Android and iPhone have created the mobile version of the Mac v. PC debate.
I love, love, love my Droid, but had I not been in the wireless lobster trap that is Verizon, I totally would have gotten an iPhone some time ago. Fortunately for me, the Droid finally broke Verizon's string of remarkably unsmart phones running on a solid wireless infrastructure. Now Twitter plays the price for my ready access to the social grid.
There is a nice chart that provides a fairly nonpartisan look at mobile phone users' opinions of each other. Some truth in it for sure. It even includes Blackberry.
I enjoy the good natured fun/trash talk between rival phone owners (my boilerplate comment: "A 3 year old can use an iPhone, and their current user base validates that intellectual requirement"), but I start to shy away when it becomes a more serious argument of right and wrong.
There is not right or wrong. Get the phone that works for you. Try it out. If you like it, buy it. Don't worry what your friends have, it is YOUR phone. Get one you like.
Unfortunately, some folks seem to think a mobile phone selection somehow serves as a validation of their intelligence and your selection (if different) is the scarlet letter of mopery.
Well, I have news for "those" people - not true (na na na na boo boo). Last I checked, there is no IQ test required to buy a phone. You pay, you get. They will sell them to ANYONE. If lower level life forms like bacteria, sea slugs, or Nancy Grace strolled into a mobile phone store (online or in person) - they are leaving with a new mobile device, if they were wielding a valid credit card.
So get the mobile phone you like already!
Oh, and iPhone users, you probably can't read this due to poor reception and coverage, so I will print it out for you.
(to clarify: Last line was a JOKE)
I represent the bacteria and slug union. We are suing you for slander as NG is clearly not as evolved as we are.
ReplyDeleteI have an iphone because my employer paid for it. It was fun at first (playing Madden in meetings while "checking email"), but I actually miss my blackberry with its olde-tyme turn of the century tactile keyboard.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I'm in need of a personal phone and was leaning toward Verizon. Which Droid do you have?
Also, I love that you keep this blog alive.
If your wireless provider carries it (Verizon doesn't), I totally recommend the Evo. The "Incredible" is very similar and available via Verizon and will likely be my next phone. I have the original Droid.
ReplyDeleteThis is old, but I just saw it tonight and thought of this post.
ReplyDeletePersonal phone upgraded this week to the EVO... thanks for the tip. Holy cow is this thing cool.
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