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I realized things were getting a little out of hand with my iPhone enthusiasm when a physical therapist at my appointment today asked “So how do you like your iPhone” and I, without taking a breath, responded “It’s changed my life!”

Truth is, it has! I couldn’t have given in at a better time. I needed something to get me through that last week of training, and now that I’m out in the field I would be completely lost, both figuratively and quite literally, without it. And my biggest hurdle, the cost, was rationalized because with this new HUGE territory I had to invest in a GPS anyways, so I just put the $$ towards the iPhone instead, and with Brian already on AT&T it will save us money long term to be on a family plan.

If you had asked me if I would ever get an iPhone when they first came out, I would have said absolutely not. First of all, I thought it was just an accessory, a toy if you will, that made people feel cooler about themselves because they could incorporate macs into their life even more. [Sidebar: I realized how effectively marketed I was when, the moment I picked up my iPhone, I felt instantaneously cooler. Am I that vain? I guess so. The coolness feeling has since waned, but it was pretty strong those first few days...even if all I was doing was playing solitaire.]

Another reason was the network…I have been a Verizon customer since I got my first cell phone (the Motorola StarTac…best cellphone of all time, for the record) and have often joked that I’m “Verizon for life” and would never leave. Well, apparently all it takes to lose a loyal customer is one bad business move (not partnering with apple to bring service to the iPhone) and one bad customer service person (whoever was working the day I called to say my thrice-replaced phone was not working…again. I even told them I was on the verge of switching. It doesn’t matter that I have spoken to like 50 good customer service people over the last ten years, or that I’ve been completely happy with Verizon up until the last couple months. Consumers have a very short term memory! That is a whole other blog post, but I digress…

So anyways, after several months of pleading Brian finally got his iPhone in January, and I started to think it actually did some pretty cool stuff. I was wrong. It does ALL the cool stuff. In fact, I would challenge you to find one thing (other than videos…and it will do that soon) that it can’t do! iPhones are not for super trendy metro urban people in skinny jeans…they were pretty much made for busy moms! You can do anything on the go…and with one hand!

For the most part I’ve used it for e-mail, twitter, pictures, calendar, to-do list, Googling, TONS of mapping with my new territory, and oh yeah, text messages and phone calls (sidenote: when I got it I had my e-mail and twitter set up in about 2 minutes…but it took me just as long to figure out how to make phone calls). And I will confess, I am becoming addicted to Sudoku, Freecell, Scramble and Chicktionary…I’m basically like a kid with their first nintendo…completely enamored!

So enough rambling from me. All of this to say, I thought $200 was a ridiculous price to pay for a phone. I will now eat my words (Brian thinks I should issue a public apology for months of mockery…this is as close as I’ll get!) because I actually think $200 is ridiculously reasonable for everything you get.  I hesitate to even call it a phone since that only accounts for about 25% of what I use it for! Just wait till Avery grows up…I’ve heard they can work wonders for occupying busybody toddlers, and you can’t put a price on that!