iPhone Street-Cred Part 3

It was like iPhone central on the most recent episode of the Joel Silver produced, CBS, vampire series Moonlight. The episode opens with the iPhone front and center as an angry waits outside a prison where an execution will be held. Onlookers are seen taking pictures with their cell phones and, of course, there had to be an iPhone user in the bunch.

Personally, I find it interesting as a user. When I first got it, being the first cell phone I ever had, I had specific purposes for it in mind and didn't always keep it with me wherever I went. Only now am I getting to that point where I am actually getting attached to it. There is a reason for that which I will explain later. Anyway, even when I have it, I rarely remember that I can take great pictures with it. I've let some good things go by when I had a camera right in my pocket.

That's not the only use we see for the iPhone in this episode of Moonlight though. The vampire Mick St. John is tracking the bad guy and he loses his iPhone in the scuffle with him. The about is about to depart the scene when he notices the shiny little device on the ground next to him. Naturally, he picks it up, dusts it off and cycles through Mick St. John's contacts to find his address where the vampire is keeping the victim the bad guy is after. How this bad guy who spent the last fifteen years in prison knows how to use the device so well is a testament to the ease of use of the great touch screen interface design.

If you're wondering why there is a gap between my updates, I am currently recovering from a devastating computer crash. I installed a software update and the computer decided not to boot again since then. Since I do most of my manga drawing on a Tablet PC, it hasn't affected this site so much, but most other things were blown back into the dark ages. This gets back to what I was saying about getting more attached to my iPhone recently.

Thanks to the shiny little device, I lost no email or web information. All my bookmarks were safe and sound and I was never out of communication as would normally be the case when my main computer went down. I didn't miss a beat in that regard. The thing is, in the days without a computer, I became more connected to my iPhone. I started getting really fast at typing on it. I felt I could begin to understand how so many people in Japan and other parts of Asia, who usually don't have access to full size PC's of their own, do everything on their mobile devices. It actually started to feel freeing that I could be outside hanging with my neighbors or out and about and still check and respond to mail or read forums. I wasn't tied to my desk for those things.

As for this site, it's time to give it more direction. Aside from, of course, filling it with more cool manga for your iPhone or iPod Touch, I want to start writing more about actually creating the manga. I want to write more about the processes, the way I come up with ideas and the troubles I might encounter along the way. I may still pop up with some news on the world of mobile manga here and there, or even a cool iPhone sighting in the pop culture world, but I want to start grounding things more. When I start to do some serious traveling soon, things will really get interesting.

Tags: iPhone, Pop Culture, TV, sightings