Smartphoned!

A new iPhone!!!! Alert the media!


RantMOM got the first smartPhone in the family!!!!

RantWoman wishes to thank:

--one of the hipper of RantMom's church lady buddies for letting RantMom look at hers. Hip Church Lady Buddy got an iPhone 4 recently and is not the least bit distressed to be a version back for her equipment. RantWoman notes with interest that Hip Church Lady Buddy also got her own phone; RantWoman knows a certain number of other seniors who have smartphones because their children have made all the choices in the purchase decision and then bestowed the phone on aging parents. RantWoman notes this without further comment.

--RantMom's old phone for some kind of bubbly material problem around the charging port.

--RantMom's last audiologist who suggested that RantMom might be able to skate by for awhile longer without hearing aids that would be a stretch to afford anyway. The audiologist suggests various device amplification options, oh, and asking those wishing to speak to RantMom please to address her to her face. Oh well. RantWoman will be doing serious performance testing on the amplification options with RantMom's iPhone, but RantMom so far seems excited.

--The Verizon salesman at a certain mall. At least RantWoman assumes, not having spoken to RantMom, it a salesMAN. Go Guy! RantWoman would be THRILLED to learn that brilliant explanations have already answered all of RantMom's questions; RantWoman is VERY glad at least the device has enough accessibility features so that RantWoman can help poke around and find things!



Rant Sister quibbles:

--Little Sister objects that RantMom's phone is WHITE with a purple cover. Little sister frets that white will become dirty and dingy quickly. RantWoman would be willing to observe and to look for directions about how to wipe off the surface.

--RantWoman has not quizzed RantMom about contract terms. RantMom seems pleased so far and RantWoman has more than enough opaque prose in her life without trying to screen the opaque prose coming to RantMom's life. But RantWoman admits to certaindithers about dollar implications lurking in the opaque prose.

--RantMom seems not even to have interacted with the question of phone company metadata and the National Security Agency and whether one vendor is likely to be too much different from another. Look, okay, RantMom lives in a world where God probably already reads her email and certainly the stuff she gets from her kids. The NSA would certainly be a little less than God. RantWoman herself admits to being a little in the "But it's metadata; you cannot run a phone network without it byt OF COURSE we need to be accountable and responsible" camp. Plus, as long as RantMom has the data plan anyway, RantWoman can help RantMom sign up for any number of daily messages from God as delivered by a variety of voices.
So, to RantMom's iPhone, welcome to the family!