Making that $90/month to AT&T count
If you have an iPhone, you know that we privileged folk pay a steep monthly rental to grace our lives with it.
Well, you better make sure you get your moneys worth.
Unfortunately, I know too many people that don't know how to use their iPhone (most don't even know how to set up e-mail). Firstly, don't buy one if you don't know how to use it. I don't care if its a status symbol, its 'cool' or you like touching/licking glass. If you need to buy one, buy it for someone who actually knows how to use it. I beg you. More on this later.
Now, back to taking full advantage of your iPhone plan. Three sectors : Data, Voice, Text.
Data is (for me) by far the easiest to gnaw on. I have consumed nearly a gig of bandwidth on my phone in the past six months. The easiest way to do it? Use your bloody phone. Mail, Twitter, it isn't hard at all. You know it can browse the web too? But seriously, if you really want to spike your data usage, get Pandora, Last.fm, Google Earth, NetNewsWire (although I can't wait for NewsFire for the iPhone), all are pretty demanding apps that will burn those megabytes in minutes. But wait, you shouldn't be using them just because that means you're getting your moneys worth, you should be using them because heck, they're friggin' amazing things only an iPhone can do (well, fine, the RSS reading isn't an exclusive, but still)
Voice. Now you can do it the boring way by calling people, or you can have some fun with it. Actually, voice and text can be easily wasted away with two fantastic services you might forget about when you will need them most.
Cha Cha answers questions. Literally. Call or text, ask, and they'll send you an answer. Any question (answered by humans, by the way). It works really well, and take it for a spin just for fun.
GOOG-411 is your USA-directory on the go. Voice recognition can be a bit awry if you don't have an American accent but it works pretty well if you talk slow and clear. Find businesses, pizza, staplers, whatever, and Google will connect you.
Two other ways to use up text messages, and pretty obvious ones, Twitter / Posterous.
Seriously, if you're reading my posterous, and don't know what posterous is... well, I forgive you. But Twitter, you must know of (why aren't you on it? Are you not cool? Facebook isn't cool anymore you know)
If you are an iPhone user, but don't know how to use it, don't worry, its totally fine, I wrote up a fantastic guide just for you.
