18
2008
Inches away from an iPhone…
Posted under A Geek Dad's Life, Blog PostsThe 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?
I’ve just received the HTC Touch HD. My fellow IPhone owners are jealous. It’s a seriously beautiful and functional piece of kit. It’s amazing how much work HTC has done to hide the underlying winmo OS. The screen at 800×480 allows me to RDP without panning. The opera browser is as good as safari. While it doesn’t have multi-touch, it’s screen works well with a stylus (unlike the iphone) so doing things like RDP is just a joy.
It has voice recorder, FM radio, full bluetooth, 5MP camera (which isn’t great TBH), and the piece that’s really important for my use – can run background apps. So I run a simple RSS aggregator, IM, an incoming call firewall (blocks callers who have withheld their caller ID) and perhaps skype when I get around to installing it.
Seriously have a look
Don’t agree with you on the Android front though, Google != Sun.
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