Sooo attached.

I am beginning to understand why people are so attached to their iPhones – they’re so capable.

It’s like carrying around a computer, phone, camera, music player, address book and note pad all in one little package.

And, it’s making me organized.

No longer do I have sticky-notes all over the place; the phone carries all my jotted notes.   It also keeps pictures of the business cards that I want for reference.  I can text, email, respond directly to web pages and surf the www.

I’ve loaded Shazam! so no music is out of reach, that tune you just heard?  Shazam! it and the artist, album and audio clip ‘pop-up’. 

My phone can answer almost any question put to it…

I had wanted an iPad, but the iPhone is way more useful!

Saved by the iPhone

We were downtown; a place I never go as I hate, hate, hate the tight roads, the one way’s, the volume of cars, people cutting across the roads and all that jazz. 

We were also late, due to an accident on the highway, one of 3 that we needed to take to get downtown.

We were lost.

I touched the map icon on the iPhone; after connecting, it located us and zeroed in – “go straight, take the 3rd right turn, go over the bridge and make a right.”  Time from turn on to located – less than 1 minute.

The Car-pilot followed my verbal instructions and we arrived for the Brunch only 10 minutes late.

And relaxed, not stressed about driving in circles.

The Car-pilot asked how I was liking the new phone, my comment was ‘it’s sooo easy!’

Good Lord! I’m hooked!

Car-man took me out for dinner. 

During that ‘together’ time, I played with my phone for all but the eating portion. 

I promptly read every e-mail the moment my phone chimed to say something had arrived.

I dazzled him with displays of Shazam!

I played the local doppler radar (weather radar) to prove it was sunny.

I checked the table for level.  It wasn’t.

I arranged a Brunch Date for Saturday and checked the menu’s of the downtown eateries, on their websites.

He threatened to get a bumper sticker for my car that reads “you can have my iPhone when you can pry it out of my cold, dead hands”

iPhone or iPad?

I went down this route a few months ago and decided iPhone, as it gave me more functionality.

The iPad is beautiful, easy to use, just touch the icon and you’re away.

But, it doesn’t make calls. And, it’s too large to fit in my purse (I carry a TINY purse, not one of those rolling suitcases that some women lug around).

So, after carefully weighing the pros and cons, I settled on the iPhone. It arrived just a day ago and I am very happy with it.

Learning how to use the unit is easy, it just seems to do what I need without complicated keystrokes. Just now, I’ve finished populating my phone numbers from my old phone into the iPhone and the difference in User Interfaces is like chiseling numbers on a rock versus pen and paper.

My old phone drove me nuts trying to do something as simple as composing a text message and sending it; should a phone call come in at any point in that process, I lost everything. It drove me nuts.

Now, I’m driving my family nuts. “Shh, I’m busy adding phone numbers.” “Wait a second, I’m browsing Apps.” “You GOTTA see this!”

Car-man is sooo patient. The Dogs are NOT, but that’s what bacon’s for, and the word ‘squirrel!’.

And, please be patient for one more day….