Posted on 03/22/2008 5:06:46 PM PDT by John Jorsett
When she whipped out her iPhone, Erica Sadum could feel her husband's eyes roll. But she had a point to prove. And in less than a minute, she was able to report to the skeptics around the dinner table that Menno Simons, whose followers are known as Mennonites, was in fact born in 1496.
Apple Inc.'s iPhone, which went on sale nine months ago, isn't the only so-called smart phone that provides itinerant access to the Web. But its wide screen and top-quality browser make it easy to use and read, which means it can in seconds change a lighthearted conversation into the Pursuit of Truth.
"It's turned me from a really annoying know-it-all into an incredibly annoying know-it-all, with the Internet to back me up," said Sadum, a technology writer in Denver. "It's not a social advantage."
New technology always brings new habits with it, some of them unpopular. The mobile handset took phone calls into the streets and the BlackBerry created a generation of thumb-typing e-mail addicts. Some smart phones hook their owners up to facts and figures that ordinary people pull off the Internet with a proper computer.
As USC student and iPhoner Cliff Smith put it, "I have the ability to clear up any confusion."
Fewer than 1% of the 219 million cellphones in the U.S. are iPhones, according to M:Metrics. (One possible reason: An iPhone costs about $400.) That hasn't been enough to trigger a broader boom of Internet browsing on hand-held gadgets. The percentage of U.S. mobile phone users surfing the Internet over the last year has stayed flat at 13%, M:Metrics found.
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I’ve always thought Apple users were know-it-alls. :-)
Yeah. And people who use cell phones while driving are complete morons. I wonder which is worse...using an iPhone to be a know it all or yakking on a cell phone while you T-Bone another vehicle.
“It’s turned me from a really annoying know-it-all into an incredibly annoying know-it-all, with the Internet to back me up,” said Sadum, a technology writer in Denver. “It’s not a social advantage.”
Remind me to leave her off of the “Invite” list for my next Dinner Party. People like this irritate me to no end...so I married one, LOL!
My phone can connect to the Internet and it’s not an iPhone. Does that make me as smart as these people? ;-)
Just throw it against the wall and say ........Oh Yeah ?
>>>Just throw it against the wall and say ........Oh Yeah ?
Or tell them to point their iPhone to the audio stream of WGAS...as in Who Gives A S*** :)
I use my Dell Axim to do that all the time.. Guess I should start talking into it. Oh, wait, I do, with Skype.
I have a Voyager that can connect to the internet but, I prefer not too. Way too much lurking Free Republic as it is.
People who think they know everything annoy the crap out of those of us who really do,
LOL.....Indeed !!
I told such a person at work that will just will not shut up .........Oh Yeah , I read about that on whogivesadamn.com !
It got a giggle from the crowd and less yap from our local human 24/7 news service !
What an incredibly lame article.
In that case, they better ban the thing in Hollywood. Wouldn’t want all of those Scientologists scrutinizing something actually associated with science. What they don’t get from their cult, they can get from Al Gore....(remember him, D’s in science?)
No. You are not as smart as these people. You did not demand an iProduct.
I personally use the bluetooth speakerphone built into my car.....
I would never use the phone in a handheld mode and drive....
BTW, if your car doesn’t have bluetooh capability, a bluetooth headset can be purchased for as low as $30...
I don’t need no stinking iPhone to tell me I am smarter than most of those around me. I learned all I need to know here on FreeRepublic.com.
So can mine. And it's three years old, but I never use it to access the net.
First, it's slow. Entering any info, even a URL, is a pain in the butt. And, I get charged for it. That's the part I hate.
At work it's a T1 connection, at home a slow cable connection administered by toothless hillbillies from South Carolina. Both are better than trying to interact via a postage stamp sized screen on a cell phone.
I like the Axim for around the house when I’m not at the ‘puter. Out of the house the Treo works just dandy for keeping up with the Freepers. I jot my wife a video Ipod and trying to use it on the Free Republic or any web site is the pits. It can not render a page in a single column format, too much zooming and moving about. I can’t believe anyone likes it.
Hey Coyote, how ‘bout knocking off the religious intolerance, eh? Thanks — a fellow FReeper and Scientologist.
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