The iPhone: Tool or Toy

I gave my husband an iPhone for his birthday this year. He was quite possibly the last of his friends to get a Smartphone   Within hours he had found and downloaded enough apps to fill four screens. 

I have two screens of apps.  They could fit on one but I don't like the clutter.         I have had my iPhone for about 2 1/2years and never once been to the app store. I dong even know how to access it. I'm a smart girl; I'm sure I could figure it out, but I haven't as of this writing had a reason to.

In the past week he's played Super Why with the kids, taken hundreds of pictures, plenty of video and found apps for everything from craigslist to sudoku, I didn't even know he liked it!   I love my iPhone, but for me it is definitely a tool.  I check email, stocks and weather; write blog posts; get directions or find ice cream near the museum, research articles on the web, and oh yes, make phone calls.  My hubby, I guess more part of the web culture, quickly turned his into primarily a toy but also a tool for finding jobs, reading about political issues, and searching for homes.  While you won't see me in the app store any time soon, I do have a new appreciation for all my little phone can access and do.