Things I do now:
1. Making three-way calls, because it is so obvious how to do it.
Add-Call button, dial the next number however you usually dial,
Merge-Calls button (in the same place the Add-Call button was). It just
works!
2. Taking pictures with the phone instead of the digital camera in my
backpack, because the iPhone pictures are good enough for most purposes
and they get onto my Mac more often than from the camera (i.e., when I
charge).
3. Adding new people to my contact list, because it is faster to do it
than with any other phone I have had before. The on-screen keyboard is
just so much easier than multi-tap.
Things I can't do anymore and miss:
1. Sending photos from my phone to my kid's phones, because it sends
them in regular email and nobody in my family likes using the email on
the iPhone (all 4 of us have iPhones and, to my knowledge, nobody uses
the email). I sure wish I could send photos phone-to-phone not mediated
through regular email (anybody know how I can do that)?
2. Having a separate ring tone for each person in my family -- sure I
can have different ring tones, but the only one of the default ring
tones I can actually hear is the annoying alarm signal (sounds like an
alarm on a submarine or a fire alarm). I tried distinctive ringtones for
my family, but I missed too many calls from them because I didn't hear
the ring and they all got mad at me. I wish all the sounds could be
turned up louder for us 50+ crowd with failing hearing. (Yes, I did go
to the Apple Store and ask them to help me with this - they said I have
it as loud as it goes.)
Everybody else seems to use the web -- I HATE that because it is so slow
(yes, I have an original iPhone). I only do it when I have no other way
to get to the web.
Many people use email -- I can't stand that because the top 50 are
always spam and I can't search or sort -- again, I would much prefer to
whip out my laptop than struggle with this tiny screen with no searching
or sorting (no, I don't use spam filters and yes, I have a lot of good
reasons not to, but it does make the iPhone unusable for email).
Listen to music, yeah, I do some of that, but it didn't make the top three.
Bonnie
Petroff, Greg wrote:
Quick straw poll question for list members who have iPhones.
What are the top 3 things you find yourself doing now with your iPhone
that you did not do before and why?
--Greg
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