Before I get going this morning, I hope you all had a very nice Thanksgiving with the important people in your family. We sure did even though one of ours was not able to make it but we are looking forward to Christmas when we all will be together.
I have been waiting and waiting and waiting with no doubt a million other Apple addicted tech geeks. Now that the contract between Apple and AT&T is complete, the iPhone will make its way to the other cell vendors. One rumor has the "other" phone being something other than a true iPhone, something of a hybrid. As a family we are pretty much locked into the Verizon plan of free V-to-V calling. Having one type of phone or another I was in MD over Thanksgiving and my son-in-law and I went to the Verizon store for a problem with his phone.
The phone I have for my flying job is a Blackberry Bold shown below. A couple of years ago I thought
I would get used to the extra $30 charge for the internet usage and went into a Blackberry contract with Verizon. The pearl (shown below looked like it would do the trick.
Yes it is small and sleek but I gotta tell you. The keyboard is not a good design. It is a cross between a traditional phone keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard and it just does not cut it. The screen ended up being too small and all of the Blackberry's do not browse very well. So my venture to find the Verizon comparable iPhone substitute continued. Enter the Blackberry Storm.
It looked like it would be surfing bliss... Ah, but not so fast. The first time I used one of these devices in the store I could not even get the links to work on my website. The dude at the store said that something or another had to be turned on. Ok... I got it. The Storm is kind of like the PC where the iPhone is... well, an Apple product... It just works!
But alas, Motorola comes up with the Android or Droid for short. This thing is sleek and sweet. The only things I am missing that the iPhone has is the pinch technology (although it does zoom quite well) and the connectivity with the Apple applications such as iCal and iTunes.
The really nice function that it does have over the iPhone is the tactile keyboard as well as a virtual keyboard. As new toys go, the coolness will wear off over time but I hope the functionality of this device will serve me well for the next couple of years. Will I venture over to the iPhone in when Verizon is available, I am not sure at this point. I am sure I will take a close look at it though.
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