Countdown, 17 Days: Phone-Free
It’s pretty much every day that I check email, watch TV, read a book, flip through the newspaper, eat breakfast.
It’s not every day I make a phone call, or send an SMS. It’s not every day that I use my phone, and yesterday, the rainiest day in recent memory here in San Francisco, was such a day. I dismounted the G1 from my laptop when I ran a few errands, but had no need to use it. I left the ringer up, on the off chance someone would call me, but in a rough approximation of the kids these days who reportedly forsake email for Facebook, I don’t use the phone anywhere near as much as I use email, so the chance of calls was minimal. What few calls I made, being at home, were on the home line.
However, I did interact with the G1. It beeped early in the morning, to remind me that concert tickets I was interested in went on sale at 10am (that was truly convenient; the ticket seller’s convenience charge was exorbitant), and I did a little more scheduling in Google Calendar. And I spent some time in Google Contacts, cleaning up the 800 or so entries that had ended up in there, less as a matter of house-cleaning, and more as an exercise in using that tool. It’s a good system, but at least yesterday, the browser held for a long time after each change.
Meanwhile, there’s a massive mobile phone event occurring in Barcelona, and I keep my eye on engadgetmobile.com and other resources, to see what’s coming next.
