I’ve been pretty adamant that, while I think the iPhone is a gorgeous and extremely versatile phone, it’s not for me.
I want multi-tasking application capability.
I want seamless Office editing and reading capability without having to pay for an "app for that."
I don’t want AT&T to restrict my ability to use my Slingplayer app ONLY when I’m on a WiFi network.
I want bluetooth tethering, without restrictions.
Yeah, I have some "I wants", don’t I?
I brought The Bob’s iPhone with me to the office today, while I catch up on some work. (I really shouldn’t be blogging this, but if I don’t do it now, who knows when you’ll hear from me again? Besides, I’m typing this while my other computer is busy compiling code.)
I wanted to find out if his phone gets better reception than my nearly 3 year old Samsung Blackjack I does. I can’t take or make calls on my BJ in the office (which is an interior closet) because I seldom get any bars of reception. I can get texts, and if the phone rings I have to grab it and run out the door, and down the hall to the outside door.
The iPhone has four full bars. The BJ has one or two, sometimes. Sometimes it goes up to three, until you pick it up. It reminds me of that one commercial where the guy had to crouch on top of a filing cabinet in order to get a signal. All I know is that The Bob called me four times and we never managed to have a conversation with the BJ. The iPhone performed very well. Call quality was clear, easy to have a two-way conversation, although a wee bit soft in volume for my tastes. Oh man, I’m falling…
I can stream music through my BJ, and often do, from various internet radio stations, XM Sirius, and so on. Pandora doesn’t make an app for my phone yet. The problem is, when I stream music my battery dies in about three or four hours. Even when I have it plugged in to an AC source. Not sure why that is, but it is.
Today I’m streaming Pandora from the iPhone as it is docked in a iPod-compatible clock radio on my desk that is flashing 12:00 (which it’s done since sometime last week when we lost power). It’s strong and clear. There are plenty of apps for internet radio and even the XM Sirius app for the iPhone. I’m falling…
I’ve been thinking to buy the HTC Touch Pro 2 when it comes out later this summer. It’s been on my radar for a few months now, and even stopped me from upgrading the BJ last fall when we bought the iPhone, because it has all the features I want. Well, one I don’t. HTC uses a proprietary charging/headphone jack, just like my BJ does. It’s annoying that I can’t just plug any handy 3.5mm headphone/speaker into the BJ without digging to find the adapter first. Of course, you-know-what uses the standard headphone jack. I’m falling…
And the eReader application works better for e-books on the iPhone then the BJ…
Movies are bigger. (But the Touch Pro will have an absolutely GORGEOUS screen…)
I want a QWERTY keyboard…
So I’m taking a good hard look at how I use my phone and what I need it to do. Then at what I want it to do. To be honest, calling on my phone is not the number one priority. I get two calls a month and most of the time, they’re both wrong numbers.
Should I get the iPhone and live without multi-tasking and Slingplayer except on WiFi? I can get “an app for that” for almost everything else. And I don’t really do that much Office-compatible work on the phone, even though I have good intentions.
Time for a decision list. Oh, the agony…
