iPhone

For the past years we've had Blackberrys in this house. Both our phones have after extensive use slowly been dying and the last couple of weeks my phone stopped doing basic stuff. It was time to put it to rest or I would just carry around a useless piece of metal.

Since I do a lot of social networking and is a curious person - I really wanted to switch to an Android phone. But our cell phone operator, the sad AT&T, do not have any Android phones yet, and no indication that anyone is upcoming. We can't switch to Verizon, which has way better 3G, since their phones don't work internationally and I have to leave the country a couple of times a year. And since I'm going to be travel next week I really need a reliable phone, right now, - it's my lifeline when on the road.

Alas - the only thing left to do was to get an iPhone...

So now I've had my iPhone 3Gs 32GB for a couple of days and is slowly getting used to it. One day I might even be able to type on it...

Oh, how I miss so many functions of the Blackberry and oh, how many cool features the iPhone has.

The notification and lack of real push is driving me nuts! I have to do so many clicks to check my four mailboxes... and then mess comes in another place... And I really really miss the customizable home screen - where I could quickly glance on my latest incoming e-mails, calendar posts - or just take a quick look at the phone to check the blinking light to show I even had to turn it on to check a new mess. And I loved how the Blackberry connected Facebook with address book so I only got notifications in my Facebook app (and not in my inbox too) and it picked up photos of friends in my address book.  The lack of a smart IM push function almost made me return it. For years me and the Husband has been talking on the Blackberry Chat, then lately on Google Talk on our smartphones, something that needs extra apps and settings to work on the iPhone.

Oh, well.

I love the screen and the access to some very nice apps on the iPhone and the general feel. And the browser is great and the TweetDeck great, the TED and CNN apps are fantastic, I love having access to my Google Reader Feeds in the Newsstand app. And my BlackBerry wasn't 3G and this is - what a difference. And - I don't have to bring my iPod Classic 5th Generation iPod when travelling. And maybe an O3 3.3 will solve some of the things that now seems basic in comparison to Android, Pre and Blackberry. We're going to become good friends.

And most of all - I now have a working phone again.