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So, two months into my iPhone life, Apple decided to lower the price. A lot of people were upset that they were charged an extra $200 just for wanting one earlier, but people who are early adopters of technology. If you want to make people cry, show them how far the prices of their big LCD or plasma television has dropped since they lost bought it.
Anyway, I still enjoy my iPhone and their are lots of ways to customize it these days. I love the facebook app, and there is a mobile Movable Type plug-in that should make it easier for me to blog when things pop in my head. You can add custom ringtones, etc. There is so much potential, and I an interested in seeing what is going to be coming up in the future.
When you are paying somebody to wait in line for you, they need to be somebody who doesn't have anything better to do and won't charge you an arm and a leg. Obviously, I called B-side, who isn't exactly doing nothing because he is constantly working on things now that he is doing the full-time screenwriter thing, but he actually prefers to work into the wee hours. I would ask him to wait a couple of hours in the afternoon, meaning it wouldn't harm his schedule.
So, B-side waited in line for a couple of hours for me, and I took over at around 5:30. The people in line around me were really nice and I had my two iPhones (I bought one for another friend who also didn't want to wait in line) in hand before 7PM.
The phone has been everything that I wanted. My only problems are that it doesn't do MMS, meaning I can't send pictures I take on the phone via text message. It also can't send text messages to multiple people, which is crazy. Finally, I can't wait until somebody hacks the thing so I can customize the ring tones and other alerts, etc.
Other than those minor quibbles, the phone rocks, and people are constantly asking to touch it. Whenever I pull it out, people want to look and touch. The battery life is good, especially if you turn off WiFi, and using it just as an iPod (in Airplane mode with all data service turned off) can go on forever. Eventually, the allure will wear off and nobody will be impressed at how I wasted that much money on a cell phone, but I love it so I don't care. I have never been one to buy a new computer, laptop, iPod or cell phone just because a slightly newer one came out, but I am not sure if I can resist with this one.
So, I really love my Blackberry Pearl. I have never been one of those "put every piece of technology you own on a belt holster" type of person, so it's nice that I can get all of those crackberry features all while being able to fit it into my pocket. I wish it took video and had GPS, but I'll live.
One thing I haven't really become accustomed to is all of the little keys. I have previously used slider and flip phones, so locking the keypad has never been a problem. Unfortunately, I haven't really made it a habit of locking my Pearl before I put it in my pocket, and therefore I have at least a couple of pocketdials a day. People who would normally be interested in a phone call from me (or at least my ego hopes that they are interested) are instead greeted with the strange sounds of whatever is going on around me, filtered through my pocket.
For some reason, whenever I pocketdial, my phone tends to pick my entries that start with K. My friends Kat and Katie have been very patient with me, but I think it will be a long time before they respond to any of my phone calls because I usually call them a couple of times a week for no reason at all. I would like to say it is through no fault of my own, but really it's all because I am lazy.
To all my friends, and Kat and Katie in particular, I promise to at least think about locking my keypad more often than I have been doing. Most likely nothing will change until I get my iPhone, but I am going to give it a try!
