I finally broke down and decided to get an iPhone… I have held off on this purchase because I did not want to have to sign a 2 year contract with AT&T. I did not want to pay for what is supposedly a 3G network when 3G is not even available in Eastern North Carolina.

Well, I now have an iPhone but I do not use AT&T. I purchased a used iPhone, jailbroke & unlocked it, and I am headed to T-Mobile. I can get unlimited data, talk & text for nearly half the monthly cost of a comparable plan on AT&T. I will not be on a 3G network in Eastern NC, but I wouldn’t have been had I decided to go with AT&T, either.

Although I am one of those “computer geeks”, I have always been one of those type people who want a cell phone to be a PHONE. I hate text messages with a passion and the truly terrible web browsing experience on Windows Mobile devices & Blackberry phones is enough to make a person toss that “smart phone” out the window.

The iPhone changed all that, and there is no need to go into the praise in this blog post. The entire world has showered enough praise on this phone already, and once again Apple has completely changed an entire industry within a few short years.

Their claim of “there’s an app for that” is most definitely true in nearly all aspects, though. Whether I am checking sales & advertising statistics, waving my lightsaber app at my friends or doing a quick tune on one of my guitars, its literally amazing the power of this “phone”. Many of the most useful apps are for checking various websites such as eBay, FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, Google and others. Many times its actually quicker to open the iPhone app for a certain website (or company) than it is to get on the computer and pull it up through a regular browser.

Steve Jobs is a God amongst the insects crawling around in this world with their day to day lives… I hope that his health allows him to live long enough to change even more industries.