It had just occurred to me (seconds ago) that I had signed up for something a long while ago and had totally forgotten about it. At the time I had signed up for “IPXSync”… a service that was supposed to “automagically” sync my exchange calendar and e-mail to my iphone. I signed up to be a beta tester via their linkage from the homepage. It was even free! I was and still would be willing to pay for a service that could do this for me so I could ditch my Motorola Q. Nothing against the motorola, it’s just… not an iphone.

Anyway, a part of me is a) sad that this service never actually came to fruition but then 2) left wondering what the hell happened to my e-mail and contact info I so foolishly gave away? Hopefully this was just some sort of iphone service pilot project that was trying to gauge an interest the market and or they realized how difficult their charge was to actually be. Either way I’d be fine with that. The looming fear is that I openly submitted my info in a blind iphone-crazed frenzy. This makes me sad. On the inside.

So apparently apple’s released the latest firmware update for the iphone. Looking at the list of updates at iphone hacks I think it’s pretty funny that the majority of the new functionality has been around for quite some time via alternate methods available to jailbreaked iphones and 3rd party native iphone apps. Homepage scrolling, GPS via celltower triangulation, sending sms messages to multiple recipients and many more. I guess it’s cool n all that apple’s trying to catch up but i’d be blown away with simply being able to view flash on my iphone, or maybe better yet full support for microsoft exchange with non-imap dependant capability AND synchronization with outlook calendar and the iphones native calendar. I guess we’ll have to see what else is in store in the coming months.