It really is like another appendage isn’t it! And yeah, managing the battery life is a bit of a struggle. But at least with the iPhone I feel like I’m only worrying about keeping one thing charged up!

Thanks for contributing to the conversation. Hope to hear from you again.

Cheers,
Eric

There are definitely some ‘family functions’. We solved that problem in a way I’m sure Steve Jobs would like to see every middle class family adopt. We have three iPhones (which will probably go to 4 soon when I finally upgrade to a 3GS ), a few ipods, 2 MacBooks and 1 Mac Pro in the family – and an aging windoze machines that will soon be replaced by an iMac. So, the newly added ability to share libraries in iTunes is appreciated!

Thanks,
Eric

I like the Rogers mobile account app — so it’s still there.

Thanks,
Eric

Pandora – just not compelling enough to burn up my battery, though I use, and like, Pandora on the computer

email – I’ll read email and briefly respond, but I walk over to the computer to write an in depth email.

document review – sometimes, but I’d rather use my computer

finances – on the computer. Just haven’t found a sufficiently good app and still some concern on security (lost phone problem)

shopping – almost always on the computer, want to see the reviews and comparison pricing. When I’m in a store, or away from home, then yes, I use the iPhone and it works well.

update contacts – sometimes if the update is part of the iPhone UI (like add a contact of a person that just called you) I’ll use the iPhone, otherwise, it’s on the computer.

Looking at apps that I’ve uninstalled, that I might have used at home: BofA mobile banking, Loopt (social networking), ATT mobile account app. These were apps that don’t provide enough value to keep on the phone.

I use my iphone for all of your items. Oddly enough, as a stand alone device, I don’t listen to ipod music / videos on it very often. However, it docks well with my iPod Bose Speaker set up and I just bought the TV dock so i expect that it will replace my DVD player as well.

I have contemplated if I really want all of functions in the iphone or if they are better served on a iTouch that stays at home and is utilized as a family device / media console.

I suspect that Apple may find that its not music / video but the apps, utility functions and computer like features that drives future growth / adaption.

I’m a big Shazam fan as well – but that’s mostly an ‘in car’ app for me since I rarely seem to listen to broadcast radio at home – though I’ve used it a few times to look up soundtracks on TV.

I also use Wikipedia a lot at home. But I tend to access it by using the Google Mobile App to do a search using speech recognition (which I find works well for me) — the relevant Wikipedia article is usually at or near the top of list. But I’ll have to give Wikipanion a try.

And the fact that all of the common use cases are well supported by dedicated apps means I actually PREFER to use the iPhone. Weather is a great example – it is faster and easier to look up on an iPhone than on a computer.

Cheers,
Eric

Grocery list – lots of apps for this, but I currently use Grocery IQ.

NYTimes app – read with breakfast

Wikipanion – find out what wikipedia says about a topic

Flixster – look up movie reviews, showtimes, before going out to a movie

PocketFlix – reorganize my Netflix queue

Weather (lots of apps) – check local/ski reports

Shazam – hear a song and find out who the band is

Caltrain – check the train schedule

OpenTable – book dinner reservations

Yelp – look up places/services

Using Safari, not many things I do without a dedicated app, but things I have done – put mail hold on, put WSJ delivery hold on,