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I havent been here or the other 2 forums I am a member of for about a week because I finally bought my 1st smartphone and it just blows me away! It might be a liability because it just does so much stuff and you can literally lose hours after getting sucked up into it!
I work for myself and I always have tools in my pockets, so I have been buying flip-phones for like 10 years because they close and that protects the screen. So when they came out with texting phones and smartphones 5-6 years ago, I just knew that I would shatter the huge, wide open screen on these things within a few days or weeks, so I intentionally avoided them.
I bought my last flip phone and signed my last 2 year contract with AT&T 4 years ago, and although I used to upgrade phones every 1-2 years, this time I held on to the Rugby flip phone for 4 years, and didnt sign a new contract for 4 years either. I dont like AT&T, but I've been with the same service since it was Cellular one, then Cingular, now AT&T!! So although I see people messing with their smartphones, I didnt pay too much attention.
Then I discovered that they have good quality, protective cases for them now, and I finally decided it was time to give it a go, so I bought the iPhone 4S. Supposedly the new iphone 5 isnt all that much better than the 4s, plus they are back ordered.
So I get it and start checking it out, and I really didnt know what "apps" were, other than programs that make it easier to do business with certain businesses. But I didnt realize all the things these apps can do! I've been going overboard checking out new apps, because there are like 50,000 of them, many free. I'm not usually a video game guy, but I found this strategy game(app) called "Empires: World War". Its not one of these fast moving shooters, its a thoughtful strategy game based 'loosely' on world wars. Its addicting! You dont play it and win in a few minutes, you keep coming back to it to make adjustments and pick up currency, new weapons, etc.
But I've got apps that do anything from scanning bar codes of any product to tell you where to find it for sale and who has the best price, GPS mapping apps, apps that can guess any song by listening to it(or TV show), an app that turned my iphone into a bubble level, an altimeter, etc! Thats just the tip of the iceberg!!:lol:
I'm blown away, but I'm glad I waited til the technology got this good so the experience was so awesome that I didnt take it for granted... What do you think of them, what cool apps do you have?
I work for myself and I always have tools in my pockets, so I have been buying flip-phones for like 10 years because they close and that protects the screen. So when they came out with texting phones and smartphones 5-6 years ago, I just knew that I would shatter the huge, wide open screen on these things within a few days or weeks, so I intentionally avoided them.
I bought my last flip phone and signed my last 2 year contract with AT&T 4 years ago, and although I used to upgrade phones every 1-2 years, this time I held on to the Rugby flip phone for 4 years, and didnt sign a new contract for 4 years either. I dont like AT&T, but I've been with the same service since it was Cellular one, then Cingular, now AT&T!! So although I see people messing with their smartphones, I didnt pay too much attention.
Then I discovered that they have good quality, protective cases for them now, and I finally decided it was time to give it a go, so I bought the iPhone 4S. Supposedly the new iphone 5 isnt all that much better than the 4s, plus they are back ordered.
So I get it and start checking it out, and I really didnt know what "apps" were, other than programs that make it easier to do business with certain businesses. But I didnt realize all the things these apps can do! I've been going overboard checking out new apps, because there are like 50,000 of them, many free. I'm not usually a video game guy, but I found this strategy game(app) called "Empires: World War". Its not one of these fast moving shooters, its a thoughtful strategy game based 'loosely' on world wars. Its addicting! You dont play it and win in a few minutes, you keep coming back to it to make adjustments and pick up currency, new weapons, etc.
But I've got apps that do anything from scanning bar codes of any product to tell you where to find it for sale and who has the best price, GPS mapping apps, apps that can guess any song by listening to it(or TV show), an app that turned my iphone into a bubble level, an altimeter, etc! Thats just the tip of the iceberg!!:lol:
I'm blown away, but I'm glad I waited til the technology got this good so the experience was so awesome that I didnt take it for granted... What do you think of them, what cool apps do you have?