I-phone owners

sunnyflorida
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:00:48 +0000

I love my iphone. I use the maps application so often I could not live without it. I use that app for travel, and for just looking up addresses and phone numbers. I do not need a PDA and longer and have epocrates right on my phone. I have other handy apps that save me time and money. One of my favorites is the leveler. All my apps except my epocrates are free apps.

When I travel out of the country, I have a cheap unlocked quad band phone I got NEW on ebay for $24. I then buy a local SIM card from MrSimCard for the country I will be traveling to, and usually can call back to the US for 20-25 cents a minute (beats ATT’s 99 cents a minute). I turn my iphone on airplane mode so I can still listen to music and use the apps, and have my office call or family call and leave messages on my iphone cell number and that triggers NO CHARGES if it is in airplane mode. I then use my cheap phone to call my ATT number and listen to messages, calling back on my cheap phone, all for that same 20-25 cents a minute. It is my experience that whether it is ATT, Verizon or Sprint, you pay big bucks for calls abroad, and you pay big roaming charges for data. So just don’t use it for data or minutes if you travel abroad. Or just use it in a wireless environment.

My iphone is now my peripheral brain. I would age 10 years overnight if I could no longer have it. I don’t use it all that much, but what I use it for makes my life much simpler and easier.