Thanks to Clove for loaning the Touch Pro, which is currently available for £504.08.

I have two phones in my life, a Nokia E71 and a 2G Apple iPhone, and they are meant to serve separate purposes. The E71 is used for email on the go, my calendar, financial monitoring, contacts and a few other ‘serious’ activities. My iPhone is used for my work SIM and was not supposed to be for anything else apart from listening to music.

Within a week or so of using both full-time, the iPhone is starting to quickly encroach on territory that my E71 should be owning. eBooks display so much better on the iPhone and the eReader software has now become stable enough to offer a simple and rich eReading experience whenever I need it. The screen brightness allows for complete flexibility to read in all weather conditions and the size does help to give more of a real book experience than most other devices can offer.

Video playback on the iPhone is also one its star features and watching a full length movie on another phone feels silly once you have experienced iPhone movile playback. Music is obviously catered for already and so none of the above is that much of a revelation.

What is surprising is that SplashMoney actually feels good on the iPhone now and offers a clear view of what’s happening with some half decent reporting included. I have been testing it alongside Money Manager for Symbian and there is a clear gap between the two.

I then a look at calendaring (is that really a word?) and I’m even starting to like the built in iPhone calendar. The more I use the software the more I can appreciate the simplistic interface of the iPhone.

At is stands the E71 still wins on the web front (3G, HSDPA etc.), for email and for many other activities, but I am learning that not having one phone that does it all is not the end of the world. These two phones compliment each other, with each covering the other’s fallibilities very well indeed.

UPDATE: The more I use the iPhone, the slower it gets. I have 10 third party applications installed and it crawls to a halt after a few applications have been opened and close. Ignore everything I wrote above:)

2LaunchMe has just been updated with the following changes and is also discounted by 33% currently-

- Support for MyKbd Macros:
Define your macro in MyKbd and assign it to a lower case letter. In 2LaunchMe
use the appropriate MyKbdMacro-Slot and assign it.
- Use the green key on your phone to dial any number from anywhere on the screen:
Place the insertion point into the field into the number you want to dial, press
the green button. If the dial dialog doesn't open or comes up with the wrong
number, put the number into the clipboard (mark it, select copy) and press the
green button
- Added quality (as number) next to operator in online display

Application launcher which allows to launch apps, prefs panels and DAs using the Treo keyboard. It also has an online traffic counter included.

Mobile ad agency, Crisp Wireless has published a quarterly overview of mobile internet traffic and reports that mobile web usage grew significantly with a 29.4% increase from 1Q08 to 2Q08.

According to the 2Q08 CWI, the following trends have emerged:

Local news is viewed mostly in the morning, while national news is viewed continuously throughout day.

Sports fans check scores and highlights during their favorite games, with highest traffic on evenings and weekends.

Women visit the mobile web late at night and early in the week mirroring their online habits; and young girls are browsing late night, especially on the weekend.

Entertainment and online services are accessed most in the evenings, primarily on the weekends as visitors are making their weekend plans.

The latest report also shows that the percentage of traffic driven from carrier decks is falling, while mobile search driven traffic continues to rise. According to the report, search engines are driving 9.45% of overall traffic in 2Q 08 - a 25.8% increase - versus 7.51% of overall traffic in1Q08. Google continues to dominate mobile search engine traffic, driving 82% of mobile search... More at cellular-news.