My smart phone died.
If you tried to call me anytime over the past 24 hours you probably wondered why you heard me blabbering about how I couldn't hear you. The little thing that they put in that little hole that you hold next to your ear died on me. "Never saw that before!" says the manager at the T-Mobile store. Luckily it was under warranty and they'll send me another one... by mid next week.
So now I'm on our back-up cell phone. The one that was really just fine for me until I got the smart phone in January, which I really didn't think I needed at the time. Now I'm looking at the thing as if it had a rotary dial. No internet access. Can't get my email. Can't scan news headlines. No video. Can't scan in QR codes.
How did I live with this thing before?
Isn't it amazing how quickly we become accustomed to the latest and greatest, almost forgetting what was really just fine beforehand?
Can't listen to music on it. Can't see the weather radar or get a forecast on it. Can't look up someone's phone number or address on it.
What's really striking me is that I know I have just been scratching the surface with mobile. I have not bought anything through it. I have not paid my bills with it. The features and the apps just keep coming. Who knows what these things will eventually do? But for the next four or five days I'm stuck with this flip-style thing.
Can't check my schedule on it. Can't get directions with it. Can't use it as a flash light.
Taking this short step back (and it is short, I used this phone 10 months ago!) only makes me more excited about where we are going with mobile. The smart phone is the devise that I believe will lead to more changes in our daily lives than any other.
You know what I would really like my next phone to do? Replace my garage door opener! Somebody get on that.
If you tried to call me anytime over the past 24 hours you probably wondered why you heard me blabbering about how I couldn't hear you. The little thing that they put in that little hole that you hold next to your ear died on me. "Never saw that before!" says the manager at the T-Mobile store. Luckily it was under warranty and they'll send me another one... by mid next week.
So now I'm on our back-up cell phone. The one that was really just fine for me until I got the smart phone in January, which I really didn't think I needed at the time. Now I'm looking at the thing as if it had a rotary dial. No internet access. Can't get my email. Can't scan news headlines. No video. Can't scan in QR codes.
How did I live with this thing before?
Isn't it amazing how quickly we become accustomed to the latest and greatest, almost forgetting what was really just fine beforehand?
Can't listen to music on it. Can't see the weather radar or get a forecast on it. Can't look up someone's phone number or address on it.
What's really striking me is that I know I have just been scratching the surface with mobile. I have not bought anything through it. I have not paid my bills with it. The features and the apps just keep coming. Who knows what these things will eventually do? But for the next four or five days I'm stuck with this flip-style thing.
Can't check my schedule on it. Can't get directions with it. Can't use it as a flash light.
Taking this short step back (and it is short, I used this phone 10 months ago!) only makes me more excited about where we are going with mobile. The smart phone is the devise that I believe will lead to more changes in our daily lives than any other.
You know what I would really like my next phone to do? Replace my garage door opener! Somebody get on that.
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