# "Sent From My iPhone" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sent-from-my-iphone/645955 "2013-01-03T15:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sent-from-my-iphone/645955/41 "2013-01-12T00:19:48Z")
I use an old iPhone on a prepaid 10¢/minute GoPhone account. Since it has no data plan, it is not quite a ‘real’ iPhone so I added a ‘y’ to the message… -Sent from my iPhoney ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sent-from-my-iphone/645955/42 "2013-01-12T01:53:33Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > Blackberry did start the trend. I didn’t want to be a mobile advertisement for my cellphone provider, so I cut out their name. > > When I got an iPad I was going back and forth between devices. I thought it seemed terribly pretentious to have both alternating as I moved around during the day. So I changed it to “sent from my Atari,” on all of them, a tradition I continue to this date! I might have to steal this. Yes. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sent-from-my-iphone/645955/43 "2013-01-12T07:43:13Z")
A fellow Scot on my football team has “Sent from my AyePhone”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sent-from-my-iphone/645955.md?page=2)