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7 Reasons I love my iPhone

April 10th, 2009

For the last 10 or so days I have been without my iPhone. It was doing this weird thing where people couldn’t hear me unless I had them on loudspeaker, and even then, I was quiet. So I bit the bullet and sent it in for repair. A good friend of mine, Aaron, works at a phone shop, and so he was looking after it all for me, and gave me his old phone to borrow. It’s apparently a really good phone, but for me, just wasn’t my iPhone.

Yesterday I got a BRAND NEW iPhone given to me from Apple to replace my old one. Having it back was just brilliant, and here’s the reasons why:

1. Clarity. Because the iPhone is basically just a screen, the screen is big. Oh how easy it is SEE what I’m doing! The date is easy, the set out of it all is neat, and it’s easy to see missed calls, received calls etc. And things are LABLED, not just little symbols I don’t know about…

2. Backups. When I plugged my new iPhone in, iTunes opened and it said to me something along the lines of ‘this is a brand new iPhone, and you’ve been syncing a different one normally. Did you just want to put everything from TSRC (old phone) onto this one?’
Errr… YES! This is perfect! I didn’t do a backup or anything on that computer before I took it in!
Not only did it remember all my apps and the SETTINGS in my apps, but it returned to me my entire chat and call history!

3. Easy. It’s easy to touch and flick and select and move. The other phone I was using had a touch screen which I had to use a stylus to use, and even then, because the screen was small, and it wasn’t all that sensitive, it was hard and annoying. I love that my iPhone is simple to slide my finger across, and that it is the perfect sensitivity.

4. Typing. I know some people don’t like typing on the iPhone, and I admit, when I first started, I was one of them. BUT, after typing on a tiny little qwerty keyboard on this other phone, I LOVE the iPhone, particularly the self-correct features. It doesn’t matter that your finger touches other letters, because it will work out what you meant to type when you finish the word, and change it.

5. Apps. I was seriously a bad twitterer while I didn’t have my iPhone (I use Tweetie). Not to mention a bad girl at church with no bible (I use the Olive Tree Bible Reader), and forgetful with out my todo list (I use Awesome Note Pro)!

6. Syncing. I mentioned before about the backups, but being able to sync your phone, so that the information in my calenders are the same, address book is the same, and easily adding photos and music is just one of the reason I love this phone.

7. Logical. I find the iPhone logical. It’s logical that you can order your apps the way you want them, that you can call voicemail by pressing a button instead of going into contacts, that you can put it on silent by flicking a switch on the side, and that you can lock it with one click on the top also.