I’ve never owned an Apple product in my life. I am as “PC” as you can be, so you can imagine my reluctance to venture into Steve Jobs world for the first time. But boy, am I glad I did.
What made me do it? One word, VIDEO. I’m in the video business and the iPhone 3G S “does video”. For me, that means hosting videos on the phone, not taking videos with the phone. It’s so often that I’m at a party, or networking event and people ask me what I do for a living. When I tell them I produce real estate video virtual tours, they are intrigued and want to see. I used to hand them a business card, but I know that after the initial interest of the conversation wore off, few of them ever made it to my website.
But now…… Now I can SHOW them, right then and there…. on my PHONE! It’s crystal clear, proper 16×9 format, and the audio is actually really good. It’s funny, I think they won’t be interested, and then they watch the video all the way through. If a picture is worth 1000 words, what’s a video worth? To me, it’s indispensable.
But the iPhone 3G S is about so much more. The new phone has made Twitter a reality for me. Even with TweetDeck on my laptop, I rarely made the effort to log in and see what the latest Tweets were about. But now, it’s a no brainer. I can keep up with the latest tweets, and I can tweet from anywhere. Same for Facebook.
The phone has enabled me to participate in Social Media like never before.
It has a decent camera and shoots video too – Facebook updates have never been so much fun. And the internet – the phone is light years beyond my old phone. It doesn’t just rely on the cell network for the internet. If you are anywhere near a Wi-Fi hotspot, it gives you the option of hooking in at Wi-Fi speeds, which at home and at the office (and Starbucks) is blazing fast.
You know the commercial, “yeah, we’ve got an app for that”, and it’s so true. From productivity to games to “wholly cr@p, it does THAT?” (check out Shazam). Occasionally, I have to pry it out of my wife’s hands because she’s playing Sudoku on it. And my kids ……The Fast & the Furious ….. forget-a-bout-it. “Hey – gimme back my phone, it’s NOT a toy” (snicker).
Want more? Email, weather, sports scores, stock quotes, maps with GPS, voice recognition, calculator, ipod, web browser …. I could go on and on and on, but I’ll spare you. For a busy professional, I think it’s a great tool – practically rendering your laptop obsolete.
Only one major drawback for Realtors, there’s no infrared so unlike Palm phones, this one won’t open lockboxes. That’s a major inconvenience, however, I still feel that the good far outweigh the bad for this new toy, I mean essential business device.
You can make calls on it too…… imagine that 
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