My cell phone is driving me nuts. It’s okay until I make a call and then it’s like playing Russian roulette. Sometimes it will work for 2 minutes, sometimes four, but it inevitably crashes. To makes matters worse it takes at least 5 minutes to boot up again. I think it has just been dropped too many times so it’s time for a new phone. The problem is that I don’t know what phone to get.
As some of you already know, I’m a big blackberry fan. I’ve had some sort of blackberry device on me for many years now and I’m sold on them. Amy’s iPhone, however, it VERY cool and I find myself wanting to play with it all the time. The web browsing experience on the iPhone is just the best in the mobile space bar none. However, I live or die by email and the blackberry is the best handheld email client you’ll ever see.
I thought I was going to be able to wait until the new 3G phones hit the street but my phone is absolutely killing me and I may have to do something very soon.
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
I’m starting to get the smartphone bug, but am going to hold out until iPhone 3G before I really start shopping. Isn’t the forthcoming iPhone 2.0 software supposed to help close the gap with Blackberry? (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/03/06iphone.html)
I see you as an iPhone kind of user… maybe you can hold out by using pay phones?
I’m starting to get the smartphone bug, but am going to hold out until iPhone 3G before I really start shopping. Isn’t the forthcoming iPhone 2.0 software supposed to help close the gap with Blackberry? (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/03/06iphone.html)
I see you as an iPhone kind of user… maybe you can hold out by using pay phones?
I got my blackberry curve with AT&T; on Amazon.com for -$50 (it was $25 with $75 in rebates)
I wanted an iPhone, but $400 compared to -$50 was hard to beat. :)
I got my blackberry curve with AT&T on Amazon.com for -$50 (it was $25 with $75 in rebates)
I wanted an iPhone, but $400 compared to -$50 was hard to beat. :)
I use an iPhone now and I like it enough not have switched in about a year. Normally I change phones out every year.
With IMAP to Exchange and tools to sync my calendar, contacts, and tasks between all my different computers – it works well enough. I’ve signed up for the 2.0 beta for over-the-air sync (ActiveSync) with our Exchange server, so that’ll be the 2nd to last piece of my mobile puzzle.
The last piece is tethering my iPhone to my laptop. Unfortunately, the AT&T; network isn’t as fast as Verizon’s and Apple doesn’t allow tethering of the iPhone itself (although you can if you open it up and run a few commands). I wish it’d “just work” but it doesn’t. Oh well, maybe someday I can just pay a flat fee to access anything (Internet, music, movies, etc) anywhere (phone, home, roaming, etc)
I use an iPhone now and I like it enough not have switched in about a year. Normally I change phones out every year.
With IMAP to Exchange and tools to sync my calendar, contacts, and tasks between all my different computers – it works well enough. I’ve signed up for the 2.0 beta for over-the-air sync (ActiveSync) with our Exchange server, so that’ll be the 2nd to last piece of my mobile puzzle.
The last piece is tethering my iPhone to my laptop. Unfortunately, the AT&T network isn’t as fast as Verizon’s and Apple doesn’t allow tethering of the iPhone itself (although you can if you open it up and run a few commands). I wish it’d “just work” but it doesn’t. Oh well, maybe someday I can just pay a flat fee to access anything (Internet, music, movies, etc) anywhere (phone, home, roaming, etc)