The iPhone is misunderstood. I can never think of the iPhone as a phone. It is a mobile computing tablet which can also make phone calls. There is a distinction there which gets lost by the way its being marketed and the way that is being perceived. If you don’t plan to use internet or email and are not at all a computer user, do not purchase it. The iPhone is not a phone.
Why I bought an iPhone.
Battery Life
I bought the iPhone cause I wanted a mobile computer which had a great screen, smooth performance, and above all had to have a marathon battery life. After using and testing ultra-portable and micro laptops one things was common within all of them. Very poor battery life. Two hours was the average though you could squeeze some more minutes if you did this and that.
Practicality
Aside from battery life practicality had a great deal of weight in the decision making. I want it to fit in my pocket because I am not the type who likes to carry around a backpack everywhere I go. Its not very socially acceptable to pull out your laptop at every restaurant to do some web searching, check email, and view some video podcasts. Even if it were the annoyance of booting up a Vista or any other operating system to do a quick internet search or email check is comparable to watching paint dry. The iPhone for that most part has instant On.
Connectivity
Laptops need a wifi hotspot to surf the web. If there were numerous places that offered free wifi, maybe there would have been an argument for the laptop. The operative word there is free. That, is still very rare, but even if you found one, the iPhone can connect to it too and give you the broadband surfing with it. The iPhone allows you to not worry about connectivity. Go to whatever restaurant you like, heck go to the park and surf the internet, check your email, and see last night’s NBC news on podcast.
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