Thoughts and Illusions

Woohoo! So I got my iPhone about a week ago, and ever since then I have been pimping it =p Well not so much - just adding a couple of cool 3rd-party applications, change some icons and now in the process creating my own theme =P I would’ve never guessed it that modding the iPhone could bring so much joy, provided you succeed everytime without bricking it of course, lol.

My firmware version is 1.1.2 OTB, “jailbroken” and is currently only unlocked to O2-UK SIM =( Rumours say that Apple is releasing firmware 1.1.3 update very soon, which if you have used AnySim to unlocked your iPhone, expect the update to brick it.

I’ve tried a couple of 3rd-party applications and my favourite has gotta be Listen.app. There are times when you’re in the car, tuning to the radio and there’s this song playing and you want to know what song is it? Then this app is perfect. Just hold the iPhone to the music and it will tell you the info including artist name, song and album! It’s freaking clever. I’ve even tried a couple of Malay, Japanese and Chinese songs and I’m impressed at what it can do. It works like a charm! I also like the iFlickr.app which allows you to take a snapshot from your iPhone and the app sends it automatically to your Flickr account.

The iAthan app is awesome too. It works just how you would expect from the Athan program; notify you prayer times. It even gives the direction of Qiblat as well as the dates of important islamic events, for example, Ramadhan shall fall around 1st September this year. The Quran app delivers what it meant to do and I think it’s very handy to have it in my iPhone. You can look up all the Surahs in the Quran and it even comes with pre-recorded vocal recitals as well as translations to English and Malay and a transliteration to alphabets.

A few months back while anticipating for the iPhone release date in UK, I got turned off by the iPhone contract tariff from O2. After seeing all the hype prior to the release of the iPhone, I thought it’s overrated. Well it sucks if you get tied up with the iPhone tariff. At least I’m not on it. And at this stage, I don’t think I want to get any other phone, because nothing beats the iPhone =p I even dumped my N95 lol.