| Rich IPhone Software is key to freedom from | | | | By simply opening up the integrated browser on |
| wires! | | | | the IPhone we are granted the freedom to |
| The year 2007 ended with the release of a | | | | browse, download and exchange data without |
| device that is in the process of changing the way | | | | wires! |
| we view our communication abilities. Recently I | | | | It stands to reason then that even though we |
| have been promoting some iPhone download | | | | have all these high tech wireless devices coming |
| services for the many new iPhone users out | | | | out on the market that will end the need for us |
| there. These services offer unlimited downloads | | | | to even have a computer hooked to a telephone |
| for a one time fee. I have received some great | | | | line once and for all it will be some time until we |
| feedback regarding the users of these services. | | | | can as a society shake from our brains that we |
| However, as with any new technology there are | | | | actually need wires to communicate. That a |
| those whom (myself included) need a little extra | | | | mobile device no longer has to be connected to a |
| time to wrap they're mind around what they are | | | | PC for some of it's functionality. Blue-tooth is an |
| using. | | | | amazing protocol that has helped to revolutionize |
| I received an email from a customer who | | | | the way our gadgets interact. A very good |
| purchased one of these download services asking | | | | example of what I'm talking about just happened |
| me if I could help him. It seems that he | | | | recently: |
| subscribed to the service but was unable to | | | | I was in the process of making a video |
| download any software or music to his new | | | | presentation on my laptop when my microphone |
| iPhone. After a brief email exchange I asked him | | | | headset went out. This is a legacy headset that |
| if he was actually trying to download from his | | | | has a 1/8th microphone jack that simply plugs |
| iPhone or from an external PC. As you might | | | | into the audio input on my laptop. I was frantic as |
| guess he was trying to transfer files from his PC | | | | I had this video to make and no sound input. I |
| to his iPhone using the download service. I | | | | tried for an hour to fix the microphone by |
| explained that he doesn't need to use a PC to get | | | | rewiring with no luck. Then after about 2 hours it |
| software on his iPhone instead, he can simply | | | | hit me that I could use my blue-tooth headset as |
| browse to the download service with his iPhone | | | | a audio input on my laptop thanks to it's |
| and start downloading away.Once this was | | | | integrated blue-tooth capability. Now some of you |
| understood everything was working perfectly! | | | | might be going "well duH!" but for me since I |
| So your asking what's the point here? The point is | | | | haven't used my blue-tooth devices for my laptop |
| with it being 2008 we still are living by a cabled | | | | before and only for my cellphone this was |
| mentality with regards to our communication | | | | something new. But it's a good example of how |
| abilities. Many of us still have landlines in our | | | | ingrained the "wired" concept is in our heads. I |
| homes, and most of us grew up with at least one | | | | wasn't thinking at the time how I could maybe go |
| land-line in our home regardless if we had | | | | out and pick up the latest and greatest wireless |
| cellphones as well. This will not be the case for the | | | | microphone. Instead I was thinking about where I |
| current and upcoming generation. Devices like the | | | | could go to get an old legacy microphone that |
| iPhone make it possible for us to do whatever we | | | | was exactly like the one I had! |
| need to do online without wires. Even with Cell | | | | So the moral to this story is to start thinking |
| phones having Internet capability for full | | | | outside the box and how we can further detach |
| functionality in the past we simply piggybacked | | | | ourselves from the wired networks. The more |
| our laptops on top of our cellphone Internet | | | | detached we are, the more mobile we are and, |
| connection. With mobile devices like the IPhone | | | | the more mobile we are the more free we are! |
| we no longer need to do so. In fact, we don't | | | | To you and your new year! |
| need any special cables or wires to do so either. | | | | |