To people who don’t know (cave dwellers perhaps), an iPhone is a phone made by Apple (except when it’s made by Linksys) and on Monday, Apple brought out a new one. I’m now torn between 3 phones (I class blackberries as one phone). The blackberry (probably the Pearl 8100 because it comes on a £25 contract on o2), the Nokia N95 which a few of my friends have and the new 16gb iPhone. I’m happy to admit I’m an apple fanboy. I own an ipod (well it’s one of the three I won but the only one I haven’t sold), an old PowerBook G4 laptop and a brand new MacBook Pro (not to mention 2 old towers, 7200 and an 8200 but they’re going in a skip soon) and I even have a t-shirt with “Mac Daddy” written on it. I’m cool.
I’m currently using my old 7210 as my business mobile phone. I got a free Virgin Mobile sim online and it came with a free £5 balance and a decent number. So once the money’s gone I’ll move the number to o2. I much prefer o2, other than being an ex shareholder (before they were bought by Telefonica), I actually get a signal in the house.
The iPhone is tempting but it has a few missing features/problems in my view:
- It’s only got a 2 megapixel camera (no flash and no video recording)
- Can’t do video calls
- No MMS (which even my old 7210 from 6 years ago can do
but damn it’s shiny.
The Nokia N95 is a very good phone and keeps with a similar interface that I’m used to (I’m a long time Nokia user). It seems to have all the features a smartphone could ever have but:
- No push email
- OS is prone to crashing
- It’s a bit of a brick
It’s a tough one but I’m impressed by it. Only problem is I don’t want to get the same phone as my friends!
The Blackberry Pearl 8100 is Rim’s attempt at making a business phone appeal to more than just business users. I’m not convinced they do it very well. Problems in my eyes include:
- No 3G
- An even worse camera than the iPhone (1.3 megapixels) and again no video recording
- No wifi
- No GPS
It’s a good phone for what it does, phoning people but I kinda want more. It’s more just a status symbol. “Yes, I have a Blackberry and when I go abroad on international business I still receive those emails advertising viagra”.
Right, well this sorted out nothing. Maybe I’ll get the blackberry for business and the iPhone for pleasure (and the N95 for dirty weekends in Blackpool).