Mommy's first Smartphone

[beth_leonard]

I have finally joined the land of the living and purchased a smartphone to replace the iPod touch/$6 per month flip phone combo I had been using. "Why," you ask?

In part, because I lost my old phone somewhere in the house, and in part because now that Apple has unlocked the iPhones I can now get a $15/month plan as part of my parents' family plan. For that monthly price, it's worth it. I couldn't justify spending $70/month for services I almost never use.

Now hopefully I'll stop losing my phone because it will fit in my beltclip where I've never lost my iPod touch. It will also be much easier to text now that I have somewhat of a keyboard.

Does the iPhone have a swipy mode like the Android devices? The auto correct isn't very good yet.

--Beth
[posted from my iPhone]

EDIT TO ADD: It appears that although it says it has one dot worth of signal at the house, it doesn't actually appear to have enough signal to have a phone conversation, and texts may or may not be delivered. :-( So if you want to contact me, your best bet is still to call our home line or send e-mail, as always.

Comments

[dmorr.livejournal.com]

Swype keyboards are available on iOS: http://www.swype.com/product-features/ios/features.html

Texts are so low bandwidth that my guess is that they will almost always get through.

[jon-leonard.livejournal.com]

Texts are certainly better at getting through than phone calls, but last night's experimentation (my phone was the destination) indicates that texts, on AT&T cells, in our house, are quite unreliable.

Turning on wifi calling improves things immensely. Text messages still aren't 100% in that case, but certainly most-of-the-time.

[helencoleman.livejournal.com]

It will learn your mistyped words pretty accurately very soon. It used to guess wrong all the time, and now it guesses right most of the time. What is a swipey mode? Maybe it doesn't have it. But it does have voice dictating. I haven't done that yet, as I don't want everybody listening to what I'm typing.