iPhone blogging

I managed to post the title of this post from my iphone, but it
wouldn't let me type in the body portion of the post which means
I'm typing this from my laptop. dang.

The good news however is that my iphone is finally functioning
as a phone. I got it for christmas 2007 from my lovely wife but
since at&t's service in Colombia is spotty I didn't turn it on officially,
I had to jailbreak it. I didn't take it the last step and turn it on as
a cell phone in colombia because I was supposed to be a gringo on the
down-low, not a gringo with a $600 phone. I just used it sporadically
for wifi surfing and as and ipod.

Here in italy I'm just another poor american who gulps every time I
do the conversion from euros to dollars. I'z can has a nice phones.
I spent a couple of days upgrading it to 2.2, ibricking it, unbricking it
jailbraking it then activating it as a cell. It's pretty cool. It knows where
I am even though I have no gps. I downloaded a free ebook reader and
I've got about 2 months worth of reading material for free. It's so cool
even reading 'anne of green gables' looks cool.

With a single click I can track my stocks as they circle the drain. I'll know
in real-time when I'm officially poor again. Beat that great depression I!
The bread lines for this depression will be much more interesting, with people
twittering and texting. you might be shuffling and downtrodden, but the world
will know you are shuffling and downtrodden.

Iphone unlock blues

My lovely wife gave me an iphone for christmas in the hope that
we can hack into it and use on the cellphone network here colombia.
It almost worked, I spent 10 hours or so searching and researching
and I found the best set of instructions at Iclarified.

The instructions were good enough to get my phone jailbroken in
about 2 hours, not including the time that I kept searching the interwebs
for the last piece of the puzzle, how do I unlock the sim card in a new
iphone with the new bootloader 4.6?
(it was interesting that last week I couldn't understand what all
the iphone bulletin boards were saying, unlock, jailbreak, 1.1.2,
bootloader, now I feel ready to do open heart surgery on my cell
phone)

It appears that I can't. not yet. unless I buy all the equipment to edit
a simcard, it doesn't look like it will happen until the next version of
iphone software comes out. or maybe never. That's really a shame, because
the iphone without a phone is almost worth the money, I can surf the net
on wifi, zoom around on google earth, and apparently there are a lot
of games to download. The camera is almost as good as my previous
digital camera, and typing is a breeze compared with keying in "wassup"
on my cell phone.

If this thing worked as a phone I'd happy with it, the high cost would be
worth it as I zoom around through playlists and contact information.
Unfortunately, not yet, I'm stuck carrying my old ipod and my crappy
phone. Come on Steve Jobs, set my cell phone free.