links to some of the hacks sites for reference in case your browser won't pull up the Google website.

For now though, I will just fight the urge to go buy our iPhones for as long as I can.

If I can find how to access my home network with an iPhone and at least view documents from my network, then my desire for an SD card slot will no longer matter.

More to come...