How About That iPhone

Hi Guys!

Well I thought maybe you might like to find out with me, something about the iPhone. Remember when they first came out with this new phenomenon? There was so much hype about it. With Apple having come out with the iPod, I guess it was just a matter of time, and yep, last year here came the iPhone. It started out at $500. WOW! That is a lot of bucks and yet people were standing in line (literally) to buy them. (Of course, it really hit the fan when several months later they brought the price down to $300 because China came out with a knock off cheaper.)

I got really confused the other day, because I didn't know what commercial I was watching. At first I thought it was an iPhone commercial, but it turned out to be the most advanced of the iPods. Anyway, apparently it is like a cell phone and computer combined. (Do you think grandpa could handle this one? I am having a hard time with it myself.)

How many years has it been since the phone went from crank to a standard rotater number selection, to push button number selection to a cell phone (a mega size phone) to a cell phone that gets smaller every year to the iPhone? In relative time, not long at all. One hundred years is nothing in the life span of invention. Consider how long it took to go from the crank to the cell phone. Then when the cell phones got smaller and we went from flip phone to the iPhone, it was like a blink of the eye.

The iPhone has one button for "home. It has a 3.5-inch color screen. The screen covers most of the face of the phone and is also a "multi-touch" display. It shows different controls depending on what kind of thing your doing. It actually has a keyboard that comes up on the bottom of the screen to type a text message using the phone part or e-mail using the computer part. Being the screen is bigger than the keyboard on any other kind of phone you have less finger cramping. (I don't text and when I see kids doing it and so fast too, I think, arthritis in the fingers when they get older. That's probably because I am older already and feeling the crampy fingers from years on the computer, and that has a big keyboard.)

Well, my crampy old fingers need a rest, so we'll continue with the iPhone next time. Until then have a good one!