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Okay so I had been contemplating a PDA for a while. I needed a phone where I could get email and schedule meetings on the fly. I am THAT important. Not really, but while I would cherish the serenity of being out of the office I also feared returning to my inbox. It was causing anxiety and I was constantly missing meetings, I just couldn’t keep it all in my head anymore.
But even with all that I figured I could wait a bit to buy a PDA. And then one week before the most enormous, stressful, insane, exhilarating event of my entire work calendar onething I found myself frantically looking for my cell phone in my room. I slapped my forehead and starting spewing expletives took a deep breathe and ran downstairs, and fished my really very functional and fabulous phone out of my washing machine. DOH.
Thankfully, as I was still not ready to commit to PDA living, I keep a back up phone, I switched out sim cards (gotta love those things) and went on my way. This back up phone was truly crappy, truly. But I needed to do some serious research before I ventured into PDA world.
The obvious choice for me was an iPhone, wildly popular and highly praised, most bugs had been worked out, and I was already an At&T customer.
One hesitation remained, I use a PC, I use outlook, I have never owned a Mac. My PC user status is realistically not changing, it’s a work thing, it’s just not practical for me.
Scouring the internet I tried to figure out if an iPhone would work with clunky PC technology. Differing reports everywhere, some people declaring total integration failure, Apple claiming complete compatibility.
I decided, knowing no PC users personally who were on the iPhone, that it was worth trying. With a bit of fear, I trekked to the Apple store and bought one. Threw caution to the wind, the Crackberry simply would not suffice when it came to my PDA needs.
I had been entering all my phone contacts into Outlook for a month in hope that I would choose the iPhone. I plugged my gorgeous new phone into my laptop, using the ubiquitous Apple USB jack (i heart apple), and few clicks later I was on my new phone. All my contacts were perfectly loaded, my entire Outlook calendar was now in my phone. Whew.
Next morning I marched into the IT office and they worked their magic and poof… email, my work outlook email, in my phone. In truth this took a bit of finagling, not fully bug proof, but it was successfully working in less than an hour.
And just like that love blossomed, I cannot go back to my “other” non-iPhone life. I have burned the bridges, I’ve moved on, I’ve moved up, I’m living the future here people.
Part two: Living la iPhone Loco will be a more official review, with all the pros and the few cons of iPhone ownership, from a PC users perspective.
