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UPDATE: FAKE
Can’t stop looking at this photo from Jeremy Cowarts series of iPhone photographs from his recent Haiti trip. If you have yet to view the series, I would highly recommend it.
Source: jeremycowart.com
iPhone4 & Me
I’ve been asked a few times now why I’ve chosen the iPhone, what kind of protection do I use on my iPhone, and what are some cool apps to download. I’ll try to briefly answer those questions here without boring the rest of you who are unfortunate not to own one.
OTHER OPTIONS
Honestly when it comes down to it, I don’t like the other options out there. When I heard the iPhone4 was coming out and all the specs and features were confirmed, I looked into every other option that could compete (Nexus One by Google, any number of Android phones, Palm Pre). For various reasons (namely 2 of those options don’t really even exist anymore) including poor usability I just wasn’t inspired to switch from an experience I was already more than happy to be a part of. Does that make me a fanboy? I don’t know, I don’t care. I’m just happy with my product and I’m sticking with it until I’m not.
PROTECTION
When I originally bought my iPhone 3G I bought a case for it along with a screen protector. After using the case for a month, I ditiched it. It made the phone chunky and awkward. The iPhone got dirtier than without the case on. And in the end the ultimate reason was because the case broke and I was no longer interested in dealing with any case at all. I never did put the screen protector on. After seeing other people with similar options and noticing all the little bubbles on their screen and lack of color, I was just willing to deal with the consequences of not having one.
My phone rarely leaves my hands or my pants pocket. I was very careful to place my phone in one pocket, and keep my keys and loose change in the other. That’s all I keep in my pockets anyways so that worked for me.
2 years later is my 3G in mint condition? No. Would anyone buy it if it was? No. Did I ever drop my phone? Yes. The backing of the phone is worn down, the seams are starting to come loose, there are a few scratches on the screen and there are a couple of scars from drops to the ground. The phone has been loved. It took a beating and kept on ticking.
APPS OF CHOICE
To begin with, there is a lot of good stuff in the app store, but there is even more junk in the app store. You will at some point buy an app and regret it after using it the first time. Deal with your loss and move on.
- Docked Apps - Phone, iPod, Mail and Calendar
These are my go to apps. These are the apps that I use more often than anything else. - Social Apps
Twitter - My favorite twitter client
Facebook - Who doesn’t have facebook?
Gowalla - A great and fun location based service. - Entertainment
Flixter - Theatre listings, Movie trailers, reviews, and upcoming stuff.
360Live - See which xbox friends are online without turning on your console.
Rdio - Best online music service of all time.
Shazam - Turn this on when you want to find the name of that tune.
Remote - Control your iTunes library from your iPhone.
iTV - See what’s on TV. - Productivity
TeuxDeux - A great to-do list. My favorite of many tried.
Simplenote - Great little note taking application
Reeder - The BEST RSS reader out there by far.
Converbot - Let this guy do the math for you.
Dropbox - No more need for that pesky flash drive. Sign up here. - Photography
Hipstamatic - fun little camera
Mill Colour - great free editing application
PS Express - another great editing application
Flickr - Flickr on your iPhone - Games
Bejeweled 2 - my facvorite 5 minute game
Scrabble - what else can be said?
Canabalt - a great way to pass the time. - Informative
Weather Eye - weather application
Yellow Pages - Look up some numbers
Dictionary - look up a word
Goofball Jones: iPhone 4 vs. All Those Android Phones
I was looking at getting the iPhone 4. I currently don’t have any phone, but I do have the iPad and I love it….so naturally I would think that going with an iPhone would be a logical choice as I can use many of the apps I have on the iPad with the iPhone.
But I also listen to people like Leo Laporte. He LOVES Android phones and talks about them all the time. So I looked into possibly getting an Android and this is what I found:
1. There is no “Android Phone”. With the iPhone you don’t really have to make any choices, it’s the iPhone. You get it, you use it. The only real choice is to either get the 16gig or the 32gig. You get the iPhone, you run the latest iOS on it.
Not so with Android. There is no one Android phone. So…do you go with the Nexus One? The Incredible? The Droid X? The Evo? The Eris? They are all different…some have different cameras, some have bigger displays. Some even have different UI’s….which brings us to #2.
2. Several different UI’s on Android. With the iPhone you have iOS…that’s it. Now some may say that it lacks customization and it doesn’t give users a choice, but on the Android you see where this becomes a quagmire. Some of the Android phones run Android 2.2, some run Android 2.1. Some don’t even run those versions. So when you get an Android you may or may not be running the latest software. You may or may not be able to run certain apps because you don’t have that certain OS version that it may need. And we’re not talking about older phones that may not be able to run certain applications like older iPhones do. Where’s Android 2.2 on the Evo? That’s a brand new phone, isn’t it? Why is it up to the phone company and manufacturer to insure the OS is upgraded?
Why do some phones have a different UI than other Android phones? Get an Evo and you get this pretty Sense UI on it. Have a buddy that has a Droid X? Sorry pal, your Android phone doesn’t run this. But wait, I thought it was all Android? Why do some Android phones run some things but others can’t? I want a Droid X with Android 2.2 and the Sense UI on it…do I have to jailbreak the damn thing just to do this? I thought this was all an open free-for-all system.
To be fair though, there may be some confusion with the new iPhone 4 and the older iPhones. Some new games may need the gyroscope only found in the iPhone 4 for instance…but I think the API is that you can still run those games on the older iPhones, just not with the same level of control. In my opinion it’s still not as confusing as the myriad of different options that you get with Android…which is both a blessing to some and a curse to others. To me it’s a curse. I’ve always found that less options breed more creativity in me. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it works for me.
Source: goofballjones
Ever break or heavily scratch the screen (front panel) on your iPhone? Check out this video to see how to replace it yourself on the cheap. You can buy all the stuff you need for under $20 here.
This is cute but I can’t find the Green Lantern feature on my Nexus One or my iPhone.
(via: maniacalrage)
Source: maniacalrage
