28 September 2012

My Week With Marilyn, i mean my week with the iPhone 5

Greetings all,
This is my first smart phone ever, the iPhone 5, so i'm loving my new toy.  I have signed up to Instagram, i've actually let out some Tweets & had all sorts of things linked to Pinterest & Facebook automatically.  I have downloaded Apps, APPS!!  No games, i loathe children playing with screens, they should be kicking a ball or climbing a tree!!
Unlike the 7000 people who queued at Apple Canberra last Friday, my husband wandered in on Saturday morning, straight to the counter . . . to drag me into the 21st century of technology.  We bought it for a few reasons, mainly the video camera & my enthusiasm for social media.  My children enjoy leaving me notes & quirky reminders.  It's on my existing $20 plan, with zero data allowance outside the home WiFi, so far that's fine, i really do use the phone as . . . a phone!!  I'd rather email from the Mac desktop, with a life size keyboard, i just fixed my wrists with surgery, poking at a tiny phone pad is ridiculous!!
All accessories sold out immediately, so i was a nervous wreck taking the phone out & about, until i popped along mid week to buy him a leather jacket & screen shade, cool yo?? 
This week i really did hire the My Week With Marilyn movie, oh what a messed up gal she was.  So glamorous & popular, yet insecure & lonely.  A beautifully shot film, especially loved the English countryside & Eton School.  I wonder what mischief & trouble Marilyn Monroe would have created on social media??  Sigh, i digress . . .
so now there are a zillion other ways to get images & snippets of my world . . .
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OMG, i've even gone & got myself a Quick Response bar code, i Robot.  Tania McCartney is a new smart phone girl too, she understands technology & social media ten times better & faster than me, so does the research & just links me to what i need to know.  Everyone needs a guru girlfriend who explains in motherly terms what you want, not geek speak.  Seriously folks, scan me . . .
Did you get the new iPhone 5 or can you still love last year's model??  I'm still laughing at the iPhone 5 launch - talking about the camera "the sea is bluer & children look happier!!"  I admit the camera is marvellous.  How much technology & social media can one person handle??  I'm a tad freaked about the price but i've never lost a mobile phone - i've had one stolen in Italy, now living at the bottom of a canal in Venice i guess.  I will be very happy with this phone for a long long time.  Love Posie

17 comments:

TexWisGirl said...

i have a samsung galaxy model that's a year old. it was cheaper than an iphone but i really like the camera and the access i have to emails/comments. :)

Nikki @ Styling You said...

Got mine on Monday - and my two teens got their first smartphone too. I had the 4 but loving this one!

Polly said...

I love my iPhone, it still works fine so I see no need to replace it just because.

Tania McCartney said...

And you teach ME so much, my friend! So lovely to be barcoded together. xx

Sophie Slim said...

Welcome to 2012!!!

My husband is a mega tech geek, he's hanging out for one of these (he has a previous one), and we're saving every little penny we have so we dont blow our (miserble) savings.

But thats okay. Its what he wants, and he doesn't ask for anything else.

I'm going to get his old iphone, i'll be thrilled!!! never had something so fancy! I'm going to join instagram too!! (eventually)

x

Nancy said...
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Nancy said...

I love my I phone 4 - I got it last summer after my 19 yo daughter suggested that it would be wasted on me. I love a challenge. Mind you I earned that comment when I endlessly get her to fix my computer.

I have loved the phone especially after I broke my left wrist playing soccer. Yes I know that soccer is played with the feet not the hands.

Best part of my I phone is playing scrabble with my 22 yo who goes to school in Boston. A quick word and a short text and I know everything is right.

Mother Down Under said...

I still have my iPhone 3...and waiting for the craziness to die down before I go out and get the iPhone 5.
And I think I might need a tech lesson before I use it...I have no idea what that bar code thing you posted is all about!

posie blogs Jennie McClelland said...

Tee hee, the bar code thing is a quick scan (via your smart phone scan app) to lead you to ALL my contact & information on social media etc. To clever. Might i suggest the round dots?? Love Posie

mel @ loved handmade said...

Exciting! I only just got my iPhone earlier this year, mainly for the camera & Instagram, fun !

Nat - Muddy Farmwife said...

Oh, how exciting. I've got an iPhone and it very quickly became indispensable. From shopping lists to Instagram to just being a phone I can use on the car's Bluetooth. I do really love it!
Enjoy!!!

Mum on the Run said...

You are seriously tech-o-nogical now!!
:-) xx

Jane said...

You really make me chuckle, Jennie. My little present arrived today. I just can't work out how to open the SIM tray! *Sigh*. I wanted to play with it tonight ☺. J x

Anne said...

I still have an old Nokia and I must get a smart phone one of these days!

Wedding dresses said...

I really wish I hadn’t seen this as I really want one now!

Amanda said...

I have an old style mobile still, a Nokia :( which I use purely as a phone. However, I'm desperate to get an iPhone, simply so I can use Instagram. I don't really need the Internet etc. as I prefer to use a computer at home and don't have time to use the Internet when I'm out and about as I had two littlies. So basically, I just want it for the camera... and therefore, at the moment, I can't really justify the pricetag simply for me to join Instagram. I too am on a cheap $20 plan but you've got me thinking now that you shared you've kept your same plan and can just use your wireless at home... clever thinking x

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