iphone

i tried to post from my iphone last night, in my excitement about the whole thing, but it wouldn't let me move my cursor into the text box.  i got so far as to make the title.

then, this afternoon, i was studying at starbucks (i'm not sure what all the hype about that place is; i do like their chai tea latte, though.  hot, please.) and took a break to see if i could get it to work.  i got the cursor in the text box, but it was stuck in caps lock.  i had to hit the caps lock button off before every letter.  real efficient, let me tell you.  then i hit publish post, and when i looked at my home page, all that came up was the title.  after all that?!  i gave up.

and here i am, typing, efficiently and in lovely all lower case letters...from my computer.  but i'm still totally infatuated with my new toy.  now if i could just figure out how to use it.


the boring details: Ro and i took the plunge and both got iphones yesterday.  on the family plan.  yeah, whoa.  normally calls are free between softbank users until 9pm (and after 1am), but on the family plan, they're free 24 hours a day.  if 2 or more people join at the same time, family plan or not, you get a discount (5 months with no "basic service fee," which is 980yen a month).  and, we both have other phones and neither of us were sure if we were ready to completely give up those phones for the iphone (yeah, i know, spoiled rotten...) but, if we like the iphone enough, we plan on giving up our other phones.  in which case, we can get another 5 months under softbank's current "norikae campaign" (aka softbank's scheme to get people to not only buy softbank, but make it their main phone, since lots of people these days seem to have multiple phones) 

even with the discounts, it's still a big investment, and for all my griping about not having money right now, i can't believe i actually just bought a new fancy pants phone, but spread the payments out over 24 months and it doesn't seem so bad...right?  i don't usually make a lot of phone calls, and i can access the internet from my phone (which opens up some serious skype-ing possibilities, once i figure out how!  also, i can use my phone when i'm abroad to send text messages and the internet, if i'm in a free wi-fi area, which we have at my house in ohio...woohoo!) so i'm fairly sure i won't just be putting my old phone on the cheapest plan, but will most likely just getting rid of it altogether.  we'll see...! 

now, off to put some of my itunes music on my phone (convenient since my ipod has been on the fritz for several months now...)