Friday, February 11, 2011
New Technology
Yesterday I went into the AT&T store and bought a new iphone. I did this even though my blackberry works just fine. That really goes against everything I believe in. (Waste not, want not, use it till it wears out) It's the way though now with new technology. My two year contract is up, so I qualify for a new phone. They had good deals on the iphone 3 too. I'll be starting a new job and I need to be able to acess information easily. My old palm wouldn't update anymore, so I was sucked in. I put it off too, because I hate the learning curve involved with any new technology. But I work with a great group of people and I know they will help me to learn what I need to. And my daughters should be able to help too. So I got an iphone 4 yesterday (the 3 did not have enough memory for my needed apps) I'm a bit awed by the thing. It can do alot of things. I just hope I can get it to do what I want it to. I hope my thought processes follow those of the apple engineers. Sometimes I feel like an old dog trying to learn new tricks.
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Good luck with it! I think you'll get the hang of it quickly enough. Lauren and I got iPod Touches for Christmas (from each other), and we love them. They're basically iPhones without the phone, which means they're tiny computers with somewhat limited capabilities, but anywhere we have wi-fi, we have these mini computers. You've got the same thing but without the limitations of needing wi-fi.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite apps are: Facebook, New York Times, Skype, Netflix, the Kindle app (there are lots of free books available), Scrabble, Words with Friends (which is a Scrabble knock-off), and QRank Trivia. That doesn't begin to exhaust the list of useful apps, but those are ones that I use most often. You can also get a level, a flashlight, Google Earth, the Weather Channel app, a wikipedia app, an alarm clock, a stopwatch... and all of this is free. I have yet to pay for an app.