I know, I know, you all told me so: Even though I told everyone I wouldn’t get an Apple iPhone this year, I still did. I got some money as a tax return and was thinking of buying an iPod Touch 8GB. The iPod Touch is such a wonderful media device, and I thought it wasn’t hard to justify buying it. But then I noticed that the iPod Touch 16GB is only £70/€94 less affordable, which was actually still within my “budget”.

But if I could get an iPod Touch 16GB, then why would I not get an iPhone for that same price and hack it? Yes it has only 8GB of storage, but you do get a phone in return. I wouldn’t need 16GB right?

And this is how I justified my iPhone…. Still happy with it though!

So there are some “ramifications” and “perks” that you get with an iPhone. Most of which I will get into later. For now I must say that yes, 8GB is really enough for me. And I am very happy to also get a phone integrated with the iPod, even though it was a lot of work to get the phone part to properly work with a prepaid sim. The best feature though that sets the iPod-on-iPhone experience apart from that on the iPod Touch is the ability to skip songs by “double clicking” the microphone in the headset. On the iPod Touch you can’t skip songs without the touchscreen.

Well, more later. I will especially explain some curiosities about the UK iPhone that ships wit Firmware 1.1.2 and the new bootloader at the moment.