With that said, I wonder how much you were using your 3G. Like, as just a phone and an iPod? or for social media and other stuff? What firmware were you using?
I didn't own a cell phone up to that point and I had been looking at getting an iPod so it made sense to blend the two together. So, yes, it was mainly used as an iPod which I could text with and phone with. At the time, the idea of apps and all these things you could do on your phone like play movies and TV shows was very big. People were excited about stuff like Shazam and all that. That had an appeal to me as well when purchasing it but, after getting a few apps, my interest waned in that. There was just so many and it was like the 3rd party wall of shame Pro would post on here with so much junk obscuring the good plus the app shop seemed to be a mess to navigate that I just stopped bothering after a time. Plus, it just seemed I could use Safari to look up something up rather than bother with some app. Never bought any games for it because compared to what I could play on my DS, they just seemed inferior. I suppose when Super Mario Run gets released, that will be the first cell phone game I get. I'm curious to see what Nintendo does with the Mobile world of gaming yet I'm still kind of unsure if it will really be worth playing. I just don't have a high opinion of mobile games.
Don't use social media. I'm not on FaceBook or Twitter or Instagram or whatever else social media most likely consists of. Other things I will use my phone for though is the weather app. Use the calculator here and there when I need it. Taking a picture or a video here and there. I use the notes section for reminders of things I need to get done or as a shopping list when buying groceries. Used the map app for awhile but it just became faster and easier to use Safari and Google and look up addresses that way. Again, just having the internet and setting up multiple pages to stay on certain websites took the place of apps.
(Even then, I'm not a big internet user. A few years back, I moved to a new place but I didn't get the internet hooked up right away. Part of me wondered if I even needed it. I don't do a lot of internet surfing so I questioned why I was even paying for it when I could just look some stuff up on my phone (or at work
) I went 3 full months without before finally calling a company a getting it hooked. What I found is that with my Wii U, 3DS, and phone, they need the internet or an internet connection to keep updated. Plus, having an iPhone 3 probably wasn't the greatest thing for internet surfing. However, once I got the internet, I decided to make some better use out of it by letting it fill my TV needs and no longer subscribe to internet and cable. I still don't like how much the internet costs though. With tax, its $84.00 a month and I think my internet company has been slowly raising the cost over the past year so that is it at least $6.00 more than I was paying. I should look it up and double check one of these days. Since I'm not on a contract with them, I can always quit and take a cheaper offer somewhere else I suppose or maybe I should just downgrade my plan. I hardly ever come close to using the amount of data I'm allowed each month.)
Now where was I? Oh, yes! Phone usage. Yeah, aside from taking the occasional picture, texting/ checking the weather, using the alarm app (since my alarm clock died over a year ago), writing some notes to myself, occasionally using the calculator, it's mainly about playing music or doing a quick internet search for directions or some information when I'm out and about. The heaviest I used the phone was last year when I was on vacation. I was checking in on the forums and then ended up being asked to take over as host for the Safe Words game Triforce Hermit had been running. So, I did while also searching for information on things in the city I was visiting and keeping track of my plane tickets and hotel bookings. The iPhone could start to get pretty warm from some of the heavy internet usage I was putting it through. Got pretty close to using up all my phone data that month. In fact, I may have even gone over it a bit. Can't remember now. Guess the same thing happened this year while I was hosting Safe Words 10. It was taking longer than expected so I had to keep hosting it a bit while I went on vacation as well. However, I was staying out in the countryside where I couldn't get a very strong internet signal and knew that would be the case so I didn't try to use my phone much like I did last year. Usually would check in for a little bit in the morning when I got up or else when I was going to bed to keep some progress going and that was good enough for me since I was on holidays and it felt suspiciously like work.
Anyways, I feel like I've been revealing way too much about myself freely online so that's the end of my participation in this thread. I answered the original question with a no and a brief explanation why. That's good enough! Now let me be and quit hounding with your insatiable curiosity!
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