For more than a year I've been carrying a cellphone with a battery so puny, if I used it for one call, I'd have to recharge it, or an obnoxious croaking sound would wake me in the middle of the night. I replaced the battery, with no improvement in performance. It was truly the Cellphone from Hell. I could never rely on it. My friends stopped calling me because they could never get through, and I swore I'd replace it with something reliable.
And replace it I did. Today my new (to me) iPhone arrived and I couldn't be more pleased with it. Of course it will take days to learn all the bells and whistles, but so far I've managed to take pictures, send email and text messages, make calls... Being a Mac fan, I'm finding all the apps very familiar and comfortable. It only took a couple of hours for me to pry it out of the Capt's hands. He's such a gadget freak.
Now if I want I can watch my favorite TV show while waiting for a doctor's appointment. (No, sorry, I won't tell you the name of the show, it's my private guilty pleasure.)
I wanted an iPhone for years, but was stuck in the belief I had to sign up with ATandT. But now there's "jailbreaking" so I can use it with phone cards. No commitment. The one I bought (via eBay) is used, but in excellent shape and a 3G, not the latest model because we're hearing there are issues with the 4G.
I was also under the mistaken illusion that you couldn't use an iPhone in Mexico... not so! My friends Ale and Ulissis have one, and one night last year at Bananas' Open Mic, Ulissis went online and found some song lyrics so Ale could go onstage and sing her favorite song. She stood up there, clutching that iPhone, reading the words as she sang! (A spunky lady, that one. )