Apple Iphone 3G entry into my life

Okay, it might seem a little bit outdated to be writing about this particular model here, since the introduction of Iphone 3GS in the market, but I will write about it anyway. Why Iphone 3G? Well, it’s the phone I use currently.

My journey with Iphone 3G started this year, around April, if I am not mistaken, I can’t remember the exact date when I bought it. Several phones that have been utilised by me before was Nokia 3310, Nokia 6610, Sony Ericsson K700i and Sony Ericsson W810i. Iphone was not really a love at first sight actually; I wasn’t bothered much with the hype and publicity given to this specific model during its first introduction. For me, that time it was just another product from Apple that comes with an astronomical price tag.

My first encounter with Iphone was when I was queuing in line at McDonald’s, and a customer next to my line was happily using it while queuing up. I was astounded with its bright, large screen, and the flow of the screen is so smooth. It is not the same as Windows handheld mobile touch screen, not even close. But I was just “okay” with it anyway, still not really bothered much and the astonished feeling went away immediately.

Second encounter happened when I was attending a course in Penang, where one of the participants was using it. I took my chance to try it for myself by borrowing it from him during lunch break. The smoothness and responsiveness of its touch screen really amazed me. But that was first generation of Iphone, also known as Iphone 2G. That time I started to have interest in having one of my own.

I do face difficulties buying it at first. It was not about money, it was about the market condition of Iphone 3G at that time, where demand was high but the supply was very low. I am talking about time when maxis was not supplying the Iphone here in Malaysia, officially. Lots of shop in Malaysia gets their supply from Singapore and oversea such as US, Hong Kong, Japan etc... And finally after several hiccups, I managed to have one of my own! 

Mine was bought from a shop in Imbi Plaza, and I found out about it from lowyat.net forum. It is a Singtel set, of which the price was astronomically high, but I still bought it anyway. We arranged a meeting in Petaling Jaya for COD, as I was there for a meeting, and during lunch hour I went out with my colleague, Rahmad, and we met up with the seller. I checked it thoroughly and the seller is kind enough to wait patiently for me to do full check up on the iphone before I gave him the money. Damn, I was so happy that day!

And now, 7 months later, I am still happily using it and it serves me well and I am emotionally attached to it already! Iphone is a phone that keeps getting better every single day. It really stands out from others and makes the owner gets special attention without being asked for, LOL.

I am planning to keep using it till the next generation of Iphone is introduced. I will skip Iphone 3GS though, it looks no different from its predecessor, albeit it possesses a little boost in technical specifications.

3 days of outstation transfer leave

As I mentioned earlier, i was actually on 3 days leave, after getting a transfer of workplace, from Ipoh to Penang. It was out of my knowledge at first, and I only knew about this eligibility from my fiancee. She too got transferred from Alor Setar to Penang, following a major revamp that happened in the company.

These three days leave really must have been the best moment that i've had in a while. Hmm,i  could have been exaggerating a little there, but seriously there are things that i have discovered/done that worth to be mention here.

I have already wrote about me upgrade my iphone and jailbreak it. Another thing was when I discovered my streamyx connection was high, it's like getting a marijuana supply from snoop dogg or something. It was so good that i was able to download quite a number of movies and the speed was excellent!. I could get up to 150kb/s even from oversea tracker, well that was really something indeed, considering the negative feedbacks streamyx always get from unsatisfied customers.

Following the unexpected high download speed, I managed to download several movies using torrent. However, don't expect to get such speed, if there's nothing done to set several settings in torrent client and modem/router used.

It's almost 4 a.m now, and I must sleep. I have life to live!

Iphone 3G jailbroken

It's 2.45 in the morning, and i have just finished jailbreaking my iphone 3G. It was running 3.0.1 firmware, jailbreak, and on day 3 of my outstation transfer leave, i decided to upgrade it to 3.1.2 and as usual, jailbreak. Yes, i skipped 3.1. What an odd way to start a new blog.

This is the second time i jailbreak my own iphone, the first time was when i upgraded my iphone from 2.2.1 firmware to 3.0 firmware, and jailbroke it. That time, I used redsnow 0.8 from Dev team. It was easy though.

And now, after a while since the 3.1.2 was released, I decided to upgrade and jailbreak it, and this time, blackra1n was used to jailbreak. To my surprise, it was easy! I just restored the iphone to 3.1.2 using itunes, and jailbreak it using blackra1n and thats it!

For those who dont quite understand all the processes mentioned, it's ok, it will not do harm to anyone's life in any way. My name is Hidayat Fahmi and welcome to my blog.