Joining the iPhone Masses

Day 7 of NaBloPoMo finds me excited about my soon-to-be received technological upgrade.

After what feels like waiting forever, I can finally say that I am the proud owner of an iPhone. Well, at least I can when it arrives in 3-5 days. After examining my options in the company cell phone policy, I felt it was time to opt out of the company's plan and try to have a personal phone reimbursed. This move will allow me more freedom in choosing my phone hardware, and protect my privacy better, since the company no longer will have records of my phone calls. Mind you, I have nothing to hide in that respect, but you can never be too careful these days with who has access to your personal information or records. I had also been told that by accepting a reimbursement to pay for personal cell phone use for work purposes (a flat amount every month, with no regard to how much you pay for minutes or data), the company financial burden is reduced. If this choice allows me the freedom to choose the tech I carry around, and it saves the company money in the process, both sides win.

There is the potential for me to incur overages if I happen to have a particularly busy month of business calls, but as my wife is adding me as a line to her existing plan, I should have access to her stash of almost 3700 unused rollover minutes (at least, I think that's what will happen). All in all, it feels like a good move.

And I get to have an iPhone! It's definitely an impulse buy, and it wasn't necessary, but I've had gadget envy for so long, the urge just couldn't be resisted any more. Before long, I'll be able to play in the world of iPhone apps that I could only read about or listen to people talk about. Here's to hoping it's all I think it will be, because there will be one disappointed tech nerd if it's not. If anyone out there has any recommendations of cool apps and/or games that they want to pass along, I'm all ears. It's a big ocean, and I haven't even dipped my toes in yet.

With that, I'm going to sign off for the evening, to go and let visions of iPhone games and apps dance in my head. Maybe it will get delivered early, maybe it will come over the weekend, so I'll have something to play with, maybe...I'll just have to wait until some time next week to play with my new toy. Sigh...