After a few false starts before finding the guide I linked to previously, I’m up and running on T-Mobile flawlessly. Everything Just Works, aside from the Visual Voicemail — you just get regular voicemail. Fine by me, since i use Grand Central, which has its own visual voicemail system.

Given how well this works, I don’t understand why Apple did the exclusivity thing. They should have gone it alone, sold these things unlocked in their stores and let people choose their carrier. If these phones are as sexy and desirable as expected, the carriers could implement the voicemail feature independently as an enticement to choose them.

The predictive text/autocorrect thing is all at once ingenius, infuriating, and inconsistent. I probably need to adjust how I operate. An example of inconsistency is that I’m composing this on my phone (via the web interface no less), and after the first paragraph, it stopped offering suggestions.

Best mobile browser I’ve used so far, bar none. Nice mail client, and I’ve got ssh (and sshd) going, so the only real things left are to get my calendar and contacts synced — I’ve yet to sync this with iTunes — and adjust to this bloody keyboard.

The experiment continues.

Update: My first sync with iTunes went fairly well. All the mail settings and bookmarks I’d meticulously set up last night and this morning were blown away by the versions on my computer, but I think I’ve got that settled.

I’d like to point something out on the iTunes Music Store Ringtones Frequently Asked Questions page. Nowhere on this page is what I’m sure is the most frequently asked question: Why do I have to pay for this?