Not Your Typical IT Guys

I have to admit…I have been apprehensive of the touchscreen on the iPhone.  I just wasn’t feeling the comparable typing speed that I could achieve on my Blackberry.  However, I have just discovered… I was wrong wrong wrong.  Typing is a breeze once you are comfortable with it… that being said, even if you weren’t comfortable with typing, it would be well worth the pain.  The iPhone is by far one of the sweetest pieces of electronics ever created!

After I got my new iPhone 3GS, compliments of a lot of hard work from Nick at the Bel Air AT&T store, I quickly jumped in downloaded many of the most popular apps and went to town.  However, my iPhone wasn’t complete until I downloaded the new Citrix XenApp Receiver for the iPhone.  Bottom line, via the HSI TruCloud™ infrastructure I can now pull up any application I want on my phone. Yes, that means Office 2007, Sage Act, QuickBooks, and any other application of choice right on my phone!  I know what you are thinking already, “There is no way it is useful on a little screen.”  Well thanks to the cool gestures that are native to the iPhone for zooming and panning you can legitimately work off your iPhone.  OK, your not going to create a huge spreadsheet on a 3.5″ display.  But you can absolutely pull up a QuickBooks file, a Tax Return, a spreadsheet in Excel 2007 or any other app that is running in your network  and review it or take a quick look to answer a question you have while away from your laptop.  It is amazing!!  Keep your eye out for some video that I will post as soon as I can get it together.

And a final “Deep Thought (for you SNL buffs out there)”, if the iPhone had existed for MacGyver, would he have been that much cooler than the rest of us or would he have just been just an average guy with a iPhone??

Anyone else using the BlackBerry Bold with AT&T?!?

First, before I rant…I love the phone, its clean, great screen, decent battery, and 3G.

Moving on…I get “Call Failed” close to a dozen times per day.  We have reported to AT&T and the reaction is, “Hmmm, that’s odd.”  Well I can tell you this much, I did a Google search using the keywords “Call Failed” Blackberry Bold…20,300 hits all complaining about this same issue.  Not so unique.

Daniel has now had 3 BB Bolds to try to address the issue and no luck.  We get failed calls in Baltimore, Bel Air, Pennsylvania, driving on 95, and even in Las Vegas.  So there is no blaming the towers in any one location.  This is a device issue with the AT&T network.

Please anyone else out there having issues…have you found a resolution?  I’m dying here!

OK…off to the AT&T store to get a new SIM card……………………….