Mobile Apptitude

If there’s one thing we know about CREDO members, it’s that they do more than just talk about the things they care about.

This blog is about what you can do with your mobile phone besides just talk. (We hope you have a CREDO Mobile phone, but it’s not required!)

Increasingly, we find cell phones are at the center of our busy lives. Our phones literally connect us to the people we care the most about through phone calls and text messages. We keep pictures of our significant others (or children, or dogs, or cats!) on our home screen. We follow friends, bloggers, and our causes through things like FaceBook, Twitter and Gmail.

Our phones also keep us from things that are important. They can ring at inappropriate moments, interfere with our ability to pay attention to others, distract us from our driving, addict us to their games.

There are plenty of gearhead blogs out there about the latest apps and features of cell phones. We’re looking forward to having a different kind of conversation. People are continually inventing new and interesting mobile phone uses. It’s not always easy to be in the know and mobile apps are not always intuitive to use. We’ve created this blog as a way to share some of the cool, progressive, social and just plain simple ways we’ve found our mobile phones can enrich and entertain our lives beyond just talk.

One note – this blog will not cover iPhone applications. We know lots of great people have iPhones, and that there are lots of great iPhone apps. But for us, the fact that the iPhone is really a money machine for AT&T is too much. This is the AT&T whose PAC maxed out to Bush and Cheney (twice), was an early supporter of McCain, is a leading proponent of internet discrimination in favor of whatever they like, and much more.

Of course, we know you have your own favorite applications – so let us know what they are at mobileapptitude@credomobile.com.