iTunes never fails to amaze me:

Besides the infinite amount of error 3259, this “8.2MB of 7.3MB” progress bar shoots through the roof of my patience.

Nevertheless, I was able to play around Safari browser and Youtube during dinner. Those were fun and great pastime, I must say (I was watching “Hipster Olympics” showing the corner of Bedford Ave and North 6th Street, exactly when I was passing there, and that was quite a wonderful feeling). But then, I’d rather look for Windows Mobile alternatives of those softwares before I explode due to the incompetence of iTunes. Windows Media Player, in contrary, had never given me sync errors like those, and it would show me exactly which files are synced.

There are more detrimental flaws than nice details in the iPhone + iTunes combo that leaves me less and less love for it. My fantasy of showing off the phone to friends in Hong Kong is not worth the headaches of sync failures every day.

Four days left with this phone.