iPhone Luv
Okay, so I've got this iPhone. The other day I realised that I had actually fallen into the trap, and I would be lost without it. Sad, really.
I check TweetDeck, Facebook, GMail and iReddit every day. Without them I think I may well go nuts on withdrawal. But that's not all - there are games! Lots and lots of loverly games. Most of them cost money, and for things like Bejewelled I don't really mind that. My current favourite game is called DoodleJump, and it's a very silly mindless piece of fluff that involves getting your animated character to bounce off various kinds of platforms and go as high as possible. It's fun. But that's not all.
It connects with both my mail and my calendar on Google. I can post to LiveJournal from it. I can use Maps to see where I'm going. I can check the news and weather. I can convert units from metric to imperial and check the current currency exchange rates. I can read eBooks from Project Gutenberg and Feedbooks. It holds my entire music collection and automatically keeps my podcasts up to date - it even remembers where I am in one podcast if I decide to stop it and listen to another. It has a complete web browser integral so that I can look up anything, any time, anywhere I have a 3G connection. I can reference the Yellow Pages, Wikipedia, the Holy Bible and the Australian Constitution, whenever I want and wherever I want. I even have a polyhedral dice roller! How cool is that!?
As a phone, it's okay. It's not the best mobile phone, but it works, and it's got one or two nice features - like pausing the podcast when there's an incoming call, and resuming it automatically when the call ends. Call quality is... well, it's okay. Good enough for most purposes. It has a voice recorder, and I wish I'd known that when I went to TAM, because it's much better quality than the dictaphone device I did all my podcast interviews on.
But one of the best things, one of the things that I appreciate the most, is that is shows me SMS messages in a conversation format. So I can see what I'm replying to, and what someone who has just sent me a message is replying to. It shows the full history of SMS messages with this particular contact, until I decide to clear it. Now, I'm not a huge txt msger, but I do use it occasionally, and one of the things that annoyed me about previous non-smart phones is that I'd sometimes get a msg from someone, and I couldn't remember what it was they were replying to. My iPhone shows me exactly what I want to see.
And yes, I know that there are other devices available that can do all of this. I chose an iPhone, mostly because I was already using iTunes. It's what I decided to invest in, and although I acknowledge that it's definitely not the perfect device, it is pretty good from my point of view. It works, and it works well for what I want it to do. It's one of the better investments I've made recently, and I'm very pleased with it.
I check TweetDeck, Facebook, GMail and iReddit every day. Without them I think I may well go nuts on withdrawal. But that's not all - there are games! Lots and lots of loverly games. Most of them cost money, and for things like Bejewelled I don't really mind that. My current favourite game is called DoodleJump, and it's a very silly mindless piece of fluff that involves getting your animated character to bounce off various kinds of platforms and go as high as possible. It's fun. But that's not all.
It connects with both my mail and my calendar on Google. I can post to LiveJournal from it. I can use Maps to see where I'm going. I can check the news and weather. I can convert units from metric to imperial and check the current currency exchange rates. I can read eBooks from Project Gutenberg and Feedbooks. It holds my entire music collection and automatically keeps my podcasts up to date - it even remembers where I am in one podcast if I decide to stop it and listen to another. It has a complete web browser integral so that I can look up anything, any time, anywhere I have a 3G connection. I can reference the Yellow Pages, Wikipedia, the Holy Bible and the Australian Constitution, whenever I want and wherever I want. I even have a polyhedral dice roller! How cool is that!?
As a phone, it's okay. It's not the best mobile phone, but it works, and it's got one or two nice features - like pausing the podcast when there's an incoming call, and resuming it automatically when the call ends. Call quality is... well, it's okay. Good enough for most purposes. It has a voice recorder, and I wish I'd known that when I went to TAM, because it's much better quality than the dictaphone device I did all my podcast interviews on.
But one of the best things, one of the things that I appreciate the most, is that is shows me SMS messages in a conversation format. So I can see what I'm replying to, and what someone who has just sent me a message is replying to. It shows the full history of SMS messages with this particular contact, until I decide to clear it. Now, I'm not a huge txt msger, but I do use it occasionally, and one of the things that annoyed me about previous non-smart phones is that I'd sometimes get a msg from someone, and I couldn't remember what it was they were replying to. My iPhone shows me exactly what I want to see.
And yes, I know that there are other devices available that can do all of this. I chose an iPhone, mostly because I was already using iTunes. It's what I decided to invest in, and although I acknowledge that it's definitely not the perfect device, it is pretty good from my point of view. It works, and it works well for what I want it to do. It's one of the better investments I've made recently, and I'm very pleased with it.