I hope that as you read this, you are not part of that school of thought wherein technology, according to you, has been a bane for today’s world more than it has created a world of convenience. While that can be a totally different discussion, after a decade of relying on my filofax (aka organizer), I have more than semi-shifted the organizer to my latest possession – Snitch to me and IPhone to the world! Why a Snitch? Because the moment you hold it, you do not want to let go of it! While it is only a phone that lets you do what it should and what you want it to do, this one is way off the mark. The moment I slide to unlock, it is a totally different world out there.
Seven E-mail messages…great, I scroll them and all are trash; not a problem, slide through and woof, deleted. Back to check Facebook [another planet of beings altogether!!!], and view current status of all near and dear ones…aah, there I see new pics of my nieces and nephew!! So what is the weather like in McLean? Around 80F they say and in Mumbai? Ohh its raining out there! How I miss the monsoons…Now, how about some music? Or news? Or simply, watch some videos on YouTube?
Indeed groundbreaking, it lets me do things I never thought would be possible and some things that I considered totally absurd. Things like tuning the musical instrument, browsing to get restaurant information and of course, load of other downloadable applications. Its fun to have facebook, LinkedIn and Aol Radio on the phone...and not to forget the fact that Tetris gets me totally hooked on to the phone so does SuDoku and Solitaire!
There is room for improvements too and not everything rosy, for instance, to do all of the above, the battery life gets exhausted pretty quickly. Also, being obsessed with bollywood ringtones in my previous phone, this one sadly does not let me do so! Overall, a truly cherishable gift from Ashit so that I stop nagging him when he's with his phone!
p.s. Did I mention that you can blog from IPhone? Well I just did..
p.p.s. Loads of other application available at this link: http://iphonewidgetlist.com/
Seven E-mail messages…great, I scroll them and all are trash; not a problem, slide through and woof, deleted. Back to check Facebook [another planet of beings altogether!!!], and view current status of all near and dear ones…aah, there I see new pics of my nieces and nephew!! So what is the weather like in McLean? Around 80F they say and in Mumbai? Ohh its raining out there! How I miss the monsoons…Now, how about some music? Or news? Or simply, watch some videos on YouTube?
Indeed groundbreaking, it lets me do things I never thought would be possible and some things that I considered totally absurd. Things like tuning the musical instrument, browsing to get restaurant information and of course, load of other downloadable applications. Its fun to have facebook, LinkedIn and Aol Radio on the phone...and not to forget the fact that Tetris gets me totally hooked on to the phone so does SuDoku and Solitaire!
There is room for improvements too and not everything rosy, for instance, to do all of the above, the battery life gets exhausted pretty quickly. Also, being obsessed with bollywood ringtones in my previous phone, this one sadly does not let me do so! Overall, a truly cherishable gift from Ashit so that I stop nagging him when he's with his phone!
p.s. Did I mention that you can blog from IPhone? Well I just did..
p.p.s. Loads of other application available at this link: http://iphonewidgetlist.com/
