BrokenLogic

So my pass time for summer session registration was this morning. Being the absentminded person that I am, I didn’t realize this until about half an hour after the specified time, when I was no longer anywhere near a computer with internet access. Knowing that by the time I could be, my classes may very well have been filled up by registrants from the next pass, I busted out the iPhone. Navigated to my student account, and… boom, there was some error blocking my registration. No time to waste. Quickly Googled the contact info for the registrar’s office, hit the autolinked phone number, and was on the line with someone who fixed the issue within minutes. Hung up, went back, and finished registering successfully.

All while on the bus.

The iPhone has also, on at least three separate occasions, saved me from waiting several hours in line for the Davis-Berkeley shuttle by allowing me to pick up reservations dropped at the last minute, at which time anyone without a reservation would be standing in said line, inconveniently (for the iPhone-less) outside of WiFi coverage.

I’m sure people who have not experienced the joy of owning an iPhone watch those saves-the-day type testimonial ads and think “that’s nice, but how often does something like that happen?” As an iPhone owner, let me assure you that it happens quite often, and every time it does, it is pretty much awesome, and you are all “I am living in the twenty-first century.” And I don’t even have 3G or GPS or [insert missing killer feature of choice].

Man, I can’t wait for the 2.0 software upgrade next month.