[OFB Cafe] My Droid Preview

[Jens Benecke]

Am 02.11.2009 um 01:40 schrieb Timothy Butler:

> On Nov 1, 2009, at 2:23 AM, Jens Benecke wrote:
>
>> So I settled for an iPhone 3G for now. Replacing my 8 year old SE  
>> K700i. :-)
>
> I'd agree with your analysis, Jen. I'm on my second iPhone now (went  
> from the original to the 3GS earlier this year) and I continue to be  
> impressed by it. I'm starting to see more phones that come *close*  
> to doing what I like about the iPhone... but none that do everything  
> I like in the iPhone. And that's even ignoring the apps, though  
> several of those are really useful for me.


Hi Tim,

The 3GS was on offer here as well but I’d have had to pay €200 extra  
to get it. I didn’t think that was worth the effort. (Is it?)

You’re right about the apps. There is some utility in having a phone  
that can do more than actually phone people. Even more so, since I  
don’t really use the phone that often. :-) Since moving to Mac OS and  
using Mac-centric applications more and more (I am now using iWork 09  
more often than OpenOffice, for example), most small tools I have  
begun to like have *some* iPhone counterpart which makes life a little  
easier or is simple fun to use.

OTOH, the two people I know who have WM-based phones don’t use any  
extra software because „most of them are useless toys anyway“ (quote).

What I cannot really understand is why so many „other“ phones don’t  
get the most basic simple things right - what use is a touchscreen  
phone if the buttons are too small or the reaction of the OS is too  
slow, and what good is a mobile phone in the first place if the sound  
quality is so bad you can’t properly understand people?

Anyway, I’ll keep you updated. My iPhone will come unlocked and I’ll  
just continue using my cheap prepaid SIM card and pay my couple euros  
per month (right now I pay 9 cents per minute and SMS).


Regards,

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