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I had a funny little adventure this last weekend as I was flying up to Virginia Beach. I headed up there Saturday for a weekend of sight seeing and beach fun and to tape an interview with the folks at LIving The Life. (I'll tell you more about that when I find out when that show will be airing.)
Anyone who knows me knows I don't leave home without my Apple Mac Book Pro laptop and my iPhone. I'm an unabashed Apple fan. I love the products, I love the Apple Stores, I love the service.
One thing that is so fun about the iPhone is that Apple is constantly updating the the software that runs it. So even though I've had my iPhone since last Fall, I feel like I've gotten a new phone about 5 times since.
The latest and best update came last week in conjunction with Apple releasing its newer, fancier G3 iPhone. Didn't have to buy the new phone to get the stuff I'd been hoping for. Thanks, Apple! I plugged in the new stuff the day before my trip and was anxious to play around and see what new toys and gizmos were now in my phone.
As the plane whizzed along from Atlanta to Norfolk, I toured the innards of my iPhone. It was looking like an interior designer had done some nice upgrades to freshen my house.
There was the new "search" function to better access my contacts. Cool! There were the icons I had been hoping for on the home screen. Excellent!
What other fun things was Mr. iPhone sporting? I decided to play around, knowing that with all things Apple, the device will know how to do more things than I will know to ask it to do. As I deeper and deeper into the options, I think I got a little silly.
That's when I came to the "Language" options. Wow. Apple let's you run your iPhone in so many languages, again, more than I would ever think of: Suomi (Finnish-I had to look that one up,) Portuguese, someone speaks it, iPhone has it.
"Hey, I know," I thought to myself, "This would be fun. Let's see what iPhone looks like when it runs in one of the Asian languages! I pick this one!"
Honestly, I can't even tell you which one I picked, because the phone features the native characters and letters. I'm pretty sure I picked Japanese, but don't quote me on that.
Well, I was right. It was cool to see the Japanese characters and words where all my English had been. It was fun for about 5 minutes. Time to switch back. Only one problem--EVERYTHING was now in Japanese and I couldn't figure out how to navigate to the language option.
Uh oh. I was stuck in Japan.
Luckily the numbers look the same and luckily my friend, Heidi's husband, Steve, works for Apple and actually works on the iPhone. He was the first phone call I made when I landed in Norfolk.
"I have good news and bad news," I said. "I LOVE all the iPhone updates I've been hoping for and I'm stuck in Japan."
"I thought Heidi said you were going to Virginia?" he asked confused.
"Yep, I'm stuck in Japan in Virginia," I kind of clarified and explained the jam I had touch-screened my way into.
I think Steve can often be amused with my adventures and this time I did not disappoint. Neither did he. He was able to talk me back to English and America by having me countdown through different bars on different touch screens.
It was good to be back. I thanked Steve and put in my request for the next iPhone upgrade, "Can you guys have an icon that instantly pops you back to English when you're done trying out Japanese? That would be great."
So, all is good in my Apple world. In fact, a little too good. After he got me back to America, Steve pointed out this other new little feature that let's you download all sorts of applications I didn't know I needed.
The Solitaire game is just a little too addictive. And who knew I needed a multi-color Star Wars light saber complete with sound effects when I swoosh my iPhone through the air? Apparently, I do because I now have one.
Oh, I'm so easily amused, which is of course, how I ended up in Japan on my way to Virginia Beach in the first place.
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