I’m Getting an iPhone!

I think I’m the last business person in the world (certainly the last CEO) to not have some sort of PDA. That will all be changing this week when my new 8gig iPhone arrives!

I’ve never been an early-adopter of new technology, but when I first saw images and info on the iPhone when it was first announced, it was love at first sight. I was too scared to get it right away as it was very much untested, so I figured I’d wait awhile to see how those who first got it liked it. By most accounts, it appears that people love it!

Still, I wasn’t in a hurry to get one, as I’m never very far from my laptop anyway. But a few things happened to spur me into action and let me know that the time was right. The first was that my husband’s cellphone bit the dust. He doesn’t use his very much, but it comes in handy so he really does need to have one. Since my daughter Corie uses hers a ton and is always complaining that hers doesn’t work great, we figured she could give him hers and she could get a new one as his was ripe for an upgrade from ATT and hers wasn’t. However, when she went to buy a new one, it appeared that due to Cingular changing back into ATT and our account being a Family plan, we were going to have to all upgrade to new phones. (We just did that last time when ATT turned into Cingular!) That sounded like way more trouble than it was worth, especially because one of our phones is in Hawaii with my daughter Jamie.

So I thought, hmm…if I have to upgrade phones anyway, it would be silly for me to get something other than the iPhone that I was eventually going to get anyway. Plus, I thought it might be possible to keep our current plan and not have to switch all our phones if I got the iPhone as it works somewhat differently than their usual phones. (I called them and this appears to be the case.) But, the other thing that told me the time was right was when I read that the price came down $200! Between that and everything else, there was just no way I couldn’t get one!

Corie’s not thrilled that she won’t be getting a new phone, and my husband isn’t too thrilled that he won’t have a flip phone, but both of them can live with it for now. And meanwhile, I’M GETTING AN iPHONE!!!

It still feels like somewhat of a frivolous purchase to me, as I rarely buy anything just because I like it or want to (other than my Mini Cooper!).  But what the heck?  It’s only $20 more a month and a business expense.  Plus, I believe I may be able to cancel my ATT wireless card that I use for my laptop once I have the iPhone, and that’s about $60 per month.  So in the end, I will actually be saving myself money.

Posted by Jill on 09-09-2007 at 01:09 pm
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