I absolutely LOVE my BlackBerry Tour from Verizon! I use to not see the unique advantages of them but now I really do! I used to think everyone following the trend and joining the bandwaggon of smart phones were wasting their money. I used multiple features every day so I figured the easiest way to explain the advantages is to give you a day in the life of my BlackBerry.
As I sleep my phone is turned off so I don't get phone calls and my phone has a great feature that if there is an alarm set it will turn its self on when the alarm needs to go off! What a great personal shift for myself, no more annoying alarm clock beeping and the wrong time or if the power goes off making me miss class! Now I wake up every day to a peaceful ringtone helping me start off right making my limbic brain very happy.
One of my most used applications is the best technology shift! Its Pandora radio on my phone! I choose my pre created station and I get great music! I'll listen to it when I walk to class, get ready in the morning, in the car, or when I'm doing my reading homework and don't want to have my computer open.
My old cell phone use to have good photos/videos but nothing to this quality! The pictures and recorded sound for movies both comes out so much more clear and beautiful making this phone have a great aesthetic shift! The second best thing about the pictures is I can email my mom right away. I can take a picture of something I want, email the picture to my mom, and she can find it online for a better price.
My individual meaning for this phone is connivence and an easier way to stay connected with my friends and family. My mom and dad know that when they send me an email that it shows up on my cell right away, and i have the tools to reply to the email right away. Especially if its an important email.
The commercials for this phone and other smart phones now have a much stronger emotional transfer for me because I can relate to everything they talk about. At first I was nervous about the reality construction because how could someone get so much out of a phone but now i get it.
One great connivence of this phone is blogging. I wish I could say that I did this blog from my phone but I cant. However, I have a personal blog which the host site has an application for phones! I can blog from ANYWHERE! My most recent post I was walking down to church st and decided my blog need an update! When I go on a road trip with my father this summer I can keep friends and family in the loop with a blog full of stories, links, photos and videos!
My friend and I were lost on the way back to Burlington VT from my aunts house in Southern New York and we used my cellphones GPS! These types of smart phones with all this technology is expected to normally sell to rich business people or celebrities when the reality is plain folks who are always on the run because of school or work need every day things!
(Blogger is currently having trouble uploading pictures to blogs, sorry for lack of pictures)
An EXCELLENT meditation on the power of smart phones, Laura...any down sides here?
ReplyDeleteNo worries on the lack of pictures.
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