“There’s the iPhone and then there’s everything else.” - Sean Alamares
After weeks of trying to find an acceptable replacement to my Verizon Treo 700w, I’m throwing in the towel.
iPhone, you win.
My hesitation has been wrapped around the fact that Verizon’s network is better than AT&Ts and that CDMA is generally considered a better technology than TDMA/GSM. Moving away from either of those is a tough sell and more so since I’ve been using my Treo to bluetooth-tether with my MacBook to get online. My Treo is becoming increasingly slow for my needs and is beginning to frustrate me more and more.
I argued, and convinced Justin, that the only way to make the iPhone work was to separate data and voice and get a dedicated data card, which we both did, only it’s taken me longer to mentally separate them. I argued, or have since come to agree, that EDGE is good enough for most tasks (but not when I need my laptop online).
I even went so far as buying a Sprint HTC6800/Mogul and was very close to porting over to Sprint. Compared to my Treo, the phone’s fantastic! It’s fast. I can run Google Maps. I can run Opera. I can run Minimo. I can’t do any of that on my Treo. I’d even go so far as to saw I liked Windows Mobile 6.
But Sprint’s coverage was horrible. I had no service at Mozilla’s primary Data Center in San Jose unless I stood by the lady’s room. I have only one bar at my house and could barely make calls and if I crossed the street to the other housing divisions, I had no service.
Verizon, on the other hand, doesn’t have any interesting smartphones. I’d go for the Blackberry Curve if they had it.
After some agonizing, it’s become clear that the iPhone really is the best phone after using it on occasion and after realizing my kids would get a kick out of watching “Little Einsteins” or whatever on it, anywhere. And then I read John’s post and it suddenly became a must-have.
(I concede that not having local apps sucks but the only local app I have on my Treo is some BART planner so I can let this slide.)
So Justin, and Apple - you have me again. Now, which store has inventory?