This is a post that’s quite similar in tone to James Rogers’ How Will We Feel Tomorrow post, except my today was his tomorrow. I was very nervous about purchasing an iPad earlier this year because my iPhone-MacBook combo was working so well. I knew that pictures taken on my iPhone could be easily transferred […]
" />

I’m Game for This Next iPhone, Whatever it is

Oct 4th 2011 by

This is a post that’s quite similar in tone to James Rogers’ How Will We Feel Tomorrow post, except my today was his tomorrow.

I was very nervous about purchasing an iPad earlier this year because my iPhone-MacBook combo was working so well. I knew that pictures taken on my iPhone could be easily transferred to the Mac, and that notes taken on the Mac could easily be Dropbox-ed onto my iPhone. Everything was perfectly in sync, and if it wasn’t, then there were really only two machines for me to check.

I thought the iPad would complicate this issue a little by throwing itself right between the two devices. Our own Patrick Jordan told me that his iPhone 4 is little more than a phone that makes calls now that he has a tablet, and I was spooked the same thing would happen to my aging 3GS.

However, that really hasn’t been the case. There are still things that the iPhone does, and places where the iPhone can go, that the iPad simply does not. Reading in lines, sending texts and IMs, and checking Twitter after I wake up in the morning are just a few examples. Over the last few months I’ve worked to severely limit the number of apps that I use on my 3GS so that there are fewer distractions and fewer possible ways to run out of RAM. iOS should theoretically clear RAM dynamically as I run out of it, but I’ve found that in real life use, this isn’t always the case.

So this new iPhone 4S, 5, or Kanada (nice ring to it) is going to be the device that lets me get excited about my iPhone again. It’s going to be the device with the internals that are inevitably faster, the RAM that’s inevitably remember-ier, and the camera that’s just bigger and flashier, that will allow me to use the iPhone as more than just a utility again. It will restore to me the categories of games, camera apps, and neat little utilities that were lost to me this past year, due to my 3GS just feeling slower than it was when it first came out.

I also hope that this new iPhone reaches a new plateau where devices that are older than two years can still run admirably, thanks to their new single or dual processors simply benig so damn powerful. I hit that plateau a few years ago when I built my last gaming machine (the one I still use now), and so I’m really quite excited to see what Apple unveils today…whatever the hell it is.

Continue reading:

TAGS: