The Breakfast Radio diaries 099 - But can it start a car?

Don't look now but there's another iPhone on the horizon. Also isn't it amazing how many things you still remember that have no relevance to today whatsoever?

SO THE IPHONE 14 HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED

And cards of the table right here, my iPhone ownership started and subsequently ended back in the days of the iPhone 4S. I tried it, decided I didn't like it (iTunes was a major bug bear for me) and pitched my tent right in the heart of camp Android where I've been ever since via Samsung and one instance of Huawei. 

But Lu's got an iPhone and these launches are big news around the world so it's not like I'm going to pretend they're not still a thing. An expensive thing sure, but a thing none the less. In fact, allow me to furnish you with a list of what this phone can do (and probably can't!)

WHAT THE ALL NEW IPHONE 14 CAN DO

-Make calls

-Send messages

-Take pictures

-Work out if you've been in a car accident (You may scoff but apparently this is a feature.)

-Tell you when you're ovulating. I don't know how, I'm not sure I want to know how either but maybe this is something you've been crying out for your mobile device to finally be capable of doing? 

WHAT THE ALL NEW IPHONE 14 CAN'T DO

-Send high quality videos to Android based phones. Maybe if every one comes together with this RCS thing (the next evolution of SMS apparently) but for now Android users will still have to deal with very grainy low quality videos sent to them from an Apple device. Great.

-Be charged with a USB-C cable. Europe is keen in a couple of years for all new phones to have this feature and I for one applaud the idea. No more 'Have you got a lightning charger?' questions at work, even though I'm as close to an Apple as bleach would be to one in your local supermarket. 

-Be cheap to buy. Ha ha ha ha, no. 

-Set fire to the rain (thanks Adele)

-Write a best seller by itself

-Jump start a car. But I'd be quite impressed by any phone Apple or not that actually could. Just enough to get it started so you could limp your ride to the nearest auto shop to purchase a new battery for it and not have to take the new unit for a walk in the sunshine across town just to get home. 

-Get you out of a bad date by realising quickly the guy/girl is a dud and making itself ring so you can pretend your turtle's on fire or your Dad's hallucinating he's Miles Davis again and you can bug out in record time. 

-Out punch Mike Tyson

-Make a mean chilli con carne

-Make sense of Netflix movie Cosmic Sin

-Grow your manhood to epic proportions

-Increase the fuel mileage in your car at a truly impressive rate

-Make a decent cup of coffee. Sure it might be able to tell your wifi enabled kettle when to boil and your coffee maker when to get perculating but that brew is on them ultimately, not your phone. 

-Deliver a baby

-Turn itself into a sonic screwdriver

-Fix Subaru overheating problems

THE HOUSE OF USELESS INFORMATION

So we played this song on the show this morning - One Week by The Barenaked Ladies

And I told the story of the listener I met years ago that impressed a first date by reciting that song, word for word, in full over a dinner. I can't remember if there was a second date after that momentous moment but I think you'll agree, that's pretty damn impressive. 

That lead to Lu revealing her head is full of lyric knowledge to lots of songs but since it's so full of useless lyrics now, there's just no room for remembering appointments or things that happened last week. 

Which lead me to: 96145374X

That's my VCE number from year 11 and 12 which was back in 1996. And obviously I haven't had a single use for it since...but it's still up there in the great databank of my head for a future purpose that eludes me. 

And after asking that question via Facebook, it seems we're all full of useless information that we'll never use ever again...but we can't seem to forget either. Things like: 

-The rego number of a listeners dad's car back when she was 14

-What PSI popcorn pops at (135 apparently)

-Phone numbers that have been long since disconnected. 

-Tip top bread codes

-Car regos from the 70s

-Someone's ICQ number (remember ICQ!!)

TOMORROW FRIDAY ROLLS AROUND AGAIN

Although I still feel like it's currently Wednesday which shows how out of whack I am at the moment. But we'll talk footy, what's on for the weekend and things to do to avoid the rain - apparently there's a bit of it headed our way across the Border..

Chat then!

-Almigo