I guess I am the only person who really likes my Iphone. If we are out shopping for instance, and we have just gone to every store we know of that has a double oven (recent shopping event) I can search the internet to find out if there are any other appliance stores out there that we don't know about, and my phone will tell me exactly how to get to them. Or say we remember some place we have been to, but don't recall exactly where it is, we can search from the iphone. There is no need to return home and search the internet or consult the increasingly unuseful Yellow Pages phone directory. Also, if we have just decided to go to restaurant that we are going to be driving near, we can get the number from the Iphone and call for reservations, easily. Vis a vis the camera function. It is great. My husband and I have had many cameras over the years that we take with us to places. Inevitably when we get to these places, my husband, who doesn't like to carry things, says, we can leave the camera in the car, right? Then supposedly if there is something we would like a photo of, we intend to go get it, but that never seems to work out. Now, with the Iphone, I can take a picture instantly and not carry any extra weight. I can, for instance, suddenly decide to take a picture of my daughter and her boyfriend at dinner, and I can send it instantly to his mother so that she can enjoy the moment, too. When my daughter travels, she usually sends me a picture every day so that I can see what she is doing. I can even take a picture of an interesting lace if one appears, without having to have anticipated this. I was in Ithaca for the lace weekend this year and was walking by a closed store with a beautiful wire woven sculpture in the window. I thought one of my lace friends who works in wire would be interested, so I took a picture of it, and dispatched it instantly. I actually find there are many times when my expensive camera takes a worse picture than the Iphone, especially when I am shooting a picture of lace through a glass barrier. I have no idea why this is. But after taking a few with my expensive camera that don't work out, I take one with the Iphone and it is usually better. As for the utility of messages, it is always nice when you are standing on a street corner waiting for someone to meet you, to be able to check for messages in case the person has left you one saying she isn't coming, or is running late and will meet you somewhere else. I can also read my email on it when we are traveling, thus saving me from having to take a computer and pay for an internet connection. And then there are those moments in the car or when you are out, when you suddenly want to know some item of trivia like the state bird, let's say, or when gun powder was invented, or when the Erie Canal opened. Sometimes this is very important for settling disputes among family members. Voila, wikipedia to the rescue. Actually, the first time I saw an Iphone, it was at Sweet Briar and another attendee wanted to know how she could get the desirable flat pillows from Germany. She had me search the internet for the provider on her Iphone during lunch, and I found her. It was then that I perceived that the Iphone had real possibilities. Devon
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