After a year with the Blackberry Curve 8310, I decided to bite the bullet, and my wallet, and upgrade to the Apple iPhone 3GS.
I do have a good reason for doing this. I’ve been considering buying a laptop for the past couple of years. With the iPhone, and it’s wi-fi capability, I basically have a laptop in the palm of my hand. So, I’m essentially saving money by not buying a new laptop and buying this phone instead. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself.
I can’t say enough about the difference in performance of this phone compared to the Blackberry. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the Curve. If I could have had access to a 3G network or wifi using the Curve, I would have kept it for a lot longer than I did. But now that I took the plunge and bought the iPhone, I can honestly say I don’t foresee needing a new phone for a few years…(at least until the next generation comes out. I keed! I keed!)
I’ve been away from Apple products for about 10 years. In the early days of IRC, I was “the Mac guy” who everyone made fun of, all in good fun of course, but I always stood by the platform and it’s stability. That is until the Mac I had (an old LC II, with an 80MB hard drive, 16MB RAM, and a blazing speed of 16mHZ) just got to be too sluggish for all the things I wanted to do, like listen to mp3’s, or multi-task by maybe checking email AND browsing the web at the same time. There’s a novel idea! With that old LC II, it was next to impossible to do more than one task at a time. But back in 1992, that thing smoked!
When my brother bought the necessary components to have a Windows based PC built by a good friend of mine, I’ve been exclusively using the Windows platform ever since, with the exception of when I worked in video production and used Macs for editing.
So, the next few days will be spent playing with the phone (and recharging it numerous times- the only negative thing I have to say about this phone is the battery life), finding all the cool free(!) apps (any suggestions, by the way?), and getting used to how it operates.