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The new iPhone 4 is fully on the market now. If I timed it right I could probably go to any Apple Store or AT&T or Best Buy and not even have to stand in line to buy one. I haven't read many of the articles about the new iPhone previous to now. Most were openly speculative about what the new features would be.
Now that the various pundits have gotten their hands on the retail product and used it according to their own needs some serious reviews are appearing online. I have especially waited for this one:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review
The guy who owns this site is my favorite technical writer about the new stuff that hits the consumer market. He explains the stuff I need to understand to even think about whatever it is. His articles on SSDs (solid state storage devices) were considered seminal all over the internet. He's still the go-to source for what's going on in that brave new world of flash memory.
The article I linked above is rather long, but it's very thorough. All the testing and research they're famous for comes across with easy-to-read charts and technical details that satisfy my need to know without having to go to engineering school just to come away with the rudimentary understanding I use to intuit most answers I need.
It really boosted my confidence when Ben chided me for saying that I didn't really understand wireless networking. He casually pointed out that I have been wireless since they cut the umbilical cord between me and my mother's womb seven decades ago. At some level I just gotta understand everything there is to know about wireless networking even if I don't consciously know that I know.
That particular event worked on me. It didn't go away even after Ben made sense to me about it in real time. His metaphor popped into my mind about every time I got ready to admit that I was the last person in the world to understand wireless networking. I con't pretend that's true anymore. If I'm stymied about something in the wireless arena, it's because I'm lazy and filled to the brim with sloth. No blame. It's easy to be me if I kick back.
I got that article link bookmarked so that I can read a while and rest a while. I can tell from the drop-down index that it's gonna take a while to get through the whole thing. The titles in the index, however, indicate that most of the questions about iPhone 4 I've entertained will be answered. It even addresses how much it will probably cost to use it.
That's critical for me with my fixed income. My DSL account is helping me decide by raising the price I'm paying for this now ancient technology to just less than $70 a month base rate. An early general comment in the Anandtech article suggested having an iPhone would cost $200 up front and a little over $100 a month in data fees.
If the truth were looked at with an unjaundiced eye, using the iPhone would cost me $30 more than I'm paying now, but I'm suspecting the DSL people are gonna rape me for whatever they can get because they deliberately invested in this out-of-date technology for the sole purpose of milking the die-hards like me dry.
The attraction for me, and a lot of other even more active people is the mobility of being able to be online from anywhere without having to find some permanent connection to use when I'm not at home. I wouldn't have to be at home to do the little bit I do on the internet now. I still use e-mail to communicate more than any other feature, and I read all the news I can tolerate over the internet. Using the internet less now makes mobility even more desirable.
Capturing drifting thoughts with words has always been my primary way of reaching out to the external environment and thus other people. It's the only way I know to be receptive to what other people are into without projecting what I'd be doing in their stead.
I'm probably the only-est person in the world that knows my prose is merely an extension of my poetry or that the drifting thoughts I am apperceives as an amusing diversion do not originate from my own abstract constructions. You're reading my abstract constructions, and reading into them what you think you'd have meant. All the best with that... eh? '-)
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
