Love it! As a "golden oldie" who remembers when households had ONE big old black telephone located in a central area of the house and when several households in a neighborhood shared a "party line," the iPhone just tickles me silly. As a "golden oldie" who still remembers the day back in the mid-1980's I sat at my kitchen table connecting to the internet via a Texas Instrument "portable" something-or-other computer, carefully placing our telephone receiver into the machine's acoustic coupler (connecting through a 12-baud modem) before I dialed, thrilled when the text prompts from ELHILL at the National Library of Medicine came up on the screen or text prompts from Dialog (a multi-database service) came up..... I said to my husband, staring at this in wonder, "I've got the whole world at my fingertips!" Indeed I did....and of course things only got better and better....
Fast-forward to afternoon, August 15, 2007: I was with a friend and we got into a conversation about a movie, the name of which she couldn't remember, but she had enough info that I was able to say, "ah, yes, that was a best-selling book before it was a movie,..." neither of us could remember the exact title. I knew the author's name, though. As we were walking into the pharmacy to pick up a prescription for her, I whipped out the iPhone and went into Google....voila! By the time we reached the Pick-Up counter, I had our answer.... Now, how cool is THAT?!
Fast-forward again to the evening of August 15, 2007: Sitting out on my balcony enjoying a warm but pleasant evening, I checked my email, checked out what was going on in a couple of my favorite forums (including this one, of course!), played some of my favorite tunes and enjoyed them without having the hassle of earphones.... At one point I came into the house and retrieved my iPod because I wanted to check something/compare something, and then after that I had the joy of a multimedia experience as I ran a slideshow of my photos on my iPod while enjoying the music coming from my iPhone.
All I can say is that each and every time I use my iPhone I am just totally gobsmacked by it and what it can do.....
