What do I use my smartphone for?
Last week, Espen asked me: “what have you used your phone for in the last seven days? Name all applications”. For most of those seven days, I was on vacation, so the usage pattern is a bit skewed. Anyway, here goes:
- Calendar — trying to schedule visits to friends.
- E-mail — offering support and receiving spam.
- SMS — duh
- Calling — yes! actually.
- Bonsai Blast — trying to fall asleep.
- Teeter — demonstrating to my uncle that, yes, it has a gyroscope.
- Seesmic — keeping abreast
- Facebook — coordinating appointments with the phoneless crowd (they still exist).
- Google Maps - figuring the shortest path back to E134 after a detour.
- Google Sky Maps — figuring out which planet was on the low evening sky (Jupiter).
- Camera — snapped some lovely faces in lovely places.
- Web browser — used wikipedia to end a dispute.
- Contacts — updated contact info for an old friend.
- Compass — almost went geocaching.
- Google Talk — some people just don’t want to SMS.
- Calculator — split the bill.
- Yellow Pages — find address info for new acquaintance.
- Market — download Compass.
- Phone Log — catch up on missed calls.
- My Tracks — documenting a detour.
As much as I find Siemens C55 to be the best phone I ever had, the HTC Magic is decidedly the greatest pocketable computer so far. These are interesting times, and I’m still alive:)
