Cancelling an iPhone contract? Oh my!
A little tongue in cheek was required here. I have been a fan of the iPhone since it first hit the stores. I still don’t have one, but last year I did get an ipod touch. I enjoy many things about it, particularly the browsing capability and also the integration with itunes and the app store.
Having said that, I read everyday something not good about it. While we’re all familiar with the great things about the iphone, the bad seems to get pushed down. Or does it?
It occurred to me this morning as I was reading a post on VentureBeat, it may be a lot more about just being part of a craze and not so much about the greatness of the phone. Everyone I talk to says how great it is, and they extol the many virtues, but when pushed with any amount of force, they will acknowledge the much more stable quality of the rim devices and also how comfortable email is on a Blackberry as well.
There are a lot of things about the iphone no one wants to admit. The inferiority of call quality, email etc. etc. Sure, Apple pointed us to a better set of features and functions a phone could and maybe should have. Now, why doesn’t Blackberry or another phone integrate some of those great features and let’s put the iphone behind us?
Apparently one has. I can’t wait for revues on it. Have a look at what TheBoyGenius Report has to say about what the new DROID phone will do, that the iphone doesn’t.
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on October 19th, 2009 at 10:00 am
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on October 19th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
RIM is, in my mind, another kind of walled garden. It might be good at email, but it still requires a Blackberry server to talk to. Your operator might operate it, but it’s still required. It won’t talk directly to Exchange, either, which for me, is a complete showstopper, even if a Blackberry has superior email.
Exchange email on the iPhone compared to Nokia’s Mail for Exchange is better, but this is mostly because the S60 email client is, to put it charitably, antiquated. The only real problem I see on the iPhone Exchange email is that it doesn’t work so well in offline mode, otherwise it is a step up for me.
on October 20th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I agree RIM, Nokia and Apple are all their own walled garden variants in one way or another. Whit I LOVE about this new phone is finally it opens conversation to all the things iCan’t do with the “I gotta have one” phone. Maybe that euphoric delusion of the iPhone being perfect simply because it’s from Apple will fade and something like this will open the competition in a space that needs it. Maybe ‘droid will open a chink that Nokia can find the brains to leverage. Lord knows they need something to kick them into action.
on November 2nd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
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