Most of the time, I talk about travelling, life overseas, or sappy love stories. Today, in between me being in bed, and trips to the toilet to throw up (don’t ask, it’s not nice to write about it), I get this nagging image I saw a couple of days ago about the October 4th Apple event in California.
So what’s there to talk about with regards to the iPhone?
I guess everyone’s lives will never be the same again after the launch of the first iPhone. I remember being in Manila when the first generation iPhone came out and saw the price tag on it – absolutely RIDICULOUS. (Well, until now, it really isn’t advisable to get your iPhone in the Philippines because it’s overpriced, the data plans and the 3G network are blah, and it’s friggin locked to one service provider).
I thought the iPhone was overrated and were just for social-climbing-turds who wanted to lord it over the urban poor of Manila that they had the money (well, I think they had plastic where they’d have to save every single cent to pay for the bills) to get these gadgets. So, I’m being mean. Let me clear the air again.
When I moved to Singapore, I thought to myself that my trusted Nokia 7210 Supernova would do the trick. Funny how typically Filipino I was – owning a Nokia phone. And as typical as they come, I got myself an iPhone 3GS even before my first payday (I think I got my back pay from my previous employer and thereby shelling out SGD200 for the phone under a 2-year plan).
I was made into a believer of the iPhone. The nice thing about living in a socialist-first-world country is that the resources are all within everyone’s reach. Everyone, well, 90% of the people you’d see inside the MRTs daily are so engrossed with their smartphones, the iPhone to be exact, that nobod even gives a damn that you have one. Do that in the Philippines or another country here in Asia, and you might have to choose between your iPhone and your life.
Then the iPhone 4 came out and everyone was all gaga over the retina display. The death grip wasn’t so much of a let down, though the shape of the phone was a bit of a challenge. It initially only came in black and everyone was waiting for a white one to come out – just like with the 3GS.
So now the question is, will Apple release an iPhone 5, an iPhone 4S, or both? A mid-priced smart phone from Apple might shake the market once more. This might cater more to emerging and developing countries. But having a choice between the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 4S? Hmm.. the iMessaging and the notifications are the ones that I’m actually waiting for. More than anything else, the iOS5 and iCloud makes me look foward to this event.
Let’s also put somewhere in this event the official launch of the Facebook for iPad application.
So, I think I’ll be a dork and stay up late in my hotel room in Davao next week, waiting for the feeds in the said event. iPhone 5? I think I’d wait until March to get one (if there is indeed one since I’m doing a re-contract by March). After all, I still have a year or so more here in Singapore before I get moved elsewhere (I think).
