My mobile phone contract was about to end again and T-Mobile was eager to get me to extend it. So they threw phones at me. A Motorola E398 is what I ended up with - hey, my most modern phone was a Nokia 6110 and Jutta grabbed that one so I was left with just the S3 Com if I didn't want to use my work phone ...
Well, the E398 is nice - it has everything you can imagine. And a bit more. If you want to know the technical specs, Motorola will happily tell you. I'm really only interested in one thing about all this fuss: Apple can exchange data with the phone and use it as a modem, but iSync only synchronizes with it via cable. Why must everything in the mobile phone environment always be completely illogical, complicated and confusing?
Oh yes, and the fact that the Motorola manual contains a lot of text but explains nothing in many parts, I don't need to mention separately. The documentation of all the options you can set is crammed in there: these options are listed again in the manual. And named. And that's it. No explanation whatsoever of what exactly you're supposed to enter there and where you'd get the information. And of course everyone immediately knows what to make of APN, IMPS, etc. Just like you naturally know straight away which IM technology the IM client uses when it doesn't say anywhere. Only with Google's help was I able to figure some things out.
Mobile phones are stupid.