The iPhone 5

I am on vacation this week. So I finally had a chance to set up my new iPhone 5 phone. It has been a few years since I got my previous iPhone. That one was the iPhone 3GS. Although it was a few models behind the latest iPhone 5, it seemed to do the job fine. I got the new phone mainly because we pay a high monthly cell phone fee. Built into that fee is the ability to upgrade to a new phone every 2 years at a highly discounted rate. It was time to take advantage of the discount.

First I connected my old iPhone to the computer. The iTunes software automatically recognized it and started syncing the data. I saw my new apps fly by. I figured they must have been automatically transferred to my computer. Great. Next I tried to activate the new iPhone. That required some contact info from Momoko that I did not have. Luckily I was able to track down Momoko and get the secret info.

I rebooted the iPhone 5. Then I had to wait a while as they registered my service with the new phone. After a short wait, I could make calls with the new phone. I tested out Dragonvale, my favorite iPhone app. It seemed to be zippier with the new phone. Gave movement was much more responsive. Then I tried to launch my new favorite game Gizmonauts. But I could not find it. In fact, all of the new apps I recently installed were missing from the iPhone 5. But I synced it with my PC.

That's when it hit me. The darn iTunes must not have synced up the recent apps to my computer. Darn you Apple. Luckily I only download free apps for my phone. I only had to download Gizmonauts to my new iPhone 5. There were a bunch of other new apps that did not make it over to the new phone as well. I will have to deal with them later. Time to enjoy Gizmonauts on the new iPhone 5.