I love my iPhone
I bought an iPhone while in Miami last week, just before boarding the Enchantment of the Seas. I hoped to get one of the last 1.02 firmware phones made by Apple but was unlucky (it seems that iPhones are still going extremely fast and that Apple stores restock very often). As a result, I was left with a useless US$399 brick, since I had no intention whatsoever to activate the device with AT&T.
Fortunately the iPhoneDev team was hard at work hacking the newer 1.1.1 firmware. By the time I reached the Bahamas, they had already found a way to activate the phone. The procedure isn’t very straightforward but now with iNdependence it has become fairly easy. That allowed me at least to start using the iPhone as a nice, expensive iPod. However, I didn’t have to wait for long to unlock the phone since developers released anySIM 1.1.1 yesterday and soon after getting home I was enjoying full phone functionality.
I must say that I am extremely pleased with the device. For the first time in years I no longer have three devices hanging off my belt. Gone is my trusty Palm as well as my (not as trusty) Sony-Ericsson cell phone. Now everything I need is finally delivered by a single device. I even look slimmer!
There is a downside, though. It turns out that all my IBM colleagues now want an iPhone and they all seem to expect me to unlock it. In fact my first incoming call was from a friend who had already heard that I had unlocked my phone. My first assignment will be tomorrow. I hope everything works well. I should probably print a disclaimer and hand it out to my friends. Nah!