Inches away from an iPhone…

Posted under A Geek Dad's Life, Blog Posts

The is the moment in my life when I reject dogma and accept the inevitable.  I am buying an iPhone. 

I have been holding out for the Windows Mobile team to produce a winner.  I have suffered through countless mediocre Windows mobile phones while the iPhone team quietly built a phone that has EVERYTHING I WANT.  GAAAAHHH!! The iPhone has a Cisco VPN Client, an RDP (Remote Desktop Protrocol) client, Exchange Mail Server integration… and it is just plain cool.

I love my Zune, and I love the Zune software, and I love my XBOX, and I love my Windows Media Center, and I love SQL Server, and I love the .NET Framework, and I love Visual Studio.  I even love my Vista laptop.  Really! 

Alas, I have been waiting for some hint of a well-crafted mobile phone platform initiative from Microsoft, but all I have seen are vague mentions of Windows Mobile 7 operating system (with some crazy-stupid ideas about using the camera for motion/attitude sensing), and some mentions of the Zune mobile software being loaded onto Windows Mobile 7 devices.  Whatever.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.  I am seizing it.  I am no longer going to wait for a Microsoft Mobile phone that rivals the iPhone.  I am switching carriers (goodbye Verizon!) and will be shelling out $2,000 over the next two years to buy an iPhone.  I’ll spend another few hundred on accessories and software. When Microsoft builds a better (or equal) phone, I will buy it.  Meanwhile, Apple is getting my money.

BTW: Please don’t e-mail me about the gPhone, that slackware piece of garage-tech that only a Ham Radio operator could love.  The gPhone has a long way to go, and will likely go the way of the Java desktop app.

Now, where do I get an automatic podcast creator app for my iPhone?