iPhone Blogging
If it isn’t clear from the brevity and the occassional odd wrong word, I am blogging from my iPhone while I travel SE Asia. The phone isn’t unlocked so I can’t drop in a SIM card and make calls but it does have wifi so I can use it for email and the web plus other helpful apps. There are the Lonely Planet audio phrase applications – a must have for Asian languages. Games for when you are stuck on transportation, WordPress for blogging and a currency exchange calculator for those transitions between countries. Plus it’s so much more secure than hotel computers.
Our room in Hanoi had its own computer. Before logging into email I installed anti-spyware and anti-virus only to find the machine infected multiple trojans and viruses. We cleaned it up but no one before us had that benefit and who knows if a keystroke logger didn’t nail someone. My iPhone, in contrast, is much more secure given It has no viruses (yet), manages its own tunnelling and isn’t a public computer. I definitely trust it or an iPod Touch much more than public computers and am glad to have access to so much wifi in the country.
Now it is time to get back to watching the countryside go by on the reunification express.