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Just today, I’ve started to receive spam messages (those same “buy this stock” crap messages that come in via email too) on my iPhone through text messages from the AIM gateway. I never signed my phone into AIM, so I’m not sure what’s going on here. I’ll be calling AT&T and updating this post with my experiences. Since I have a limited number of texts, this could prove to be a dealbreaker between me and AT&T unless they can get it to stop.
Stitches out…
Since I haven’t written anything previously on here about this, first a recap.
On July 2nd, while walking through my garage I was attacked by a midget ninja. Actually, I stumbled and drug my shin across the exhaust shield on my dad’s pressure washer. This caused a pretty 3.5″ gash on my leg that required a trip to the Parker Adventist Hospital ER and 9 stitches.
I just got the stitches out finally and it looks like it’s healing well according to the nurse who took out the stitches.
Why do I love thee iPhone?
So, against my better judgment, I broke down and bought an iPhone. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the AT&T network where I spend most of my days, but the iPhone itself is… well, it’s pretty sweet.
The iPhone is more limited than most of the other smartphones I’ve used in the past (mainly Windows Mobile & Palm Treos), but what it does it does VERY well. It was really telling when I was able to hop on the ‘net and get tickets to this week’s Major League Soccer All-Star Game (here in Denver) in the car on the way to Ft. Collins. My Treo would have made that painful, if it even worked at all (”JavaScript not ready…” is seen OFTEN with Blazer).
The fact that it’s an iPod too is a bonus. I find myself listening to music on it at times I never work have previously, simply because it’s there. Sure the Treo could play music, but it was a pain in the ass to get songs onto it and play them.
Visual Voicemail is a treat. Not a necessity, but it’s a “wow, that’s nice”.
Sure, there could be less clicks to get to the phone from locked… and an actual IM app would be great Apple… but for a Revision 1.0 device, it does what it does remarkably well.