Living with the JesusPhone

Hurrah and Huzzah. I am home at last... well, I have been home for about a week but I have neglected my blog in place of many important tasks such as seeing missed friends, searching for a job (my most hated of activities) and of course getting a hold of the iPhone 3G.

As you may have read back in July, my trusty K800i gave up after around 22 months of loyal service. Upon arriving home I quickly went about trying to acquire another phone. I was given two phones but each one was locked to a different carrier and, as I am new to Balham, I have no idea where I would go to get these things unlocked. This of course proved to me that an iPhone was meant to be and after much confusion and O2 generally being arses I managed to procure an 8GB GodPhone.

It arrived on Monday so I have had a while to play with it and come up with a few first impressions.

Firstly, it's beautiful. But everyone knows that and everyone knows how fun the multi touch interface is. I haven't had any of the problems that seem to be popping up on Mac and iPhone forums. My battery life is as expected - if I use Wi-Fi or 3G to surf the web  and download apps from the app store or use the GPS to find my way I get about 13 hours of battery life. If I leave it in standby and only use the net every no and then, it'll last for days. As I bought it because I liked the idea of always having internet access, I am happy to charge it every night.

My 3G signal is fine. Inside the house I get two bars which is still enough to comfortably surf websites. Outside I get full signal. In fact yesterday I had to go to Ealing Broadway and on the final part of the journey where the tube goes over ground I managed to read my e-mails to get an address and then use Google maps to search that address. All from a train carriage.

As you can see I have never had mobile internet so this is all rather exciting. It's a long way from spending 5 minutes checking your e-mails and paying about £2 for the privilege. 

Broken phone

I thought I should probably post again regarding what I wrote yesterday. I was mainly talking about in our price range... we have since found a few English or French restaurants but they are on the more expensive end of the spectrum.

I also thought I better post and say my phone has died. I'm not sure what finally did it but it has been on it's way out for a while. The little joy stick didn't go up and pictures kept coming up as scrambled. Oh well, it just means that as soon as I get a job I will have to invest in a 3G iPhone... it just wouldn't be proper not to.

Oh... and Jordan's phone doesn't work in Japan so at the moment we are uncontactable by phone.

Illness

I'm ill for the second day today. I was good though and went to see the doctor. He thinks it's just a virus that has been going round, which is a relief as I thought my sore throat might have been the start of yet another bout of tonsillitis. I usually get tonsillitis about two of three times a year and it completely debilitates me for a week.

Other than that, on Sunday I picked up a digital camera - mainly for use on our holiday this summer. It's a Sony Cybershot DSC-W55. I haven't had a chance to really test it out as I haven't left the house much because of illness and rain. The pictures I've taken in the flat look quite nice - a lot better than the slightly under performing camera on my Sony Erikson K800i (3.2 Megapixel).

I also picked up a 4GB Memory Stick from Amazon. It was £20 new from a Marketplace seller - not a bad deal I think considering I paid £60 for a 1GB stick just over two years ago.