This guy who did this has recently died from cancer aged 17, so this is kind of in memory of him.
thread is here
and this is the actual conversation

(Boomp3 link)
may he rest in peace
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I love my iPhone lol. Everything is so esay on it. And this is coming form someone who has owned 6 HTC phones and 1 UIQ device in the last year.
It trumps them all for me. But this is me. When there is a reason to jailbreak it, I will. I haven't yet because I'm on O2, so don't need it unlocked, and because there are no launchers or apps for 2.0 yet so...
But I am finding it hard to find fault with it, and I'm sure an upgrade to the 3G one will come when the price is more like £300 - £350 rather than £450 - £500.
That said, I do love the way on all my WM phones, I could download any one of a million cabs and it would probably work, no such luck with my iPhone. The google app is great but is basically just links to the web versions of things. Apple remote for itunes won't work properly, Carling's iPint is funny but lasts about 2 minutes as a game, and all the rest of the good apps cost, and I'm not prepared to pay.
Jailbreaking will probably bring pirated apps I guess.

But one last thing, no matter what I've seen anyone do on wm to wmulate the iPhone, nothing comes close to it's smoothness. But it does have a Diamond-like lag in that it loads the background to the app, then about a second later the rest of it. Similar to the diamond loading tabs from what I've seen.
Anyways, I'm not some iPhone fanboy as you can probably see from my join date and post count (although a bunch of my posts are, I will admit, pretty useless) So don't come over here flaming me for foriming aa balanced opinion.
Rory

(taken directly from a post by me on XDA-Developers My User Link)
Ok, so what didn't i say up there...
Oh yeah the iPod is absolutely f**king amazing
So easy to use, so much easier than a scroll wheel, and plays about twice as loud as my iPod nano 2G (the one that looks like a shrunken iPod mini) because that had a volume limit.
It was annoying at first that it had a recessed headphone jack, because it meant that I couldn't use my Shure headphones, but it's ok, because i've gotten used to the included headphones, and they do have a pretty good range of sound, and as they're so loud, there is no need for them to e sound isolating like my Shure's and previously my Sennheiser CX300's.
The web is amazing, and having used opera 9.5 from the very early betas, I can safely say that opera should be sued for sopyright infringement. Every single thing on the iPhone is copied by Opera. But I guess apple are happy that peopple love their browser so much that competitors (kind of anyway) just rip it off.
I also love the mail app, its easy to useworks perfectly with fingers, and well ust works. Although sometimes it doesn't say I've read stuff wehn I ave, but I'll forget that.
Earlier today, i began putting in last names for a few of my contacts so I could differentiate between them, and I ended up doing all of them ebcause it ws so easy. I actually enjoyed editing contacts.
Then there's stocks, I'm not a broker, but I follow my BB.L stock and today finally found out that it was higher than the price theyre selling me extra stock at. (my stock was at about 500p a share 18 months ago, 180 in may, and plummeted to 31p at the beginning of july, so I'm glad to see it on the rise.) And B&B have been offering to sell me extra shares at 55P for ages, while the actual price was way below that, idiots)
Back to my iPhone
The camera takes great pictures, and takes them very quickly too.
The app store is great, but doesnt have much I want on it, but there are some good proof of concepts like iMaze, basically a rip off of teeter on the Diamond with no holes. But it doesn't interpret small movements at all, so needs loads of improvement.
Feel free to ask questions, and look forward to my upcomign review of my Acer Aspire One. Which should have pictures of both Vista and OS X leopard running on it.
Rory

Oh my God!
Myself and Mark are starting a new site, which will hopefully make us some money.

Having been inspired by the launch of the HTC Touch diamond, and the amount of coverage it got on MoDaCo.com and TracyandMatt.co.uk, I suggested we make our own equivalent site. Earlier today, we did discuss selling the Diamond, and this seems the perfect place to do it. Also, it may well [if we make the right connections] give us the chance to unbox new devices, which would be so amazing its untrue.
So time for us to get someone to design a logo, me to get researching contacts, and calling the right people, and Mark to get making the site (most of which I'm sure will be stolen from here)
So my next post may well be on the new site, although, im hoping its more technologically orientated than random occurrences like this
Rory
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Im actually amazingly happy right now
United are on course to win 2 trophies
I have my athena and AP4
And omfg can you get better than a PS3 on a 37 inch 1080p tv? Yeah you can
GT5P and NFSS and MGO :O
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is so amazing it makes your mind boggle. The graphics look like real life
Need for speed has actually a great game engine, but i liked it better when it was a street game, now its a bit too keen. Plus, due to trying to get linus on my ps3, ive lost my NFSS save files as they were copy protected which is slightly gay
And im waiting for Metal Gear Online [yes i did say Metal Gear Online] to download its update, i only downloaded it today, but it seems to want to get an update and its a compulsory update. It does however have a great update method in that you can do it like it was a torrent, or a direct http download.
And of course, GTA IV on tuesday, ill be at HMv getting mine at about 4pm so school might be given a miss on weds...
And the MGO download is aping my internet, so im now connected through my athena, getting speeds of about 1.8Mbps [well im guessing but what the heck] on HSDPA

So in general life is good...

But on the downside, i maybe should have done at least some revision in the holidays
i literally did none...

So go fuck yourself mark and be depressed somewhere else

Yes, you read it right, I am awaiting deluvery of two phones. Both of super specification so i shan't be disappointed. And seeing as I've had one of them before, I know I wont be. But sadly, eBay sellers just dont post things very quickly at all. So both phones are going to take a day longer to come than they should have. My MDA Vario III comes tomorrow, with my T-Mobile Ameo coming on Thursday.
And... Myself and Mark are going to make a series of video comparisons between the Vario, Ameo and Mark's Touch. The things tested will be video playback, soft-reset times, internet speed, general benchmarking, and gps software. Also, we will assess the general 'feel' of each device, so things like how easy it is to write with the keyboard, or how many buttons you have to press to get to a specific application, basically usability issues.
So you better look forward to it. It should be up on Thursday
Rory