It’s been 6 month since I have gotten you, and I still love you as much as the first time I touched you. My iPhone 3G, I love you. In anticipation of your FREE software updates to iPhone OS 3.0 in 3 days time which will enable you to have 100+ new features (omg!), I shall dedicate this entire post to tell you why, unlike my previous mobile phones, I’m not bored of you after such a long time (long for me at least). After I have found you, I have changed from someone who changes the brand and model of his mobile phone frequently to someone who is loyal to a single brand. I still love you as much (if not more) after 6 months and will continue to love you until your younger and more powerful sister, the iPhone 3GS (super?) is out and my current contract ends (in October this year).Before I go on about how much I love you, I have to remind others that, to fully enjoy your awesomeness, one must have an unlimited 3G plan and know how to use iTunes. If you do not plan to have 3G or use iTunes, I think you would be better off using other phones.
Now, here are the top 5 reasons why I love you so much and will not get bored of you.
1) You are so sleek and stylish
You are so perfect in terms of looks that your designer didn’t even bother to change the appearance of your sister, the iPhone 3GS. She looks just as hot as you but she is cleverer, has a better memory and better eyesight. Even if I get bored with your looks, there are so many companies producing beautiful looking cases for you to wear. These cases also protect your sexy body from scratches and knocks. Do you like the case I bought for you on our 4 months anniversary??
2) You screen is so big and nice to touchYour 3.5 inch widescreen Multi-touch display is gorgeous and easy to touch and slide across. Your screen and clear and bright, displaying everything perfectly. Although your screen’s resolution is not as high as some others, it is sufficient to display and word, image and video rather accurately without straining my eyes. Your multi-touch display is a class above the rest. While I did have problems with my previous touch screens and wished I had a keypad, my perception of a touch screen phone changed entirely because of you. Your interface is tailor made for a touch screen device. It is so easy to navigate around the menus and select an application. The Multi-touch ability adds another dimension to using those apps. For example I can enlarge a picture or the screen of my Safari browser with 2 fingers and play games with much ease, treating your screen as a controller, like moving around in a racing game with my left thumb and accelerating or braking with my left. I can also use your accelerometer for these apps. I do not miss the keypad and find it very difficult to use other touch screen phones now.
3) You are stable and easy to handle
Unlike my previous windows mobile phone which has constant mood swings and hangs up on me every now and then, you are much more stable. After using you for 6 months, you have only failed me twice, which is much less than the windows mobile phone. Your physical buttons although limited, are sufficient and very useful, it is all the physical buttons I need. The big button in front not only allows me to exit your apps, it can also bring me to your home screen, pressing it 2 times quickly also allows me to bring up the iPod function. The top button makes you sleep or wake you up, the side buttons allows me to control your volume and the small switch beside the volume control buttons lets me mute you instantly. The rest can be done on your touch screen.
4) You are not only a phone
You are not only a phone, you are an iPod Touch as well! Whatever the iPod Touch can do you can do it too! Music, videos, podcasts can all be played, and all albums are categorized nicely and can be displayed on your beautiful cover flow just be tilting your body. Videos are clearly displayed on your huge 3.5 inch screen; it’s so big that I can see the subtitles of my Japanese shows so clearly! Because of you, I can really enjoy watching my favourite shows wherever I want. The podcasts I subscribed for free - MrBrown Show, VH1 Best Week (video) and Dilbert Animated Cartoon (video) – are all updated automatically when new episodes are available on iTunes and synched to you whenever I charge you using my computer. There are thousands of other podcasts I can subscribe to if I have the time listen or view them. Everything is just so simple, so idiot proof.
Recently, you have also become quite a game machine, with big companies making games for you, not to mention the thousands of other games already available. Your graphics are just as good as the DS and the games coming out are slowly approaching the quality of actual portable game consoles. Need for Speed Uncover, Sims 3, Dance Dance Revolution, Metal Gear Solid, Cooking Mama and Time Crisis are some of the more famous titles available for you and more to come in the future. With your 3.0 software upgrade, I can play a multiplayer game with my other friends who have clones of you. Imagine playing Doom in class!
Now instead of bringing so many devices, I just bring you along. You satisfy my every need while I’m outside. Your camera has room for improvement though, luckily your sister iPhone 3GS will fix that.5) Apps!
Last and most importantly, the thing that really sets you apart from the rest of the competition, your Apps!! All 50,000 plus of them!! Your nearest competitor in terms of the amount of apps is mobile phones on the Android platform which only have around 5,000 apps. I like this sentence I got from a site that provided live updates (macrumours.com) of the recent WWDC 2009 keynote
“50,000 apps on iPhone, 4,900 for Android, 1,088 for Nokia (total), Blackberry (1,030), Palm (18). He makes a joke about not being able to see the last company name (Palm)”Lol, very insulting indeed. I sure you felt good then my iPhone.
Every time I get bored with you, I just change the apps inside you and you become a new phone, that’s the main reason why I think I can never get enough of you. I can change your apps anywhere I am because I do not have to use my computer to download them, with a single touch on your screen, I am brought to your App Store and from there I can choose which of the 50k apps I want to download. New apps (free and paid) just keep coming out for you. With over 40 million iPhone and iPod Touch users around I can see why app developers are rushing to come up with the next killer app. There are so many different kinds spread across your 20 categories of apps out there, one can never be bored. Educational, entertainment, gaming, lifestyle, news etc etc etc you have it all. Yes, even apps with sexy girls!!I will blog about the apps I have used in the future.
To show my love for you, I shall dedicate an entire section of my blog to you. From now on, there will be an iPhone section besides the entertainment, news and articles, random videos and my bo liao life section.
Next iPhone post (This week) – my experience with OS 3.0
iPhone I Heart You
P.S 1: I’m no Apple fanboy. In fact, the iPhone is actually my first and only Apple product! The iPhone has really showed me how awesome apple products are though. I’m deciding whether to switch to a Mac in the future hmmmm
P.S 2: OMFG! I don’t know how in the world it’s possible, but I just found out today that I am one of the top ten finalists in the Omy Singapore Blog Awards under the “Best Individual Blog” category ….. More about that in my next post. Got to wipe the tears off my eyes. Hope you can vote for me if you are reading this post though =) You can vote at http://sgblogawards.omy.sg/category - Go to "Best Individual Blog" and click on the small box with the vote sign. Mine is the stickman with blue background "wusama". =)
(Images Taken From: My digital camera, my iPhone, Shuffle gazine, techlivez.com, Power Support, TECHFRESH.NET, IAPPS.sg)