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Some­thing that seems to be a regres­sion on the iPhone rel­a­tive to all pre­vi­ous iPods is that song titles get trun­cated. Even in the orig­i­nal iPod the Now Play­ing screen would scroll the cur­rent song title so that you could read it all when it didn’t fit on screen. Later model iPods also scrolled text that was wider than the screen when brows­ing menus. It seems the iPhone 3G does nei­ther of these.
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The first email I sent from my iPhone was:

Hello from my new 16Gb white iPhone. I was 5th in line.

Unbe­knownst to me at that time, my phone had help­fully attached the default sig­na­ture of, “Sent from my iPhone”, at the end of the email. Later that day, in a reply to what may have been my third ever email from the phone a friend said:

> Sent from my iPhone

thats going to get annoy­ing soon.. heheh

Not one to wish to annoy people and seeing where he was coming from I removed the signature.

A couple of weeks later as I was typing out a reply to a dif­fer­ent friend on my trip to work on the tram, the desire for the sig­na­ture returned. The reason being includ­ing the sig­na­ture tells the recip­i­ent that the mes­sage came from a small hand­held device, whilst I was on the go. This may help explain why the reply is terse and why there may be typos or par­tic­u­larly in the iPhones case, whole word sub­sti­tu­tions. The phone is gen­er­ally pretty good at auto-​correction but if you’re typing away furi­ously its easy for mis­takes to go unno­ticed. So, with a gen­uine desire to have a sig­na­ture that wasn’t about big-​noting the fact I owned an iPhone, I explained the sit­u­a­tion to my friends and asked what exactly was it that they dis­liked about it and how could it be made better and/or less intru­sive.
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