So, the other day my Sony-Ericsson T610 took a trip through the washing machine. It didn't survive. Way back when I was using the first-gen T-Mobile Sidekick and was looking to upgrade to a phone that would properly sync with Mac OS X and would offer support as an external modem (preferably via Bluetooth), I originally found myself drooling over the Nokia 3650. It was a strange looking beast, but it had an OS that was open for development, offered Bluetooth, and was already supported by iSync. However, it was also a whole lot more expensive than the less-overall-capable-but-would-still-fit-the-bill T610. So I went that route. Now, T-Mobile has discontinued the T610 and I found myself looking over their many ugly, lackluster phones when what should I stumble across but the 3650. Heaven! And inexpensive after a mail-in rebate. So now I've spent the evening poring over the user's guide and various online fora getting the PowerBook set up to talk to it and use it as a modem.

I also recalled (joy! rapture!) that Nokia had released Python for the Series 60 phones, and went straight away to get it. Installed it easily, and now I have a Python prompt on my phone! Better still, they provide APIs for talking not only to the phone's hardware, but many of the built-in apps, with GUI wrappers for writing your own Symbian apps.

Chris Double has also ported Io to the Series 60 phones, but he reports crashes with my model phone, so that will have to wait.

I was also lucky enough to pick up iLife '05 and iWork '05, but will need to find time (and space!) to install them.