lol, well mine 3gs seems to be handling the update ok, it doesn't add very much feature-wise tho.
i'm kina getting to understand how it works now after a whole day fraught with problems and "what the fuck!", and the bottom line i spose is that iPhone when first released was designed for people primarily as a combined style item AND a phone for those who actualy didnt want to do anything customisation-wise. I'm also learning how tied in to apple desktop OS it is, you really need a mac to get the best out of it or frankly to use it 100%, not sure how you'd backup contacts without a mac for instance.
i finaly discovered how to make the texting text bigger than the default "miniscule point size" so that's now a bit better, although i cant see why apple decides to force texting in a tiny panel which sits inside a massive light-blue area which does nothing & is wasted space - seems to me i'd rather type and see the text appear full-screen-width in the larger light-blue area above the typing box.. oh well.
i kinda also like the speech bubbles to layout txt's sorted by contact-name into 'threads', but on the othe hand i think i'd also like an option to make those bubbles switch to a standard list.. i'd also like to be able to sort txts by sent/ inbox/outbox/drafts etc but i can also see that the text-list design must be a consequence of the overall OS design which as far as i can see is done so that everything (email/text/phone etc) is all tied to each contact-name in your book as the primary upper-tier way it works. Everything starts with the contact names and works down from that it seems.
still not sure whether to go android tho. I've got a brand new HTC Wildfire sitting here whimpering, and i'm tempted by 2 things
1. better customisability
2. i dont wanna go iphone 4 (hence i ponced the old 3gs) and if iphone 5 is a bit of a let down when released, i wont loose so much going android instead now, cos i could upgrade to whatever Desire HD model is out at that time, and it'd prolly cost about £380 instead of £580 for the iphone, and i've seen the current Desire non-hd model in action and it is phenomenal.
the biggest thing that is useless on iphone is the total inability of your computer to see it as a USB mass-storage device and simply copy images/music/video to/from the phone... the whole itunes thing i really dont like - i did discover a tip tho; you can easily copy images to your mac using Image-Capture (in applications), dead easy! now if ONLY you could do the same for music, but it's 100% tied in to itunes.
on the other hand i get the whole itunes integration for buying media & apps and organising.. i just hate itunes tho, lol
i reckon iphone is so tied in to itunes & apple desktop etc and switching is such a nightmare that apple iphone users are kinda forced in some way to "carry-on apple" once they've bought in to the system
bottom line i think is the iphone is designed to be regularly docked, and then you do the real organising on your desktop mac... dump camera images as often as possible etc. On other phones backup is more about not losing stuff. on iphone it seems more essential to organising things.
dammit! decisions decisions!
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