The Modern Cell Phone

If you’ve read this blog for any sort of time, or listened to my podcasts, you’d know that I’m an absolute iPhone fanatic. Needless to say, ever since I’ve aquired such a godly phone (as you know I would call it) I’ve had, more or less, blinders on toward other phones. I’m actually going to try to change that around, since I now know, more than ever, that it isn’t easy to keep an iPhone.

I began this slight of switchover in January, before I came back from my trip to Ohio and Chicago in buying myself a BlackBerry 8800, supposedly a great example for the brand RIM has made famous. I can say that I’m not exactly happy with it, and I’m making an attempt to reach out towards other phones.

Recently, I’ve become slightly financially unstable, and had to sell my iPhone 3G, smartly, I sold it to a good friend of mine, so I know it’ll be taken care of, the way I want it. So now, on amost a daily basis, I find myself searching around for a fine replacement.

Thanks to the iPhone, I’ve now come to need at lot from a phone:

• QWERTY Keyboard
• Internet Access (preferably 3G)
• a camera
• e-mail support
• lots of memory
• GPS
• Applications (mainly for twitter, brightkite, loopt, Qik, things like that)
• and Music playing

Looking at a lot fo the phones, this is too much for just a normal phone, but I can admit, yes, I have been absolutely spoiled with the iPhone. So, instead I’ve now just cut my list of requirements for a phone down to:

• QWERTY Keyboard (seriously, T9 does NOT cut it)
• a camera
• e-mail support
• and at least WAP support

So far, the BlackBerries are actually looking good in this arena, but unfortunately, and believe it or not, I’d prefer to be using a Windows Mobile device.

The journey marches forward…

(unless you’d like to give me your iPhone ;D)