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So, instead of doing my homework, I was playing around with my iPod. (Shut up, I was tired, and in need of relaxation. I have time to get things done still.) I was enjoying Zen Bound, a game I’ll probably write up in a day or two. So I’m playing that for an hour or so in the library, and then I look at my iPod and notice that I have burned through over half of my battery power with one hour of play. I stopped so I can still listen to podcasts for the rest of the day.

But dammit, can you think of how screwed I would be if I had an iPhone? If I had run out most of my battery power playing games, then I’d be disconnected from my phone. That’s just unacceptable. Losing my “fun” thing is okay, but completely losing my communication center? No.

Granted, I could be having a lot more fun with games with a full connection to the internet and such that the iPhone would give me, but I really don’t think that separation is worth the tradeoff. Part of the reason I wanted one of those two was to play these games, and they’re cool little games, and frankly, they’ve stopped me from carrying my DS everywhere, since I always have fun games to play and most of them are podcast-friendly, so I can listen to them while I’m playing as well. It’s awesome.

It’s a shame these really hardcore games drain battery power so much. I’d think it would make iPhone owners have to make really tough decisions about when they play, which is… unfortunate. But yeah, this is why I made the right choice. When I get a smart phone, it’ll be a communications center. I’ll have chatting and internets and phone power and it’s all separate from my fun, so they don’t kill each other. That’s the ticket. Yeah.