The Power of a Mobile Phone

The Power Of A Mobile Phone

I’ve been using my iPhone for a while but I’ve only been using it for a few days. I’ve been in contact with Amy via Skype and text message. On the phone, I’m using her voice to type and to make phone calls. This works great, but there are a few things that are bugging me.

The first is that I can’t figure out how to do text messaging on my iPhone the way Amy does it. I’ve tried with two different brands of phones and got the same selenium dialing experience. I’ve tried with different SIM cards and tried with different carriers. I’ve tried with different carriers and different SIM cards from different manufacturers. I’ve tried on both Sprint and US Cellular. And I’ve tried with Verizon Wireless, but I’d rather not deal with Verizon Wireless overages.

Next up is that I can’t figure out how to do voice and text messaging on my iPhone in the same way that Amy does it. I’m using a 4G-only iPhone (iPhone 3G or 3GS) and I’m having issues getting WiFi connected to my house. Verizon has a particularly hard time with this – it’s stuck on Sprint 1.0 on the Sprint network.

After scouring the web for answers, I found a post from Ron Rivlin titled The End of Real Time. Ron’s a long time friend (I’ve known him for a while) and one of the guys behind Blogger’s Mobile that I’m an investor in. Ron is writing a book called The Last Quarter and thinks that the best book of the year is The End of Real Time: The Physics of Your Mobile Phone. If you are a mobile phone user, I’d love to hear your rant on this.