Thursday, January 15, 2009

iPhone Saga - Day... nevermind... last one

So it's not secret. I returned my iphone for a Crackberry. Wednesday Thursday and Friday become so frustrating. Between email coming in late, having to tap the screen 6 times to get from an email in one account to an email in another, nominally useful apps that crashed every so often, an extremely frustrating keyboard, recharging the batter twice a day and finally... the phone itself crashed on me twice (on Thursday), I was done with it.

I returned to the scene of the original crime, the AT&T store and exchanged it for a Blackberry Bold. I have to say... I'm totally impressed with it and don't miss one thing on the iphone... except for maybe the Pandora App. 

During the few weeks I had the iphone I realized a few things about the my personal iphone vs crackberry evaluation:

1. the iphone was better than any non-smart phone I'd ever used.
2. if I was a heavy ipod user, it would be a nice all in one
3. the iphone was more of a novelty and a toy than a work tool
4. the iphone is pretty
5. iphone users are as fanatical about their phones as mac users are about their macs. (Even windows users who had iphones sounded like apple zealots!)
6. nothing I've experienced beats a blackberry's stability and reliable email delivery
7. The Blackberry Bold has an incredible screen... more impressive than even the iphone. Seriously.

Bold in hand. I'm done.

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