First off OMG! A non-employment related post!!!!1!1one!!oh-en-ee!!!
right? where was i?
Ah, yes, so regular readers of this blog may note, i have strong feelings toward Apple. Said strong feelings are not what you'd normally call "positive". Kind of like saying how being dragged through salt encrusted broken glass before being thrown into a pit of lava may be a tad "uncomfy".
That sort of feeling.
So, needless to say, i wasn't exactly thrilled to read that Helio (my current provider) is headed the way of the Newton. This means that should the contract die and i'm stuck with something less appealing, i could very well be shopping for a new phone and contract.
Which leads me to a rather annoying possibility.
If i were to get a new phone, it'd be a smart phone. Ideally not something the size of a small table. That means deciding between a blackberry or a (sigh) apple iphone. Granted, a blackberry has wifi (for both of the times that, you know, you can find an open access point), already has an SDK out (for quite some time), works on nearly any network, has a killer battery life and frankly, who cares if it can play music? It also features a less than adequate browser (well, until one loads Opera on it, i suppose) and is the size of a small table. (Ok, the Bold is only slightly "tablely", but still, none of these aren't "slip in the pocket and go" type devices.) It also features a standard USB miniB connector and not some hell-spawned proprietary evil and some models can take mini sd(hc) cards and have replaceable batteries.
Vs. the iPhone, which is the current geek wet dream of a device which, will eventually have an SDK, may actually let you load programs to it, has an ok battery life, pretty darn good browser, proprietary hellspawn connector, thinks mini sd Cards don't fit with Steve's View, and have replaceable batteries, provided you replace the attached phone as well.
So, pragmatic logic vs. sheepish cultural following?
decisions… decisions… mixed with cursing. Lots of that.
Ah well, who knows. Perhaps the impending demise of my current carrier isn't quite the looming iceberg off the port bow i believe it to be, and, a year from now, there will be a plethora of time travel enabled devices to select from. (or not).
Looks like more cursing.
