The guys over at philmug have come up with this nice little fix. I couldn’t get my sennheiser cx300 in ears to work with the iPhone because the L type jack interferes with the recessed jack.
A cheap solution is said to buy one of these. An original apple product for the very ancient shuffle. If luck is on your side, you might be able to find one of these at the bargain bin of some electronics shop; and like most of the products that gets churned out of the Apple factory, it’s in tasty white.
The Shuffle Sport Case has a headphone adapter packaged with it.
The price of iPhones in Philippines is ridiculously high. Considering that it’s being sold for USD$399 (roughly $430 including sales tax), importers are having an early Christmas retail high by selling unlocked iPhones ranging from $550 to 600.
Fortunately I was able to get one for much lower. The story behind it was that some guy bought an iPhone for $550 and wanted to sell it that same day for 60 bucks less. SMS/Texting is such a big thing in the Philippines that texting difficulties of the iPhone was enough of a deal breaker for anonymous guy (I forgot to ask for his name. I was so excited that I didn’t even bother to ask. Sorry, I forgot about common courtesy.) to not even give it a whole day to get used to the iPhone’s quirks.
So there I was with an iPhone in my hand. The very next day, I went to Digital Walker and got myself a Capdase screen protector. I am a voracious researcher when it comes to my brand new electronics, and I did see the youtube video of the iPhone stress test, but I wanted to make sure. My keys and spare change usually find themselves spin drying along with my mobile phone in my pocket, and the iPhone is just too pretty to get dings and scratches.
Next stop was a silicone case. Again stating the obvious, that the iPhone hasn’t been officially released in South East Asia, getting nice accessories for the iPhone can be a chore. Either the electronics or mobile phone stores haven’t yet stocked up on iPhone accessories, or they’ve purchased too little and the rabid iPhone fanboys (me included) buzz about in local forums pointing an enthusiastic finger at those stores that carry the much coveted accessories. I went to 3 different stores mentioned in those forums and alas, they were sold out. My only option was to get a cheapo silicone case at a mobile phone kiosk. I only paid USD$2 for it, and I am really loving it.
Photos to come soon.
I would have wanted the Speck iPhone ToughSkin, but it’s nowhere to be found.
Ok, back to the original point of this post — The Cost of Buying an iPhone. I paid $490 for my iPhone, add to that 10 bucks for the silicone case and screen protector to keep it scratch free, gets me to a nice round figure of 500 bucks. However, for the past couple of weeks I have been diligently selling all my iPods. I dusted off my 1st gen 4 gig nano whitey from the closet and I was able to sell it for 80 bucks. My orange shuffle is also up for sale, and I’m hoping I’d get 50 or 60 bucks for it; add to that the 200 bucks I got for my e61 (which is no longer mine).
After more than 1 year of E61 bliss, I’ve finally retired my trusty phone. I was getting seriously concerned that the joystick/thumbstick is getting loose and might die on me pretty soon. So I just shut my eyes and jumped.
I was never really a big fan of apple products. I was pretty late getting into the iPod bandwagon (my first HDD based music player was an iRiver ihp120), but I couldn’t resist anymore. The huge sexy widescreen touchscreen display was just too much to be ignored. So with a heavy heart, I went to Greenhills (our electronics hub in the Philippines) and sold my E61. I’ve also been disposing of my old iPods — the orange shuffle and the first gen Nano whitey.
As of this writing, I am happily synching 6 gigs worth of music to the iPhone. I’m also converting some of my dvds to test drive the iPhone’s movie capabilities. First ones on the list are 300, Evil Dead and Hot Fuzz.
So I guess my blog is out of retirement. I will be posting some info on how I managed to upgrade my 1.02 firmware and jailbreak it to allow usage of my globe sim card.
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