Bye bye Blackberry, Hello iPhone
This week, something monumental happened. A pig flied, hell froze over, and the meaning of life was discovered. All because I have officially become an owner of an iPhone.
If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I was part of the Blackberry smartphone camp. You also know that I also was pretty disgusted with the buzz surrounding iPhone [iPhonia=barf]. Even when my Pearl failed me, we still were buds for the most part. For my new job (which is based around social media) the new iPhone is required. Ultimately, I had to jump my beloved Blackberry’s ship.
When I first had my Pearl, I had a data plan, but soon discontinued that as I felt like I was constantly plugged in. With the iPhone, being accessible is the main point. I’ve always been wary of this and admit that in my personal time I like having a life outside of technology. Perhaps I was burned by the Blackberry; it was pretty much all work and no play with a constant flow of emails. I’ve discovered that this is different with the iPhone. Sure, I knew there was a culture surrounding the gadgetphiles darling but I didn’t know that with the iPhone comes a balance; there are work functions but there are also entertaining apps.
I am still trying to understand what apps are useful and which are garbage. So far, I like the social networking apps- Twitterific, Facebook, Myspace. I look forward to discovering more as I go along and generally figuring out how to work this glorified makeup sponge. As I am still learning, I would love to know any tips or tricks you iPhoners out there might have…so let me know 
Don’t call me a convert, but I am starting to get the hang of the iPhone. I somewhat get why people treat it like their most cherished child, I just hope I don’t become one of them!