Re: have the iboaters went for the smart phones
Not being a smart ankles but, why? I mean do you need all that or is it just a case of "I like gedgets"? How did you manage to get through life before they were available? Just trying to understand how people justify the never ending monthly costs for a gee whiz gadget.
(Then again, I am the guy with On Star and XM radio in my car but see no reason to pay a monthy fee for either.)
Just like everyhting else.
why use an air impact tool, when you have a lug wrench? You can probably get where you are going with a road map.
Most people who use smart phones, look at them as tools, not gadgets.
Pay phones are long gone and so are the phone books, so where do you search for a phone number? Call directory assistance and pay nearly $1 for a phone number. With a SP, you can search for businesses nationwide, or a block away. Get the address and phone no, which you can instantly dial. Click on the map and get turn-by-turn directions to the business.
As a truck driver, I can instantly pull up radar weather, maps and forecasts, for my current location, or down the road. I can find nearly every street address in the U.S., impossible to do with a printed road map. Since I cannot legally use a radar dector, I use trapster, to inform me of known speed trap locations.
I set appointments in the MS Outlook calendar on my desktop, sync with the iphone and send appointment copy to my wifes phone, for her to add to her calendar. I get beeping reminders 2 and 1 day before an important event.
My memory is going, so I use iphone to store farm info, including needed tire sizes, for what vehicles, maintenace info, animal information, etc. Al of it is stored on one device. I use it at acutions to look up what an item is selling for elswhere.
The Lewis and Clark expedition, purchased the very best of everything technological, of that time. Would they have wanted a smart phone with GPS?
Of course they would.
