When it came time, after jailbreaking, to tell the new Neocell (iPhone 3GS 32GB) to “restore” data from the old Neocell (2G iPhone 16 GB), I had no idea how amazing the backup system from Apple was.

So here’s the deal, I had a backup from a first generation iPhone transfer over to a third generation iPhone. That’s a pretty big leap there. I figured it would try to reinstall apps (that are installed in iTunes) and all the content and settings of the apps would be blank. Nope… to my surprise, all the settings and files remained intact. Balance, for instance, contained all my balance data. Stanza not only still contained all my eBooks, it was still on the page of the eBook I was reading. The settings of all my gmail accounts stayed in there… it even brought over the hack I did to change the carrier name to “Neocell”.

I got a lotta’ respect for Apple… I don’t like their authorization (Nazi-like) system they got goin’ on, but the system of backuping up and transfering is great. Far better than anything Pocket PCs could have had.

Peace, J