A month or two after the iPhone G3 was released in the Netherlands I got one for myself. I’m already a T-Mobile client so the switch was with minimal fuss. I even got it before my contract had run out, I just upgraded to the iPhone contract that comes with 150 minutes, 150 SMS and unlimited data transfer. The only restriction was that you have to take a 2 year contract, even if you offer to pay more for the phone.
The iPhone was of the best purchase I have made, since I’m deaf a regular phone is too much of an hassle to use for SMS. With the iPhone now I have all the above fro 30 euros a month. I can type SMS messages more easier, I have Push set to check every 30 minutes for email messages. This is handy considering I get my blood results through email from the doctors and any other contacts like work, etc. are through email instead of phone.
Now when waiting for my turn at appointments or during train rides I can kill time reading the news online, checking facebook and twitter. I have several apps installed that I use daily or regularly:
- Ego
- Camerabag
- AirMe
- Buienradar(A dutch app that shows the weather satellite images)
- Trein(Train departures in the Netherlands)
- BelStatus(shows my current T-Mobile subscription usage)
I relied several times on Google maps when I had to go somewhere where I’ve never been before. I would turn it on, fill in the address of where I have to be, active current target and walk to my destination with the help of GPS. The weather app I consult more then once a day, I’m weather obsessed. Just yesterday after reading that the first storm of the hurricane season has formed I downloaded the hurricane app to keep track of this hurricane season, especially now with climate changes that Aruba keeps getting more in the risk area. Or actually the risk area keeps expanding beyond Aruba.
I can conclude that after 8 months of using the iPhone I won’t use anything less anymore. The Blackberry seems to be good too, but I never saw one to try out. So I won’t compare those two.
