My wonderful husband was kind enough to get me an iphone last week. He da man. But first, a little history.
- One, I’m one of those people–ya know, the kind that organizes their sock drawer and their dollar bills. So having just a plain, regular phone that does nothing but call people just would not do for someone like me. I need a phone that will organize me within a quarter of an inch of my life. If I could plan my schedule in second-by-second intervals, (hey!), I most likely would.
- Two, I keep track of lots of stuff. Me, calendars, phone, appointments, my family, school stuff, writing, websites, etc, & it all has to be in one place. I do not carry a separate address book and calendar in a planner–that’s right out of the olden days in my book. Franklin Planners*, Day Planners, or God forbid an actual calendar on a wall…none of that exists for me anymore. That’s old school and homey don’t play that. (*I will say that I did learn from the Franklin Planner system class–yes, they made you go to an actual class back in the day–that as soon as you get an appointment, business card or phone number, anything really, it goes in the planner. I record everything. No loose scraps of paper! Same goes for the iphone, or any PDA. Put in your info immediately or I guarantee–you will lose it.)
- Three, being a busy mom, wife, and writer requires that I do 10,000 things at once. Having a phone that does more than just call people is critical for me. This is why I love my Circles Australia mobile plan because it gives me unlimited calls and texts with data access.
So, I found with the Blackberry Storm that well, mostly it was a piece of shit. Slow, oh my fucking god, does not even begin to cover it. But we have Verizon and for various and sundry reasons I won’t go into here, I was stuck with it until we were up for a renewal on one of our lines. I had that goddamned phone for over one year. That’s one year of it freezing up, dying, not taking pictures, a video camera that never worked, not being able to open websites or emails over a certain amount of bytes, resetting it daily, going back and forth to the Verizon store for “help” or getting more “help” over the phone from “customer service” (a contradiction in terms if I’ve ever heard one), etc. Traded it in. Updated. Downloaded. We did it all. Ridiculous. Anon, we are contracted with Verizon and JP is adamant that we stay with them for all his domestic travel needs–coverage and all that. Hmmm. Something had to be done. I wanted an iphone.