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I woke up today in the most evil of moods. God help the first person to annoy me. Think I shall spend today at work plugged into my headphones in the hope that everyone gets the hint and doesn’t risk life and limb by trying something silly, like breathing near me.

Rumple is a funny word. Say it out loud slowly: rumple

I won the lottery again And this time I didn’t win £10 I won £5…. grrrr

No, I’ve not suddenly removed you all from facebook (actually, I did clean things out a while ago, but if haven’t noticed yet then meh. ), I have in fact left facebook all together. The reason for this is: because. No further discussion on this topic will be entered into I’ve also given up on the online dating sites having to secure precisely 0 dates and making contact with all of 2 whole women. That will be all .

So, I’ve had the shiny for a day now, had a good play with it and can honestly say it’s great… But it could be better.

Text entry on the little keyboard takes a bit of getting used to, although I can’t help thinking just providing numbers on larger buttons and using T9 predictive text would be easier still. The predictive dictionary it comes with doesn’t seem to be as good as T9 but it’s not too bad. Text manipulation sucks. There appears to be no way of selecting, copying and pasting text which, to me is a major oversight.

Given it must have a dictionary for the predictive text there is no built in spell checker (something that most Apple applications have as standard these days). Given the state of my spelling I do tend to rely on things like that.

The camera sucks. Badly. It doesn’t cope at all well with bright sky and tends to under expose pictures if there are any strong light sources. I’ve never liked cameras on phones, but this one just seems particularly poor.

The ressesed headphone jack is a disaster. 10/10 for not using some crap proprietory connector, -1,000,000 for making it so only 5% of the worlds headphones will fit without an adaptor.  Given that problem I’ve not yet investigated the whole ‘answering the phone while listening to music’ issue.

The speakers get awfully muffled when covered which means hearing the phone when it’s in your pocket can be an issue. If you have baggy pockets (such as the ones on the trousers I am wearing) you don’t feel the vibrate either. Hopefully this will be less of an issue with headphones in since it should play alert sounds through them.

There appears to be no todo list (or I’ve just not found it yet) which is a shame since all the other PIM applications are there and seem to work well enough.

I’m also still getting to grips with the whole multitap interface thing, although that is more lack of familiarity than anything else.

I think that’s most of my major gripes. It’s still very shiny and (since I have more money than sense) I don’t think it’s too expensive. The best feature out of everything is how they display SMS conversations. Top marks there and if everything else on the phone was that good and that revolutionary I’d have paid £1000 for one, no problem.

To give you a rough idea of how fast typing on here is (or isn’t, depending on what you’re comparing it to) this blog entry was done in about 40 minutes on the train from Cromer to Norwich

Yay! I have an iPhone and can blog from it .

Today has sucked for a number of reasons (and not just for me). Feel free to share why your day sucked in the comments. Those who didn’t have a sucky day will be shot.

Quite a number of you have commented, emailed or told me to my face that I often write unique and singular items on my blog in a style that is recondite… OK, OK, what they actually said was ‘Dom, you don’t half post some crap sometimes‘. That the wording was, to a man (or woman, or flavour of soup) almost identical gives you an idea of the type of person that reads this blog In my defence I would like to draw peoples attention to the tagline: The outpourings of a deranged mind. This, to me at least, implies that I’m simply going to be spewing forth whatever crap comes to mind when I’m sat in front of the keyboard and we’ll worry about the why’s, the wherefore’s and the do you mind if you don’ts at a later time.

I’ve damaged my laminate flooring and it’s annoying the hell out of me.