iPhone

I've had the new iPhone 3gs for a month. It's brilliant. For the last year I've had an iPod touch and use it as a PDA. Until last year I'd been using a succession of Palms, starting with the Palm Proffesional in 1997.

I've waited to get an iPhone because most of the plans don't suit my needs-- I want mobile Internet; phone and text aren't really that relevant. 3 came out with a scheme that lets me keep my existing 18 plan, pay $25 a month over two years for the iPhone and gives me 1gb a month of data-- more than plenty!

I'm loving it. Google reader on the bus, Google maps in the car, Wikipedia wherever I am. Twitter, for idle moments.

I work part time (parenting the other part) so I even check my email and deal with queries in idle moments at home via the wifi-- much less distracting from my day plan than sitting down at the computer for a couple of minutes.

I was worried about the keyboard but it works out to be really good, much quicker and more accurate than graffiti was for me, and I was good with graffiti. I'm not really accurate while typing, but the auto correction takes care of it.

Date created: 2009-08-24