iTried. iFailed. I'm now an owner of a shiny new iPhone. When the iPhone came out, I avoided the hype. How could so many people be excited over a phone? It's just a phone, right? After all, it just makes calls and we've been doing that for a hundred years now. Which just so happens about the same age of my old cell phone, so I figured it was time for an upgrade.
My requirements were short: I wanted a phone that makes calls (ideally from my house...my old phone only accomplished that about half the time), a GPS, the ability to read/send e-mail, and probably the strangest request...the ability to show pictures. Lots of phones I looked at were very capable of meeting my first three requests, but the choice became obvious when looking at the iPhone's large screen. I was very skeptical of the touch screen, but it's amazing! I was sold after 5 minutes of playing with the phone, I knew it was the one for me.
Either my expectations were low, or I'm impressed easily, but I'm in awe of this phone. Well, maybe I should say the "Apps" for this phone. The GPS feature is nice, but I already have a great GPS. I was hoping for the GPS feature to help out in situations where I didn't have my hand held GPS with me (I do get lost from time to time...don't tell!). This is almost ridiculous, what if I got lost, but also needed "pizza"? Well, here's a sample screen shot of just such an occasion.
Not only does it show all the pizza places around me, I can actually pick the one I want and get turn by turn directions or better yet their number (which only needs one click) to call them and ask for deliver! Now my fancy hand held GPS can't even come close to pulling that off.
My first real experience with an new "App" that I added to my phone was one called Shazam. I picked it because it was rated high and best of all it was free. Now I didn't try it the first night, but I made Becca try while we were traveling up north for Thanksgiving. The concept seemed too good to be true, your favorite new song comes on the radio, the DJ never says the title and goes immediately to a commercial after the song ends, the artist and title remain a mystery. This "App" promised by holding the phone up to the speaker for about ten seconds, it could tell the name and artist of the song. Bullsh*t! There's just no way, right? Wrong again. For the first test, I was playing something that I'd hardly consider popular and Shazam got it. Okay, that was a more modern song, lets try something early 80's, it got it. I've already used it once, snagging a new song that I had know clue who it was:
With this "App", there's no reason to even employ DJ's!
It's official, I'm an iDork. I can't help it though, the phone is so damn cool! I was only after a phone that could show off pictures, instead I got a phone that completely amazes me. Sure it's missing a few things, there's definitely things that could be better about it, but overall I think I have the phone that I've been missing for years. iHappy.
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