What else do you use your iPhone besides calls?

[Zuujit]

Curious to see what features of the iPhone are most used (besides the basic phone function)...and why...

 

[iMandi]

I think that this will be a really good topic! Could teach some of us iPhone dummies more to do with our iPhones.

I use mine for just about everything, emails, research, FB, keeping up with birthdays and appointments, and of course taking pics of everything that catches my eye.

Why? Cause it's everything I need and want right in the palm of my hand!!

 

[JohnH59]

Just a few:

Read, create, edit documents with Docs to Go
Keep checkbook with Splashmoney
Keep track of passwords and accounts with eWallet
Keep push email with Exchange account
Notes are in sync with Outlook Notes via iMNotes
Keep track of a variety of notes with Evernote
Update my Netflix queue with iPhlix
Check out current movies with Flixster
Read books with Kindle and B&N Reader app
Current new with AP Mobile
Listen to online music with XM app, Pandora, Stitcher
Watch my TV shows from home with SlingPlayer
GPS navigation with Navigon
Track weather

 

[lungho]

RDP........why travel 50 to a 100 miles on your day off when you can fix it remotely?

GPS Navigation always comes in handy in unfamiliar surroundings.

eMail....keep waiting for them to take away my office because I'm never in it.

Too many others to list but my jailbroken iPhone comes pretty close to a desktop replacement device. All this and it makes phone calls too!

 

[mth785]

I use my iPhone for everything but phone calls.

 

[whmurray]

I use my iPhone for everything but phone calls.

Ditto.

 

[BLiNK]

wait .... you can make phone calls on it too???

 

[msm0511]

I use mine for everything except phone calls!

 

[Speedv1]

Read pdfs for work
Write / read .docs for work
Update my budget (excel)
Check / post on facebook
Send messages (text, emails, bbm clones (ping/whatsapp), and ims)
Follow and be notified by my calendar (PI)
Check the weather
Surf the web (a lot of mobile sites - many forums)
Take pictures, edit them, etc (CP Pro)
Set an alarm to wake up
Buy new music! (or movies)
Listen to music! (or movies)
Google / poynt the nearest _______ (insert local need here)
Use it to choose a location to then send to my car gps nav system
Use it as a remote for my MBP
Watch youtube films - typically reviews, new music, or funny sketches
Read up on FML, Failblog, or Failbooking
Upload photos to Photobucket
Search ebay for random nick-nacks (just bought a headphone extension, and looking at headphone prices)
Search Kijiji/Craigslist for similar things
Record and log my gas expenditures
Read up on Engadget and other gadget sites
Play Games

And I honestly think that that's EVERYTHING that I do as a common practice. God I love what this thing can do lol

 

[whmurray]

wait .... you can make phone calls on it too???

Of course, Blink. Otherwise we would have to call it something stupid like, "iPod Touch." Sorry we forgot to tell you.

 

[sting7k]

TBH the actual phone part is one of the things I use the least. I mostly use it for email, texting, facebook, reading news, games, getting sports scores, twitter, checking weather, google maps/bing, traffic updates, and as a flashlight.

 

[whmurray]

TBH the actual phone part is one of the things I use the least. I mostly use it for email, texting, facebook, reading news, games, getting sports scores, twitter, checking weather, google maps/bing, traffic updates, and as a flashlight.

It is a computer that makes phone calls. All modern computers will make phone calls if you ask them to. That does not make them more telephones and less computers.

 

[BLiNK]

All modern computers will make phone calls if you ask them to.

lies. i just asked my computer to call tiger woods, i got nothing

 

[Speedv1]

lies. i just asked my computer to call tiger woods, i got nothing

Just asked the same thing, got through to Hoes'R'Us - odd, eh?

 

[w00dy]

Surf the web.....!
Traveling is a part of my job. Remembering where unlocked wifi signals are a bonus. Usually libraries, hotels and near apartment towers are a great place to utilize others wifi. Ooh yeah, I like the flickr app as well

 

[gdasilva]

everything. social networking, listening to music, working and arranging music, games, and even though i already said it, everything. i love my iphone.

 

[iquinn]

Wait you mean I can call people with it LOL. Yeah calls is the thing I do least with my iPhone, for the most part I use it to txt, tweet, update FB, surf the web and listen to music. Also I watch a lot of You Tube vids with it.

 

[BuddhistGirafe]

One word..

Everything...

 

[jamesgangut]

Most everything already said plus I track my time and email invoices. Use it for geocaching when I can take a break, listen to Audible books.

 

[gurustevie]

The calendar is one of my most used things, my memory is terrible so this helps organise me!