I resisted as long as I could. I kept telling myself that since I was home most of the time I had very little need for a smart phone. My husband has had an iPhone for over a year now, but I kept resisting, content with having 5 Macs and 4 iPods.
What finally did me in was a recent trip back east to visit my kids and my grandson. My daughter was having a fatal problem with her existing cell phone, it would only hold a charge for a few minutes. She asked me if I would go with her to the AT&T store so that she could look at a new phone. The conversation turned to the fact that my husband (her third Dad) had an iPhone and she wondered how much it was costing him per month.
My husband was back in California, so I typed out a text message asking him about how much his iPhone was costing. When I hit send I discovered that my cheap T-Mobile prepaid phone had no service at my daughter’s house, so we just went to AT&T and she got a 3G leftover iPhone for under $100. This left me still not having an iPhone while my über-geek programmer husband had one and my Registered Nurse daughter had one.
Last Friday I phoned my local AT&T store and they said they had no 3GS iPhones in stock, but I could come in and order one. The helpful clerk asked which model I would choose if I could have any of them at all, and I said “Well, I’d love to have a 32GB 3GS in white, if you had one.” So he went into the back room and a few minutes later came out with a white 32GB iPhone 3GS, which I bought fast before anybody else saw it.
Gosh, what an absolutely wonderful toy! I’ve been tracking my trips to the store using GPSed and listening to local police radio with Police Scanner. I guess I have about 90 Apps total on my iPhone now, plus a gazillion songs from my iTunes library.
I’ve added a new Apps page to our Apple downloads pages maintained here at Macs Are Great. I really ♥ my new iPhone.
[tags] 32GB iPhone, iPhone 3GS, GPSed, Police Scanner, Apple downloads, iPhone apps[/tags]
As I’m typing this I’m on an American Airlines flight from DFW to Palm Springs using their new GoGo Inflight Internet service. For only $5.95 I am getting quite fast Internet access, and they do not seem to be blocking any ports. I was able to use SSH to connect to a secure site I manage, and the throughput is really fast.
