QotD: On The iPhone…

Over a million iPhones have been sold.  Have you: bought one, considered it, or decided it's not for you?

I was considering buying one. I really like the interface but at the time I was phone shopping (right after it came out) it's $500-600 price tag was very hard to swallow considering it was lacking several features which are present in other less expensive phones. I'm willing to shell out cash for a cool interface, but…not that much cash.

Perhaps next time around when they release the next revision and the price goes down a little bit. Also, at the time, the lack of third party applications was really a sticking point for me. I tried to ignore it as hard as I can, but in the end, it sealed it's fate.

Instead, I bought myself a Blackberry Curve which I fell in love with. This thing is just so useful that I often wonder how I ever survived with my Treo 650. With the Treo, everything felt kinda hacked together. Like tacking the phone onto an already ancient operating system. The curve feels much more integrated. I also love the little touches, like automatically going into standby mode when in the belt holster I have and dimming the screen in dark areas. The camera is fairly decent too, as far as cell phone cameras go. As long as it's not too dark out and the thing you're taking a picture of isn't moving very fast.

I think I'm definitely a blackberry convert now. As much as I like Apple, they're going to have to do something seriously cool to win me back from the Blackberry camp now.

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