After a while I folded and never looked back. People stopped using the phone, then comes along SMS and now messaging and mails. I travel often and it helps a lot having a smart phone. There are days when I don't make or receive a single phone call. Phone calls are now considered too intrusive and disruptive.
One day I was in a foreign city and heading to the museum. I pulled out my iphone to check if I was heading in the right direction. A family came along and asked for the direction to the same place. We checked the GPS on the phone and we all agreed how indispensable it has become. Until that incident, I took it for granted its use for nearly a year.
The iphone and ipad is now such an indispensable tool to make life so much easier.
I do however do not carry any sensitive or silly thing on my devices that will come and haunt me. At least I think I don't I do.acc
In terms of importance , here are the features
1) Mail (as many accounts)
2) Office mail - special app with encryption including calendar, attachment reading)
2) contacts / address
3) browser
4) GPS
5) Kindle/Ibook reader
I am now highly mobile. On a weekend you find me early in the morning in cafe shooting a white americano and the fun begins. Read the news, heard about a great book on the news. Turn on safari, check amazon, download book. Then the mails from family and friends. By then it is close to 11am. Time for a another shot of caffeine. Facetime with loved ones. Love how sharp and clear this is ( I must be nuts to use the phone when facetime has visual and fucking free care of the joint's BB). Then it is SBF time. Quick scan and time to post whats on my mind. and the rest is pretty much routine.
My advice is to use one of these.
View attachment 5536
Walking around with a smart phone containing your whole life is not a wise thing to do. I learned the easy way when I saw similar scenes of panic when my iPhone owner friends misplaced theirs. Their whole lives were turned upside down.
Those who stored "interesting images" were the ones who really freaked out.
I told myself that I would never put myself in a similar situation.