In the last day, I have had cause to think of the cost of staying
connected via an i phone.
First off we all pay a monthly service charge perhaps starting
around $50. Put another $7 or more on for insurance if you buy it. Then
there is the cost of the phone which can be dirt cheap if it is your first
phone provided by a carrier you have been with for a long time. Once that
phone needs replacing however, let's say, 2 years and a few months, you are
in for purchasing a new phone or a used one, or might pay a $200 deductible
on one that your insurance coverage will replace due to hardware damage. Add
this all up, and it's thousands of dollars over a mere 2 year period.
I have to ask what the true value is in all this?
On the practical, not philosophical front, I am paying for the
convenience and portability of a phone that I can make calls on and text
with, and I can do all the information sharing and web searching, social
networking, watch movies, listen to podcasts, read books, etc all on the run
or away from home. Other than phone service and texting, all of this I can
do on my desktop computer for the price of my internet service.
What would I be missing if I gave this all up? Yesterday, I
seriously thought of buying a monthly phone service for $25 and giving the
rest up. Has anyone tried doing that lately? I'd like to hear about it! Are
you planning more hikes or tandem bike rides?
How I love my phone! I love lying in bed or cleaning house
and moving my phone from room to room while I listen to a podcast, a replay
of a news show, or a book. Again, I could do all this on a desktop computer
provided the volume on my speakers reached the far rooms. I doubt I'd miss
not getting calls or texts while away from home unless I was traveling out
of State. Admittedly, the cheapest cell phone service I was able to purchase
was $39 per month so the additional cost to text and have a phone with voice
over menus is definitely superior to that.
I wonder if I've already nearly fully answered my question cause I'm
sitting here smiling broadly as I write this. Still, I conclude that I'm
crazy for putting out the money to entertain myself around the clock, not
unlike an avid TV watcher, when I could be out gardening or I could spend
more time at the gym, or finishing a novel and/or the few short stories in
the works! I could even get some kind of volunteer job. I will say that when
I do work for pay, my work being as a masseuse, I do not use my phone at
all.
One good thing, I guess, is that if I go silent, friends might
inquire as to whether or not I am still alive, so for safety's sake, I guess
that detail gets racked up in the plus column.
I did not write or dictate this using my phone. I am typing away on
a full keyboard, which is far more comfortable and affords much more time
for thinking. If I could word process using a full keyboard or a dictation
program that would allow you to dictate unlimited text, I'd trash the
desktop pronto. Oh, no no no, having a iphone on the blink for the past day
was bad enough, we'll always need back up, now won't we?
Deidre
Deidre
--
The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.
If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you
feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or
moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.
Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at:
[email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at
[email protected]
The archives for this list can be searched at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
