Posted on March 18, 2008 - by John

iPhone Fever?

I got my iPhone a few months ago, long before it was released here and the UK, it was and I suppose, still is, a must have device. It’s something I use every day – so I do get value for it, checking my e-mail as well as calls and of course my iPod. But this can be done by a lot of devices for much less money – without buying into the whole iTunes encrypted music issue and at 3g speeds, something the iPhone does not currently offer. But then – that’s me, I love these hype technologies.

To get to the point, today at lunch time I was nipping out for a snack when I noticed a young girl yapping away on her iPhone, turned to the corner and there was a middle aged man tapping away at the iPhone screen, on my way back to the office I noticed a woman yapping to her friends on her iPhone.

AHHHHHHHH!!!

It felt a bit surreal, everyone had one, it seemed as thought I had jumped ship from having what everyone wanted and I had, to being one of the many, who owns an iPhone. The days of people stopping me in the street and asking where I got my iPhone and how it works – is over.

Do I still want it? Yea of course, but it takes a bit from the novelty of having ‘a must have’ phone that previously was not available in the shops of Ireland. I have been looking on expansys.ie, who offers some pretty cool touch screen – windows based phones. But windows mobile is such a pile of rubbish compared to the cool stylings of the iPhone interface.

I’m interested to see what happens when 2.0 version of the iPhone software is released in June, will it really pull BlackBerry customers over to Apple? Probably not, but it will be very interesting to watch, and of course fool around with the new applications.

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