We have always hated shopping on the weekend of Thanksgiving. Over the past few years we've heard of all the violence associated with Black Friday, and we don't think it's worth the risk. Every year there are a couple of horrific deaths, sometimes just a random person getting shot to death while being robbed of some item they've just purchased. But we were out in it the Saturday after Thanksgiving. One item that we purchased early was my new iPhone 4S. I've been a Blackberry fan for the past couple of years but my last Blackberry (Bold 9000) was getting pretty beat up. The trackball wouldn't click, and I was tired of all the times I was having to pull the battery to force a restart after the phone froze up. I was going to ask Santa for a new Blackberry Bold, but have decided to go with the latest version of the iPhone. There were several factors that influenced my decision:
- I don't use many phone minutes.
- Instead of talking on the phone, I have become a heavy user of phone apps, such as Dropbox, Evernote, Twitter, Stocktwits, Google Reader, Epocrates and other applications.
- While there are plenty of Blackberry apps, many are quirky and don't work well, or have limited functionality.
- I really wanted more effective tools to work with the data I use, such as the ability to view videos (my blackberry couldn't play videos), pinch-to-zoom, etc.
- I don't know what the immediate future will be for Research In Motion, creators of the Blackberry devices.
It's been a very positive experience switching to the iPhone.
My roommate has been letting me try things out with his iPhone 3G prior to actually getting one.
Purchasing the iPhone was quick and easy. Unlike past experience, it took only a few minutes and they were able to transfer some of my Contacts data.
Viewing and using data on the iPhone is a much better experience. The pinch-to-zoom thing is totally cool.
Kindle syncs perfectly.
I can manage my blog much more easily with the iphone vs. the blackberry. Before, management consisted of emailing my blog entries, that's about it. The Blackberry browswer was at times cranky, and I could never zoom in enough to see what I was doing. Plus, when the trackball broke, I couldn't click into the spaces to log in as a user. Now I have a Typepad app which works ok, and I can use Safari to do everything on my phone that I can do on my laptop.
I really love being able to watch Netflix whenever I want. We have Netflix on every TV and laptop, but sometimes I'll watch something while I'm eating dinner at work, or while on break.
I've been using iCatcher! to listen to podcasts. My favorites are the ones from Magnatune.com, Leo Laporte's podcast This Week in Tech, and the Rachel Maddow Show.
The iphone app for epocrates is much nicer than the one for Blackberry. The photographs of the pills are helpful for patients to remember what dose of a drug they are taking, and the pill identifyer has been helpful when the patient does remember to bring all of his/her meds, but they're in those daily pillboxes for a week at a time.
The battery life has been good for me. I've heard a lot of complaints that the iphone doesn't even last for one day of use but I use mine without any real worries and I use mine heavily, including Netflix and gps (the usual battery-draining culprits). I still plan to ask Santa for a backup power cord to keep in my bag, and we keep a car converter in our car, but so far I haven't had any problems.
I don't use the new Siri function yet. I don't know why but she never understands what I try to ask her. Amazingly, it can't help you find/use any data stored on the iphone other than phone contact info, it's strictly to pull info from an internet server based on it's best guess of what you want.
I've used the Face-time feature once, to call my room mate. I don't think I will use it very much. I hardly talk on the phone, I do video calls even less.
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