Yes, I did it! I managed to get an iPhone! And after all this time s/he is yet to be named! At the moment it is called Fifikins’s jebusPhone but I do think it needs a better name… Ideas gleefully accepted!

I’ve had it for 9 days and used 60.4MB of data. This is my main worry- I know it will be hard to keep under the 150MB/month plan I am on. I think tripping to the food court whilst at work and using the free wifi might be the go to helping alleviate this. I also need to remember that I have just spent 7 days straight at work, including 2 days off and they have all been full days so usage may be a little skewed. But I am monitoring it.

Now some observations and comments:

• I totally <3 the threaded SMS function! Now I can follow conversations with different people simultaneously and not have to scroll back through messages to find their last message, then change folders to see my reply and then finally see what is happening! You know this is possibly the most exciting bit I have found so far! I know… small things amuse small minds, but still! Now I can keep conversations going with MIML™, Mum and various other people with whom I am in regular contact and have less blonde moments where I am trying to work out what the conversation is about!
• The battery… Sigh. I had one evening where it died on me. Now I did spent both breaks and lunch at work on it (maybe an hour total) plus a couple of calls and a few texts but still I was a little disappointed in the battery life or lack thereof. Since this time I have not had similar issues. I am trying to be less touchy feely with it and it seems to be working! Now to see how it holds up when I put some music on it.
• There are some way cool applications out there. I am most attached to both Twitterrific and the Facebook app and the kids love Flashlight and myLite. I used ShoZu to upload a photo to flickr last weekend and Tris (kinda like tetris!) caused a big discussion with Imogen as to how you could actually play a game when you never win and it only ends when you lose. Actually this was a very interesting conversation and perhaps a topic of another post on here!

• I love having everything, especially my calendar and contacts synced with my computer. I am using my calendar a lot more and may start taking note of it. I have had Gee’s birthday staring at me all week and yet I am yet to post her card! Doh! One of these years I’ll be on time! I am planning on experimenting more with menu planning and shopping lists which should also help me be more organised! I used to menu plan down to the last potato for the week and need to get back towards that sort of budgeting. Having it backed up on my computer (and then on my time machine) means that Ceiling Cat forbid I lose my phone I won’t lose everything.
• I alternate between having my lunch with the young uns at work and the more mature people. I can’t stand Dr Phil and if he is on in the lunchroom I refuse to sit and watch so I sit in the other area. It has been really interesting to see the reactions of colleagues though. One younger colleague told me he didn’t think he would make use of his phone because all he does is text and no one sends him emails. So I showed him the threaded texts and he was impressed! Other more mature colleagues were amazed on Monday when I showed them Richard Giles’s photos from the Beijing Closing Ceremony. Then told them I had some of my own photos on there, showed them and told them how they could use it as a brag book utilising online photo sharing or by simply storing photos on their phone.

• I have not had much success with the maps and this is something I will investigate in the near future. It may be just where I live. If I stand out on the front verandah and poke my tongue the right way then sometimes I have some luck, but not all the time. So the GPS thingy is not something I will be relying on! Well at least not in Cairns!

Oh and the pricing and plans? Yeah, the guy in the Telstra shop confirmed the loophole I have found! Well perhaps it isn’t a loophole, but still!

I am a happy little vegemite with my jebusPhone. I am looking forward finding other creative ways of using it and am almost at the stage of wondering how I ever coped without it!

Tags: iPhone, jebusPhone

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