New geeky toy!
It’s here! My new [Siemens S55](http://www.my-siemens.com/s55/) mobile phone. Well, it’s used and a couple of years old, but compared to the [piece of crap](http://www.gsmarena.com/philips_fisio_120-303.php) I was using before, this is a sensational little piece of technology. 
Click for larger-than-life version. It’s got everything I need: Bluetooth, Java, colour screen, silly ringtones, a speakerphone, and it works with iSync. It doesn’t have a frikkin’ camera. It doesn’t have a frikkin MP3 player. I have those things already, thanks.
It’s also keeping me Nokia-free. I’ve never owned a Nokia – no particular reason, nothing they released has ever really appealed to me (and some of their current stuff is truly bizarre – but I digress. Thus the parenthesis). I’ve owned two Sonys (not Sony-Ericsson, but old Sony Zuma phones), one Motorola and the above-mentioned Philips (I’m torn between which one was the worst – the Moto or the Philips. Suffice it to say they were both really bad). And now a Siemens. Part of the appeal is the slightly naughty company name, I must admit.
So. Now I’ve really seen the power that is"Apple’s iSync.“:http://www.apple.com/isync/ Holy crap. Here’s how easy it was to set up syncing with everything on my iBook to the phone:
# Plug in USB Bluetooth adaptor (driver install not needed).
# From the menu that appeared automatically, I selected “Set up Bluetooth device”. Two minutes later, the iBook and the phone (“Jurgen’s siemen”) were happy in each other’s company.
# In iSync, I added a device. iSync looked around and found my phone (complete with its proper icon!).
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You click, I make big. Then I clicked “Sync”. A few minutes later, the address book from the phone was on the computer, and vice versa. My calendar events were on the phone, and everything was synced to my mac.com account for remote Internet access. Even the iPod got into the action (but this is nothing new).
I’m so over the frikkin moon about this, and I haven’t even got to the goofy ringtones yet.