iPhone

I never planned on purchasing an iPhone, mainlfy because (at that time) it lacked support for Microsoft Exchange. But then, one day last August, I stopped by an AT&T retail store on my way home. I walked in, picked up the iPhone and playefd around with it for a while, and foundf myself handing over my credit card to a helpful sales rep.

The words "Rabbi" and "iPhone" are not commonly found in the same sentence. Yet my 10th grade students began their Confirmation service this year by saying, "We have truly become a community, and we have the pictures on Rabbi Cohen's iPhone to prove it."

[Publishers Note: We have been publishing our mobile computing magazines from Fairfield, Iowa since 1985. Fairfield, one of the most exciting small cities in America, is home to the Steven Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts and Iowa's only professional musical theater company. It is also the home of one of the most unique universities in the country, Maharishi University of Management, which is an accredited university with a student body that practices Transcendental Meditation.

One of the biggest criticisms of the original release of the iPhone was that you couldn't install custom applications. Now that Apple has released the iPhone 2.0 OS, which allows the installation of third-party software through iTunes and a Software Development Kit to create them, that criticism no longer applies. Whether it's games, organizational tools, or business applications, the sky's the limit with iPhone 2.0.

Making the paradigm shift