I have an iPhone. It is a 2nd hand 16GB 3G iPhone. It is white. For those of you who know me, this comes as no shock to you. For those of you who don’t know me, I have an illness - gadgetorhea. It’s defined by the need to have every new gadget that comes onto the market.
I stayed out of the iPhone fray for the first what… two years? One year? 18 months? Something like that… because the iPhone would not successfully connect to our organization’s enterprise infrastructure (geek for “it doesn’t work with our e-mail system”). Now, the iPhone, surprisingly, works better with our e-mail system than my old BlackBerry did.
I got the phone for a substantial discount from a friend who gave it up because he couldn’t stand the fact that the phone has no keyboard. In essence, you type on the glass that is the screen. I find that I can type just fine on that. Also, my problem with the thinness of the device seems to have gone away since the iPhone is a good deal thicker than the iPod Touch I was using as a test model.
Having the iPhone also reduces my dependence on multiple electronic devices in order to listen to my iTunes podcasts of various NPR shows - Jazz Profiles, The Diane Rehm Show, Talk of the Nation, and Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me. It was getting a bit tiresome juggling between the iPod Touch to change the program and my BlackBerry to read my e-mail, and back to the Touch to play games, and back to the BlackBerry to jot out another e-mail that had just popped into my brain.
I like the iPhone just fine, thankyouverymuch.
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