I-phoned !

After years of resisting the smartphone charm & successfully ignoring all the blackberrys, iphones & droids out there, I finally gave in this past weekend - and that makes it totally blog-worthy, especially after a long hiatus! It all happened with such amazing randomness & haste that it I’m still in the can’t-believe-I-have-one phase..:)
So we were returning from Gloucester on Saturday evening & wondering if we should stop for coffee before hitting home, when Abhi randomly blurted ‘Want to go get your Iphone?’ That was really a no-brainer—Coffee or Iphone ?! I pounced on the opportunity. For context sake, I have to confess I had been cribbing for the past few months about the lack of internet access on the road. And yet, we decided to go on without a smartphone- firstly because we successfully HAD for so long, and secondly, because we already had a contract & you have to be ‘eligible’ for one of these smartphones & even then they can be just a tad ‘pricey’! So well, we had been officially ‘eligible’ for a few weeks & my cribbing had accelerated to a constant nag, which is why I suspect Abhi made the surprise offer. In a matter of minutes we were at the glitzy, glassy Apple store in Back Bay. Now I thought, I was way way behind in catching on to the Iphone fad, but when I was told to patiently stand in a line that wrapped around half the store floor to get my Iphone, I realized the mania was still very much ON. We waited patiently for almost an hour before a sneaker-shorts-clad dude whisked us away & brought out the Iphone 4 packed neatly in its tiny little box. My excitement level was on the rise and only grew higher when he executed the entire transaction including swiping my credit card right on his I-phone. However one might feel about Apple, you have to give it to them on the coolness factor! As my battered Sony phone of the last 3 years breathed its last moments, it did pose a striking contrast to the flashy new replacement. Oh well! 
So have I been totally consumed by the Iphone the past 3 days ? Both yes & no..Let me explain-Sunday was spent in making a phone case (check out the snaps!)—so while it was all meant for the Iphone, my time was actually consumed on the sewing machine. I have yet to figure out my way around a lot of things..but the apps are definitely cool—so cool that I missed my subway stop for only the second time in 3-years coz I was busy exploring (the first time I had dozed off in the T!). I love the graphics – still have to figure out typing :(..which is why the blog’s happening on the laptop. I do know though -  ‘There’s an app for that !’