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Title says it all.

Rocked up on Friday to the Apple store expecting an hour of arguing about why the phone was so shit as a phone. Mostly I felt like this because the guy at the Optus store said it would take 2 weeks to get fixed.

Was forced to book an appointment at the “Genius Bar”. Didn’t bode well for the support experience initially, but I made an appointment and came back then.

What I got was an absolute surprise. Went up the tech, explained the problem and he walked away and came back with a new phone, which he swapped for my phone. He then printed a service receipt and I was done and walking out the door with a hopefully better working new iPhone.

So far it seems to drop less calls, which is a good thing, but that may be because I don’t use it as much as I was last week. Also to it’s benefit the 3G internet definitely seems much better than the one I had before.

Miguel from the mono project does it again: A 100% managed command prompt library to help us build windows console apps that behave almost as well as those in the unix world.

So I tried to update my iPhone software on friday to get better 3G, at the end of the update the machine wouldn’t start again or activate.

Cue 20 minutes of “oh shit”. A restore from the pre-update backup meant a working 2.0.2 iPhone though, but that’s no way for a “polished” system upgrade to work.

So one thing that’s been most disappointing about my recent move to iPhone world has been the lack of decent software tools. It seems that most of the app devs have not had enough time to port their apps over to the 2.0 version of the iPhone OS.

I can’t find a decent multi-protocol IM client in either App Store or other sources that doesn’t require me to give up all my IM credentials to another 3rd party. And in case you didn’t get that part, this means Parlingo and Meebo are out of the question. I’d rather keep my passwords to myself thank you very much.

Update: It looks like fring may be the one. Can’t get it on the iphone 3G yet so will have to wait and see.

I caved and got one. Will give it a few months before I consider going back to a more fuller featured phone.

The first app I installed was the worspress app that this post was made from.