After a love affair with Sony Ericsson phones for more than 10 years last week this ended. Why? I have always admired their style and more recently their advances in camera phone technology made for an attractive package. The last model I brought the c902, exmplefied these features. But when a mobile phone can’t perform basic tasks like letting me answer a call everytime. Not freezing during basic navigation, not allowing the use of the keypad during a call to interact with a IVR menu. I also expect a phone not to mute the other line for five seconds at random intervals. In short, just not useable. I am over it. All I want is something reliable.
I had a look at the bewildering choice of phones on the market. It was a hard choice to make.
I ruled out windows mobile phones, I tried the interface on a PDA a while ago and I did not like it. I also decided that I would avoid the smaller brands like LG, samsung and other niche vendors. When you discount all of that the choice narrows significantly basically leaving nokia.
There are basically two options their N series Symbian based smart phones and the more regular nokia interface. I looked hard at the symbian phones particularly the N85. However I just could not get excited about it and I did not really want to learn a new interface. And that is when it struck me. I wanted a smart phone which is reliable and has an interface that I all ready knew. The answer was clear an iPhone.
It has only been a couple of days with with iPhone so a little early to make a judgement. However I have written this blog on the iPhone with the help of an excellent wordpress app. All of a sudden mobile blogging has become a reality.
Mabrook! You’ve made a good choice
By: Magnus on January 20, 2009
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Great. I am thinking about moving to iPhone myself. Could you follow up on this post after few days and update is how it is to do other things on iPhone like sending/receiving work/personal emails, general web browsing, text messaging, operating while driving, and other stuff that you can do on iPhone. Thanks.
By: Umar in Dubai on January 21, 2009
at 3:15 pm
my husband had an iphone and dropped it, which shattered the screen. it was useable but looked horrible. so, he has second one and loves the thing. i am not a iphone fan but then again i am not the technology geek like he is so ignore my opinion.
By: ilka on January 22, 2009
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“Operating while driving”, Umar? Is that a good idea?
By: Magnus on January 22, 2009
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Aaron – it’s guys like you with all your gadgets that put a new spin on the “toyboy” label!
Congrats on your purchase. Am looking forward to reading what you think about it after a few days/weeks of use.
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at 4:30 pm
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By: jeff on January 24, 2009
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Magnus, I know what you mean, but just wanted to know if iPhone was easy to use while driving or not, such dialing a contact etc.
By: Umar in Dubai on January 24, 2009
at 10:56 am
iPhone is nice, but camera sucks compared to Nokia and SE alternatives. Nokia does not have proper high resolution phone out other than big communicators and 5800.
By: Karpo on January 25, 2009
at 10:23 am
Hey mate- this is sounding frighteningly like a Mr Saul blog!!!
By: duncan on February 27, 2009
at 12:45 am
@ duncan – I think my frustration at a brand I have relied on for more than a decade might have shown through here!
@ Umar – the iPhones works well with the bluetooth setup in my car – so no problems with safety. Touch phones are certainly not be used when driving.
By: Aaron on February 27, 2009
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