So everyone wants one, and we’re just looking for excuses to justify the outrageous expense right?

So lets break it down.

Why you want one

1. It’s a phone
2. It’s an always on internet device
3. It’s a video iPod
4. It syncs well with your mac and anything that brings your mac closer to your pocket is a good thing
5. Like GTD? Like omnifocus iphone edition.

Why you can’t have one

1. Your tied into a contract
2. You can’t realistically afford it
3. Restrictive carrier charge
4. Your mummy won’t let you

Reasons to be disappointed

1. If you’re like me, you’d be a bit miffed that they didn’t sort out bluetooth profiles - I need to use phone as bluetooth modem because this one feature has bailed me out on numerous occassions, iphone can’t do this. For example, just now I was at the harvester and had just shot out an email to a client with a bogey green banner image logo; I managed to reupload a better version over my phone probably before he received it.
2. No improvement to the camera which was crap by the standards of the day even when they first launched it, 5MB seems standard on other models now but iPhone hasn’t been upgraded
3. Still no flash support and limited pdf support

and the list goes on..

Reasons to hold back

1. Maybe it’s not so great, let the early adopters be guinea pigs for the cause
2. Other phone companies will need to compete after apple slashed prices, maybe they will offer iphone killers?
3. Does the lack of jailbreak option mean we won’t be able to do cool  non-apple endorsed things?

So it’s likely I’ll be looking for an improvement on my existing contract. It’d be interesting to collate peoples phone packages so I put together this google form - what’s your contract package?

I haven’t met anyone yet who has a better contract than what I got which is as follows:

900Xmins
Unlimited Text
2 Orange Numbers (free anytime)
Premium customer care (pretty good)
Free K800i Handset
£25 per month. . .

Does Email Replace SMS?

So doesn’t seem cost effective unless we factor in unlimited internet as THE sms killing reason to switch but does email really replace SMS? NO. Unless your mates are all sporting push-email without prohibitive data plans, you won’t match the immediacy of sms.

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