Chris Betcher

There are moments when I really like my iPhone, yet others that frustrate the heck out of me. I finally got one a couple of months ago when my carrier, 3 Mobile , finally got the iPhone, long after nearly every other Australian mobile telco. This surprised me, since 3 Mobile were the first carrier to bring 3G services to the Australian marketplace about 8 years ago, so I was expecting that when the iPhone 3G was released in Australia that 3 Mobile would be one of the first to carry it. Not so. Until the iPhone, I was a relatively happy user of a Nokia N95 8Gb . As phones go, the N95 was a pretty impressive piece of hardware... it did a lot of things well, including an excellent 5MP camera, decent voice recorder, VGA quality video, GPS and the ability to install a reasonably impressive number of third party apps - nothing like the thousands of apps in Apple's AppStore - but it had quite a few that I found useful, including Gravity , and excellent Twitter client, and Geocache Navi...

Imagine this scenario... you are suddenly diagnosed with a life threatening disease, something very dangerous but quite curable if you have the right information about how to do so.  Your doctor knows that there is an answer to your serious problem, but cannot recall what drug is required to treat it.  He remembers reading something about it a long time ago, but can no longer recall the exact name of the drug. He reaches towards the mouse on his computer, and begins to click a link that will take him to the online medical directory where he will find the answer he needs to cure your condition. "Stop!", you declare.  "That's cheating!  If you can't remember the name of that drug without looking it up, then what sort of doctor are you?  I want you to just remember it without looking it up." Of course, I imagine that if this situation were real you would be only too happy for the doctor to do whatever was required to find the cure for your disease.  You wouldn...