Like a certain CEO, I once described myself as “cut my arm off and I’ll bleed a rainbow, thats how much of an Apple man I am”, this was quite ironic when it came from Steve of course because not long after he was chucked out of Apple and the rest is history. I however am still an Apple man, without a break in the procedings like our friendly CEO. I actively avoid any item of tech from Redmond. It makes me feel kinda dirty when I touch it, in a bad way, if you know what I mean.

For some time now I have wanted a PDA/phone. I toyed with the idea of a Palm Trio, but the bandits that run the UK mobile telephone businesses refuse to see Palm as good for their business. They instead look to Symbian, Microsoft and RIM for their phone operating systems. I have had a Nokia 6600 for some time and a 7650 before that. The Symbian on these phones is really only one step up from Nokia’s own Phone OS and although quite reliable, its pretty boring and the screens are tiny.
RIM blackberry is quite new to the UK populus, and there doesn’t seem to be that much software. Its an email device as far as I can tell, that also does phone calls.

It is with much regret then I have to inform the world that this Saturday, in a moment of great weakness, I purchased an upgrade to my trusty 6600 phone and replaced it with an O2 XDAIIi PocketPC PDA.
The hadrware is great, Bluetooth, WiFi, Triband GSM/GPRS, SD/IO slot, 1.3MP camera – the list goes on. On upgrade it was £175. Thats £20 cheaper than the alternative Ericsson 910 – bizzare. The software is another matter however because it is the latest and greatest version of Windows Mobile. The updates have already started and I am just downloading the latest ROM. I must also remember not to let the battery expire as when it does all my data will follow suit.

If Apple would get their finger out of their asses and produce something like this (in an Apple way) with an Apple OS on it I would buy one for £500, but alas no, they really are not interested and are getting Moto to put iTunes on one of their propriotory handsets instead. This is aparently due Monday. Should I have waited – probably but as I hold very little hopes for the device (hey I already have an iPod), I’m not going to lose any sleep about it.
With the whole convergence thing happening, Apple are going to lose ground to MS here, I think.

Anyway, so I am learning pocket Windows, and to add insult to injury I just had to purchase Missing Sync too, which I now find out doesn’t work with Tiger! New compatable version due “real soon now”. Makes you want to weep doesn’t it.

I don’t feel so bad about the problems with Sync to Mac however, because I have just been reminded how crap the PC is, it is also playing up now – so it could be worse, my laptop could be windows as well.
Yeah, right – when Vista freezes over!
TTFN