I got to play with an iPhone today for the first time (I know bit behind the times). Boy is it shiney.
I got a Blackberry Curve 3 months ago when I moved over here and I have been very pleased with it. While it’s missing some of the Nokia style UI / usability polish it’s by far the best phone I’ve had.
Up until this afternoon I thought that a decent theme for the UI, a better Camera and built in GPS was all it needed to be perfect.
Playing with an iPhone has changed all that.
It doesn’t have Exchange integration (which *cough* is actually pretty sweet and works well on the Curve), it is missing a bunch of other practical things from the curve but “frivolous” things like the touch control, the screen and Safari on the iPhone make the curve look 5 years old.
In fact the iPhone is so shiney the only reason I’m not going to pick an iPhone up when I visit the Apple Store in Chicago next month is because the main GSM operator up here in Canada makes Vodafone and O2 back home look good.
At the minute I pay $90 per month for a couple of hundred evening and weekend minutes and 200Megs of data. I pay to receive calls. I pay to make non local calls. Voicemail and CallerID and a pile of other “options” are all chargeable extras.
Up here in the north having a “cell” means handing my wallet to the telco and bending over. My bill would be even more ridiculous with an unlocked iPhone.
Shame because damn it’s shiney.
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