iPun

It's been a while since my last post, so I figured it was about time I put up another. My 60GB iPod photo is hanging on by the last thread of existence. And I've only got about 13GB of music on it. To have Apple fix it, would cost at least $250, and I can get a brand new 80GB Classic for that. So instead, I decided to get a hard disk and fix it myself for much less. Found a 20GB drive on Amazon for about $35 with shipping and everything. Still waiting for it to arrive, but should be here soon, and then I should be able to listen to all my music reliably. Currently with the bad disk, the iPod just locks hard at random, doesn't support sync, lost all my playlists, and fails to be generally useful. It runs the battery down quite fast in its current state as well.

I see Apple did release a 3G iPhone finally though. Too bad it's a year late on the scene. All the noise over the iPhone died out last summer, and I don't see everyone talking about lines down the street to get the 3G model. Maybe the overly expensive EDGE access on AT&T is fast enough. I switched to Sprint several months ago, as they came out with an unlimited everything plan, and the Mogul (built by HTC) does everything the iPhone can do, and more, got an update to enable EVDO rev. A. Plus I get a nice little discount, for being a referring travel agent.

Now if I could just get a private jabber server set up with all the transports I need to IM with everyone on my contact list, and get SSH working on my phone. Better UI would also be nice. Having to actually use a scrollbar, or the wheel, on a touchscreen phone is a bit annoying when i'm used to flicking the screen on the N800/N810.

Syndicated 2008-07-05 17:18:42 from dobey's blog