I've never been much of an early adopter, and am secretly something of a luddite, generally preferring pen and paper and all things old-timey to hand-helds and gadgets.
Though as a music lover, I made a gadget-exception for the iPod as soon as they came out with 80GB of space- in addition to my fairly huge library of mp3's, and audiobooks, podcasts are in constant rotation, especially at the gym; gym podcasting makes workout time fly, and keeps me up to date with all my favorite This American Life stories... oh, Ira Glass, you are a national treasure...
But I digress.
Moving onto the iPhone- I'd never particularly seen the appeal until someone at the office gifted one to me. My old, prehistoric Razr was failing from age, I needed a new phone and voila! Was handed a brand new iPhone, right out of the box. Holy generosity! It took me all of about 3 days to load up with apps and get it on the Doodlejump craze. It's not the greatest phone, I'll admit, but as toys go...well done, Apple!
Which brings me to the iPad. Why do we need this thing? I guess if you're a fan of e-reading, it outguns the Kindle, and I guess if you consume a lot of online movies, it affords an opportunity to do so more easily while travelling (as my laptop weighs in at 7lbs, I tend not to tote it through airports unnecessarily)...but for all the criticisms surrounding the iPad and it's dubious tech specs (particularly the charging issue...that would drive me nuts) and its inflexibility vis a vis its keyboard (virtual or bluetooth, but not both), not to mention its relatively small hard drive- why are people plunking down between $500-$800 for what ostensibly is a large screen iPhone? (Interesting review available here...)
Maybe it's just me, as I'm a PC person, and not the biggest fan of Apple products (my mobile devices proving the exceptions to that rule) but I'll be curious to read the user reviews once we pass the beta stage...
Though as a music lover, I made a gadget-exception for the iPod as soon as they came out with 80GB of space- in addition to my fairly huge library of mp3's, and audiobooks, podcasts are in constant rotation, especially at the gym; gym podcasting makes workout time fly, and keeps me up to date with all my favorite This American Life stories... oh, Ira Glass, you are a national treasure...
But I digress.
Moving onto the iPhone- I'd never particularly seen the appeal until someone at the office gifted one to me. My old, prehistoric Razr was failing from age, I needed a new phone and voila! Was handed a brand new iPhone, right out of the box. Holy generosity! It took me all of about 3 days to load up with apps and get it on the Doodlejump craze. It's not the greatest phone, I'll admit, but as toys go...well done, Apple!
Which brings me to the iPad. Why do we need this thing? I guess if you're a fan of e-reading, it outguns the Kindle, and I guess if you consume a lot of online movies, it affords an opportunity to do so more easily while travelling (as my laptop weighs in at 7lbs, I tend not to tote it through airports unnecessarily)...but for all the criticisms surrounding the iPad and it's dubious tech specs (particularly the charging issue...that would drive me nuts) and its inflexibility vis a vis its keyboard (virtual or bluetooth, but not both), not to mention its relatively small hard drive- why are people plunking down between $500-$800 for what ostensibly is a large screen iPhone? (Interesting review available here...)Maybe it's just me, as I'm a PC person, and not the biggest fan of Apple products (my mobile devices proving the exceptions to that rule) but I'll be curious to read the user reviews once we pass the beta stage...
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