Wednesday August 22, 2007
iPhone, therefore…
The Apple store trip today was, well, a trip. It was very neat slapping down $2,400 on the counter and humbly requesting three iPhones, a copy of Aperture, and two iWork '08 family packs. Note that the cash for one of those iPhones and the family packs was provided to me by those in Panama requesting delivery service.
First impressions: holy shit Jesus, the iPhone is spectacular. (Sorry for the language, Mom, if you read this.) It's a tank. It's tiny. It's glossy and pretty. It. Just. Works. So, first thing I do with it is sit down at a Starbucks, whip out my laptop, unwrap the iPhone, and immediately jailbreak it, pretend to activate it, and install a butt-load of custom software, including Apache, Python, and a NES emulator, amongst others.
With OpenSSH installed, and the already world-class e-mail, web browser, and VPN apps built-in, I can truly perform every action my sysadmin position demands… with my phone. Well, everything except send or receive calls, that is. Until I get my hands on one of these beauties (blank Turbo SIM) and follow some important directions that involve a lot of waiting, the iPhone isn't truly unlocked.
I'll have some high resolution picture goodies uploaded sometime soon (probably after tomorrow's walkabout) which will help put everything in scale. Also, I'll be showing off a few software glitches that are either amusing, or not.
— Alice.