I love my iphone, mumsnet on it all the time, have only had it about a week and am still finding my way around it.

Maybe we need a thread for recomended iphone applications.

I've returned to say I think I'm pretty decided on the HTC but the iphone is still tempting me.. esp since I read you can get a shopping list app <swoon>

the blackberry is scrobbed off the list.

Thank you. I have them all separately, I just dream of one where they are all together...

Clemette - the iphone can do all those things. Use the calendar for birthdays (set to recur, then set up to 2 alerts to remind you of each one)

Do a search on Apps for free shopping list application (shopping list lite I think), I have a good To Do list - think I paid £0.59 max.

HTH

I gor mine this week (it is the 3g not the newest one) and I ADORE it. I upgraded it last night for free and although I haven't yet found the holy grail that is something that reminds me about everything I have coming up plus shopping list, plus to do list, plus birthdays all in one app, I am very much enjoying playing!

You can set up recurring appointments/birthdays etc on an iphone. I'm pretty sure that, if you enter the appointment via Outlook and set the reminder further in advance, eg 5 days, this will work when you sync with your iphone.

I have reminders 4-5 days ahead of the appointment on my iphone - so think this was how I set them up?

And I think iphones are for fun, but I can also organise my life with mine (and I've had pretty much every brand of PDA available over the last 14 years )

we are now a his 'n' hers iphone household as my dh just bought the 3gs.

they are for fun, not for organising your life

thanks everyone and Mascara for your research. DH is still convinced either way and is still looking at Palm smartphones. Will report back soon.

I'm on the train mumsnetting right now on iPhone <thumbs nose at blackberry>

HI LL, I've been doing some research and

Storm
There are quite a few scathing reviews about the Storm, though it looks like there might be a Storm II being released at some point this year (might be worth waiting for). A lot of the poor reviews seem to be around the Storms lack of WIFI though I fail to see why WIFI is so important - I must be missing something. More importantly there seems to be an issue with battery life and intermittent hanging. One site did imply it might be there was a faulty batch at the beginning of this year.

iPhone
Played with someones iPhone and whilst I quite liked it the calendar functionality is not up to what I need.. earliest reminder you can set is 2 days prior to the event which isn't enough lead time for birthdays etc & you can't edit the reminder, you have to enter the event then edit the reminder which (I assume) if you have the event recurring across months/years it will impact all of your reminders.. Didn't check whether you could set up recuurances, currently it's on the no list.

I'm now looking at another device that a colleague has - getting a demo this afternoon so will keep you posted...

Have you made a decision?