The other day, I could be found proclaiming my undying love for the Apple iPhone. I knew in my bones that I would give it as much space as it needed, and when it finally came to me I would tenderly love it forever and always.
However, I must now confess that since my proclamations of love, I have become wracked by doubts. The affair is beginning to pall for me. iPhone is just too far away – beyond touch and possession. Its prior perfection is becoming marred, with flaws beginning to show, and while I have been admiring its beauty from afar, there are other beauties closer to home that I have been ignoring.
Now others have started to catch my eye. I have felt the shameful allure of forbidden 3G delights and I am tempted by the wicked thrill of mobile photography with 5 megapixels and Carl Zeiss Tessar lenses. Worst of all, the aloof iPhone is far far away. These delights are temptingly available here and now. They sit behind their glass windows, beckoning me. I cannot resist…
So, I ordered a Nokia N95. It’s coming on Monday. Thanks to Mark Cathcart for reminding me that there are other phones in the world.
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After spending 2-hours in the local AT&T store in Austin, and being REALLY impressed with the iPhone, but I just can’t get the touchscreen keyboard to work well.
I must admit I looked at the N95 a while back and was really impressed, having never had a real cellphone I’ve never got used to keypad/predictive text input etc.
Saturdays time was also spent at looking the Palm 680(easy choice, all my current software would work), I decided against that because IBM is never going to support for WECM, then the 750 Treo with Windows, I decided that if I was going to make the jump to Windows it wouldn’t be with Palm and I just hate theie(Nokia style) 2.5mm headset socket; Blackberry – well the 8300/curve doesn’t have thumbwheel or touchscreen and the little trackball thing wasn’t good, then the 8830 doesn’t have a camera but does have a thumbwheel thingy the Samsung Blackjack is actually pretty impressive but the screen is small is, and then buttons remain active while on a call so subject to accidental hang-up…
So I decided the winner was the ATT 8525 with Windows Mobile, a 2mp camera, wifi, quad band, touch screen, slide out keyboard etc. I was shocked with I went through the IBM employee discount on the ATT website to find I got it for precisely nothing as I chose the 900 minute and unlimited PDA data plan. Wahooo…
Mmmm…. free phones!
I have just gotten access to IBM via WECM (aka Lotus Mobile Connect) in the UK. Far superior to the previous offering. I’d not thought of my phone being able to take advantage of that, but now I will
I wonder if the N95′s browser will be able to handle Bluemail.