Its th 16th of December and I’ve had my iPhone for a month. So what are my thoughts so far?

Well overall I’m really pleased. I can easily say the main features I’ve used are Mail and Safari . Since Gmail opened up IMAP, I’ve got my gmail accounts set up in Mail.app so I get all my mail straight to my hand, so I can keep on top of the Google Groups, blog comments, and various other emails I get.

I really love the Maps. While I had Google Maps on my last phone, its nothing compared to the experience on an iPhone. The scrolling is fantastic, and even though its on EDGE, loading of the maps seems so much faster. Its also really easy to look up people in my contacts list, or look for business (which came in handy recently) as they appear in the search box as you type. The routing is great, and really well animated which makes it so much nicer to use.

The SMS conversations are great. I would like to be able to forward texts, send multi-recipient messages. I’d also like to be able to clear conversations up to a point (to save a specific message), but besides that, its a hell of a lot nicer dealing with texts in a chat form, rather than an email format.

There isn’t much else I can say that hasn’t been said a hundred times on a hundred blogs. I look forward to the future software updates and am excited to see what Apple offer for new features.

For what its worth, my thoughts on Macworld are this: No iPhone 2.0, no 3G iPhone announcement, more likely details of the SDK, software examples, the coveted ultra-thin Macbook or Tablet, maybe a power boost on the rest of the line.
One thing I’d like to see is a bump on the Airport Express, and see it taken up to 802.11n, although I have just bought one of eBay so that would upset me a bit.

Well we’ll be discussing the topics of the keynote at MMUG that night so if you’re in the area, come along.

Well its my birthday next week. Grand old age of 24. Not really an anything age. Of course people are asking me about presents. And I don’t know what to say. At this very point in time, I can’t think of anything I want. The only thing I want is an iPhone and thats being paid for by my bonus this month, and its not even out for about 7 weeks.

But nothing comes to mind. No CD’s, DVD’s, things for the house, books, electrical goods, clothes, nothing. And that just leaves me feeling empty strangely. You would thing that the person who wants nothing has everything they could ask for and must be happy. But I’m not. I’m unhappy. Not always. And not in a constant depressive state, but in bouts of unhappiness. I was feeling like this yesterday. I think what is missing? Well a few things. Good friends for starters. I don’t really have anyone who I speak to loads, or hang out with lots. No best friend. Really its just the band who are my friends. And thats depressing to me. I have had a few rough times with friends in the past (accused of racism by my best friend, later, found out that my group of friends all thought i was a scheming manipulative person who cared about no one else, and then abandoned after I went out with my friends ex even though he was a complete b**stard to her and completely warranted being dumped but of course its not how well you know someone or how much you trust them, but the how LONG you know them that matters, and as the most recent friend, I get cut out easily. Well I hope you’re all miserable living at home with your parents still, doing the same thing you used to, not growing up and getting on with life) RANT! Wow.

So then i think “well I have no hobby that can be a present source” and I think what do I have in my life? I have the band, which I love being in, and the rest of my time is spent doing house stuff, or on my laptop.
I wanna expand my horizons. Next month I’m going to the Midlands Mac User Group in Birmingham. Hoping I’ll meet some interesting people who I get on well with and can geek out around. And maybe make a friend.

So really I’m just feeling sad with life. I’m not really enjoying work, can’t leave because its worth my time to stick around till next year, am running low on cash after moving and a holiday (£600 into overdraft!).

And next week its my birthday. And all I want to do is let is blow by.  I’m gonna go out for a meal with Katie and thats it. Not taking the day off cos whats the point. Nothing I want to look forward to. So bring on 24. Show me what you can do!