Gravatar Very cool. According to one self-assessment tool, I'm very much a Blackberry person and not an iPhone person. But I'm still very impressed with the iPhone and am tempted to get one when they come to Verizon (rumored for soonish).

A challenge for me is that the iPhone offers many more temptations to use technology-mediated information instead of eyes/ears/people-mediated information to interact with the world.

Not long ago I was in SFO Mission District with some friends, and we wondered which direction we needed to go to find the restaurant we were hunting. Geoff pulled out the iPhone. Dave pulled out the Google phone. I wanted to just walk, look, and ask passers-by for help.

Advantages exist for each method in its time and place. It's just that I'm wary of using technology any more than I already do. I fear it's share of my experience/sensory bandwidth time is already too high.


Gravatar I'll be impressed when they come out with a "nearest bar" function. If it's global.


Gravatar Oh, hell, Buck - that already exists for the iPhone in many forms. The app I use (which also finds nearest restaurants, nearest hospitals, gas stations, supermarkets, movie theaters, etc and can provide directions and map links) is "AroundMe" - but there are many many others.

http://www.tweakersoft.com/mobil...e/ aroundme.html


Gravatar Oh, hell, Buck - that already exists...

Figgers. But I'm quite SURE it won't work in Portales... coz there's no AT&T cell service. Which is why I switched from Ma Bell's descendant to Sprint when I arrived here from SFO.


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