So, I recently crossed to the dark side (apple) and got an iPhone 3g. I previously had an AT&T tilt, HTC 8925, and loved it! But my wife needed a new phone and she never really got the hang of windows mobile, she kept saying well my Treo… After showing her how to use it I found my self liking it more and more. Before I knew it I was picking up her phone to do stuff (ie: check my fantasy score, look up the nearest BBQ joint, and etc)

Well, I’ve had it for about 2 weeks now and I’m loving it. I’ve gotten over my “I hate iTunes” fit and things are working pretty smooth. During the iPhone/iTunes switch I decided to do away with her windows profile and just combined it with mine, mainly because I was tired of doing everything twice (setting up iTunes & Picasa3.)After a little work, I am happy to say I am syncing 2 iPhones to the same iTunes with different contacts and calendars while syncing to Outlook 07. It was pretty easy, I just had to create a group for each of us and import her contacts and calendar.  Anyway back to the phone. Lets start with “Things the iPhone doesn’t do.” (yet hopefully)iPhone 3g; firmware: 2.2; non-jailbroken (I know some of these things can be done to a jailbroke phone)

• Forward text messages
• Record video
• Send & receive mms
• Play .avi video files (or any other video file besides .mp4)
• Completely copy & paste through out the entire phone
• Transfer files via bluetooth
• Can only send 1 picture in an email

Ok, it seems you can overlook a lot when it does the things you like better than anything else.”Things I Like”

•  The App Store (I couldn’t imagine having an iPhone with out it)
• Mobile Safari (the best mobile browser I’ve used and I’ve tried everything for windows mobile)
• Google Maps with GPS (It freaking puts a dot where you are and it moves with you) <- that’s amazing
• Mail – I connect to my gmail and it really integrates well using Gmail’s imap
• Remote – this is an app that will connect you to your iTunes library and controls it on that local computer (really handy if you have a(few) airport express)
• As said before my wife has an iPhone too, and I installed Remember the Milk and linked both our phones to the same account so she can add my “honey-dos”

For those of you who are like me and ragged on the iPhone and now have one, I bet people are giving you that hard time back. Well I made a wallpaper to help me feel better and let mac users know where I stand. Feel free to download and use it yourself.

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