But now we've joined the 21st Century- with an iPhone, yes - there is no excuse for poor communications, is there?
The iPhone has instantly become my obsession and I can entirely appreciate now why their owners (much like hunting dogs) sit incapacitated with their noses to the screen: "What might happen if I look away?"
The obvious would seem that some scally, within that frighteningly small pause you grant your eyes, might might just seek to thieve it. But more than likely there will be nothing of much worth to report. Your friend Brian might've sent you a Facebook wall post, calling you a wanker for looking at your iPhone while you're both in the pub... The irony being that the douchebag we've called Brian is in fact using his inferior handset to slowly access Facebook to let you know his thoughts over the same said pints. I would ask anyone on my Facebook to politely let me know should my iPhone gazing prove just as deadly to the spirit of conversation; only I've declined the push notifications because I could give a toss if Rosie has genital scarring from Imacq or if Tim bought Grant a cow on Farmville. I aspire to use my boost in world spanning technology to broaden my mind, not insulate it further.
Having said all this I'm in the first throes of my iPhone affair and am consequently chuffed to bits to be able to sit in bed and tap-a-tap all this nonsense through to the web. But there are some more worthwhile items to tell you about; oh yes, the apps!
Like any work-shy, news hungry journalist the first apps I desired were, well, newsy. The Independent was free so hooray we eagerly gobbled that, then came the obligatory Guardian app - where even the icon is a design wonder. MusicWeek was a must for me, getting actual, authoritative news on music for FREE! big joy.
Best of all though, and forgive any potential bias, is the Spinner app for iPhone. You can download their tracks of the day for free and the list stems a good few finger wafts. The images are great and the info bitesized. They are also (chest inflatingly) much further advanced in the tech department to be meeting the needs of their audience, where the NME can only boast a 59p portal for its all-too-infrequently good radio station.
Further investigation will no doubt ensue into these 'apps', but in the meantime I'm going to challenge my phone to make me a cocktail out of left over rum, vodka, milk and lucozade...
Emily Kendrick
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