An iPhone as a Personal Computer

I have an iPhone. I broke down and bought one. I know, I have caved in to the crowd, but the thing is just so useful and entertaining.

Of course, there are problems with it, like how the master volume affects the ringer volume, or how the messaging system is such a mess, what with having to go into three separate applications to check three separate messaging types, voice, mail, email...

Gripes aside, the quest is to discover if this sort of device is adequate for my normal day-to-day non work-related computing, such as blogging, surfing the web, reading email, watching netflix and playing games.

Games it does, and how. That is perhaps the most entertaining thing it does. If you haven't played games on an iPhone or iPod, go do it and see if you don't enjoy yourself.

Watching netflix it does as well. It gets five or six hours of video in, which is simply spectacular.

With the new email client that puts all my email in one place, I am willing to say it does email well enough.

The test, really, is the lightweight writing, the blogging, my novels and, lately, my resume. That is what I am after right now, and, so far, it is fairly positive.

I don't know why apple has not released pages for the iphone; that would seem to be such a natural thing to do. I am using a Microsoft Word compatible office product, office2, which has a pretty good spreadsheet, and tonight, after I finish getting it squared away, I will start using that to actually write a story. For now, though, I am blogging, and, with the apple bluetooth keyboard, this thing may work well enough for that.

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]