The iPhone Nomad - Is He or She Possible?
I have a goal. You might say I'm looking for the silver lining in a
storm cloud.
Over the next six months I'm going to have to wind down my financial
lifestyle to the point I live in a camper trailer behind my car. Enough
said about that. What I really am looking at is the fact that I use my
iPhone as my telephone and my Internet as well as writing already. I
have a laptop that is a dual-boot one side being Fedora 11 and the other
side being Windows XP. My thinking is that I can keep my iPhone updated
on Windows and use Skype for my telephone existence with e-mail being
the way people contact me more formally.
But this notion of a nomad lifestyle brings up several questions. First,
using an iPhone with Windows means that you have less functionality in
relationship between the operating system and the handset. What is it
that Windows won't be able to do for my iPhone that the Macintosh
operating system can. (Trading my laptop in for a Macintosh lap top is
not an option in my financial situation)
Secondly, this means that I am way to be dependent on the “E”, “3G” and
Starbucks type WiFi for all my networking needs. Can I update the
software on my iPhone through a Starbucks type WiFi connection? I'm sure
it's going to take longer than on broadband, but is it even possible?
Thirdly, I'm not even sure whether Fedora 11 and Windows XP can update
over WiFi.
And the whole business of people calling me if I have to use Skype alone
is a mystery so far.
Perhaps if I had just a cheaper landline that phone number could reach
me over the AT&T network and have really slow updates. But that itself
would be depending on being able to hang onto my home, and eventually I
will almost certainly have to move to my camper trailer.
So you see I have some logistics problems here, and I have a sneaky
suspicion I'm not even seeing some real pitfalls. But I'd like to ask
anyone who has experience in any of these areas to help me orient
myself, and in return I plan to write a kind of article about the whole
thing and put it out there somehow because I think that there will be a
lot of us out there someday.
Don't cry for me Argentina, after all, if you have an iPhone by
definition you are one of the really lucky ones in this world of 6.7 5
billion people.
Leo Rivers December 16, 2009 9:16 AM Cottage Grove, Oregon 2009©
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