One of the great things about modern gadgets and modern applications is that you can modify and tweak its settings to your hearts desire. The theme, the GUI layout , the feature order, custom installations the list is endless. It’s exciting too, that once you know your system well you can tailor it to your exact needs and specification and have a whale of a time. The iPhone is no exception, curtsey of cydia and jailbreaking my iPhone i think has spent less time in it’s shipped GUI theme than i spent in the “ladies shop” that i mentioned in my earlier post.

I love customisation, i love having something that i can leave my mark on and know that when i come back to it it will still be the way i left it. The iPhone has been great in that front albeit through some less than legal wrangles. But today i decided to upgrade my iPhone firmware and to cut a long story short, the result is that a lot of your customisation made to the layout of your apps, the amount of apps on each row, the icons used for each app etc is all changed back to their vanilla state. One of the reasons i have held off for so long on going beyond iPhone OS 3.0 was because id didnt want to lose all my lovely customisations.

But in the end , this morning my curiosity got the better of me and i decided to go for it. And i made a starling discovery, i really like the vanilla look of the iPhone! This may seem a rather odd thing to say, but i havent seen a vanilla looking iPhone in months and months and i had quite literally forgot how well designed he look of it all actually is. It is a testament to apples designers that with all the tweaks and mods available to me i still have come to love the iPhone vanilla look more than any other. It’s been quite a pleasing experience (not quite in the realm of one’s first kiss or a first car but you get the gist)

Now all i have to do is wait for my iPhone to restore all my apps and away i go again.

-Plesenty surprised. the Geek