Monday, April 26, 2010

iPad purchased!

Well, after being a hardcore PC user for many years, and even writing over 40 books about Microsoft products such as Mastering Windows (Sybex) and Using Windows (Que) (you can search by name, Robert Cowart, on Amazon), I've had an epiphany of sorts.  About a year ago I bought an iPhone.  After using Windows Mobile phones for five years or so, and being all converged and everything with Windows and Outlook, I finally decided to take the plunge and try an Apple product. Although I have had some complaints about the iPhone 3GS, such as its lame voice recognition (when it comes to dialing the phone, it doesn't tell you who is calling in, it doesn't announce in your blue tooth headset when you have an appointment and what the appointment is; you can't press a button on your blue tooth headset and ask it what time it is; and stuff like this -- all of which Windows Mobile does), I love it. True enough,  Windows Mobile has portable Microsoft Word, Excel; works with an external bluetooth keyboard that I can fold up in my pocket etc.  Nonetheless, I was so impressed by the slickness of the user interface on the iPhone that I ditched my trusty Verizon Windows Mobile Samsung i760, and succumbed to paltry ATT service also known as "Call Failed."