Let me show you how it works, then I’ll explain how to make a custom icon for those bookmarks too. The latest update to the phone, 1.1.3, added a very important new feature to the phone system, one that finally gives you the ability to truly customize and tweak the phone’s base screen for your personal tastes and requirements: Home Screen Bookmarks. I can recall at least five updates since the phone was released, updates that generally improved stability and functionality, but also added new features and even entirely new applications (in this case I’m thinking of access to the iTunes Store, which just *poof* appeared one day).
The Apple iPhone represents a significant step in the evolution of these phone systems, however, because, like the iPod itself, Apple continually tweaks and tunes the operating system with updates. A year ago I had just bought a Blackberry Pearl and was finding it a wonderful evolutionary step from the Motorola RAZR which, upon reflection, was all about the form factor and definitely not about the phone capabilities (especially with the crippled Verizon RAZR operating system). I’ve had a variety of different cellphones in the last few years as the technology underlying the cellular network has evolved from being about phone calls to offering up a wide variety of services, many of which have a small but growing price tag associated.