<p>In my experience, email does not eat a lot of data if you don’t send graphics. If you don’t watch YouTube videos while on 4G, you are fine with 1 Gb per month.</p>
<h1>272 - LOL!!! Good one, jym. :)</h1>
<p>I turn all sounds off at night, otherwise, there is a chance that I might get awaken by a text or email from my kiddo who lives on the other side of the planet.</p>
<p>I only do YouTube on WiFi, usually on a PC or tablet. I started with a 3 GB plan and plan to go up to a 5 GB plan in a month or two and then discontinue service on the MiFi as AT&T gives you tethering at 5 GB.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that you can block Cellular data use by application and I may give that a try in the future.</p>
<p>We FaceTime’d with my D on Saturday who pre-ordered her iPhone5 from Sprint and she had it in her mailbox by 9/21. I guess Sprint didn’t run a backlog as much as others … a friend here in VT was also able to buy an iPhone5 from a store here in VT on Saturday (9/22), but they only have one left after him.</p>
<p>Sprint still has an unlimited data plan so it makes up for the spotty coverage in rural areas in VT.</p>
<p>After using the phone for a few days, it feels natural - to the point that I don’t think about it that much. That’s probably because I used a feature phone with an iPod Touch. So it’s nice to have one device to do everything and it does everything well.</p>
<p>I went to the Apple Store today to pick up a USB connector and the place was quite busy. It took me about 10 minutes for me to make my purchase as all of the salespeople were busy with customers. Customers were all over the store - not just at the phone section.</p>
<p>I’ve realized a key design decision is the weight. Spend a little time and other phones feel heavy. Apple understands how design can change and manipulate perception.</p>
<p>It does feel incredibly light, almost hollow. My previous phone, the Motorola RAZR weighs 95 grams while the iPhone 5 weighs 112 grams. The iPhone 5 is quite a bit bigger than the Motorola RAZR, which, for me, explains why it feels so light in my hands.</p>
<p>I went from an iPhone 4 to iPhone 5, and the lightness–even though it’s only an ounce–is immediately noticeable and hard to appreciate until you hold it in your hand. </p>
<p>This phone does have less of an aha! factor than when I went from the 3G to the 4, but it’s a nice refinement, and there’s something to be said for familiarity. </p>
<p>I’m technically competent, but at least in the smartphone component of my life, I appreciate something simple and intuitive that doesn’t require a lot of messing with settings, etc. I’m happy in my walled garden. </p>
<p>I wonder if how I’d feel about a gynormous screen, like the Galaxy, but this does feel right and I can easily continue to operate it with one hand–quite useful for when I’m walKing the dog.</p>
<p>I have tried the larger screens and found I need two hands to do just about anything. The iPhone screen has been the size to hold in one hand so your thumb could reach the entire screen. The 5’s size requires some compromises in how you hold it but at least my hand doesn’t hurt trying to reach things.</p>
<p>Yes, the new Samsung anti-iphone ads are hilarious.</p>
<p>As for maps with confouding errors, I read some time ago that the hard copy U.S. map/atlas companies always included ficticious locations and phony names on their maps so they could prove theft should a competitors’s edition turn out to look a little too similar their own product. LOL, it’s a MAP!!!</p>
<p>I’ve tried the Galaxy Nexus which is my daughter’s phone now and you do need two hands to use it unless you have really huge hands. I find that the iPhone 5 takes more effort to use one-handed compared to my old iPod Touch. I can hold it securely between first and last fingers and navigate with my thumb but this requires a bit of a stretch on the extreme fingers. I can also hold it sideways with four fingers but navigating email by using the thumb requires a bit of a stretch. I guess that I’ll get used to it but for those on the iPhone 4S or earlier, the 2.5 inch size is quite good.</p>
<p>I also got our corporate VPN to work. I got AnyConnect to work earlier but it wasn’t as smooth as VPN. I have to use AnyConnect with my Nexus 7 as I don’t think that we have Android VPN support yet. This means that I can have access to more applications in the office.</p>
<p>I need to see if there’s a terminal emulator and VNC client.</p>
<p>I’m quite happy with my Galaxy III. It fits nicely in my hand, the 40% larger screen (total area) makes a BIG difference (you can fit a lot more readable type on the screen), the photo quality is better. I’ll will be getting the new Jelly Bean OS in October, and then it will really rock. Since I use the phone at home quite a bit, don’t use any data to speak of.</p>
<p>I seem to average about 35 hours on a charge.</p>
<p>There are a bunch of terminal emulators. SSH, pTerm, etc. All are pretty cheap.</p>
<p>The vnc client apps tend to be a little more money.</p>
<p>I may just go with VNC on the Android tablet instead of getting something on the iPhone. The iPhone display looks too small in the pictures for terminal emulation and remote system control.</p>
<p>Haven’t used it on a phone. I need reading glasses to read anything.</p>
<p>Went to the AT&T store to get my employee discount. They took my badge and signature and my account should drop to $60/month for next month.</p>
<p>Can I complain for a minute. Right now we have ATT. We had Verizon for years and it’s a long story but 2 years ago we switched to ATT. No one is really happy with ATT and we want to switch to Verizon. Since the entire family switched at the same time we can all switch to Verizon at any time.</p>
<p>No problem, S says he gets a 20% discount on Verizon so he is going to be the primary phone. He didn’t want to switch right away as he is waiting on the RAZR HD.</p>
<p>But now D says Iphone5 is backordered until the end of October. </p>
<p>Here’s hoping we can all get the phones we want and switch at the same time. Seems so confusing. I thought that there would be a big rush for the Iphone and then they would not be very hard to find. Hoping the backlog catches up soon.</p>
<p>I am feeling as though we were very lucky. We just popped into a Verizon store Saturday and bought an iPhone5 to replace a recently ruined phone. Who knew we should have pre-ordered. I told my son that for the first time in his life, he would own a phone that other people might want to steal, so he should take care of it.</p>
<p>I was the only with iPhone 5 at work today. Everyone wanted to check it out.</p>
<p>Funny note: sales are considered “disappointing” because 5 million were sold in 3 days. Analysts expected more. Problem is Apple sold all they had and they meant 5 million actual physical deliveries and handing over of phones, not the number sold. We have no idea how many they sold but it seems to be a freaking ton. Note that Apple’s supply chain and deals with carriers around the world now means they’re launching the phone in 31 countries almost right away. Even the last phone took months to roll out around the world. They’ll be in 100 countries by the end of the year.</p>
<p>This kind of bad reporting is a problem now; people intentionally - I believe - misrepresent things to make a story in the hopes it blows up and they get press from it. Not just tech stories but daily stuff. I saw, for example, a big piece about a “gay slur” by Paris Hilton. Don’t give a hoot about her but she was joking with a gay friend on twitter and made a joke about gay people having HIV. It was obviously a joke but that doesn’t become a story so it was (intentionally) misrepresented.</p>