Listening to: Psychosocial by Slipknot.
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I bought an iPhone. I wanted one and wanted it bad. I have missed countless photography gigs because I was too lazy to check me emails daily. That and I couldn’t check it at work (can now, but at the time I couldn’t – stupid IT filters). So I wanted a phone that could do emails. The Blackberry was on the list, but the costs were out of my budget.
But the rumours of a 3G iPhone started and my ears pricked up. Then Optus (my phone carrier) announced they’d be offering it and my ears pricked up a bit more. Then they announced their plans and I was sold. It’s about what I was paying for my then-current phone (a Nokia 6280 that had a bad habit of restarting itself), and I got email, a nice big data allowance per month and all the little extras you get with the iPhone.
The touchscreen idea hasn’t worn off and I doubt it will to be honest. The App Store rocks, though some of the games are a bit steep, at least compared to the Java games on the Nokia. But the range of free apps is awesome. The ability to put all my music on it (at least off my Mac – there’s more on my PC) is cool, so I can throw out my Gen 1 iPod Nano.
But the best part for me is mobile internet. I can browse my usual sites on the go, or on my home WiFi network. I get email to me wherever I am, I get news updates, games to play, ways to track my car’s mileage and so on. Some people think it’s a nerdy, sheep-like thing (as in follow the crowd) to get an iPhone, but for me it’s about getting something that can give me the mobile access I’m after. It’s a bonus that it’s an Apple product. 
