This is a follow up to a thread about 2 weeks ago. I was in the phone store yesterday checking out 2 of the best hi-tech phones.
The 1st was the latest Blackberry 8800: http://www.phonedog.com/r/c/7519-4573-167-175-500x550.jpg This phone had a lot of fancy features. It's web-browsing was faster than my old smartphone, and the menu was more user friendly. But the Blackberry's keyboard can't touch the Nokia Communicators. And the Nokia's super wide screen is the best for scrolling thru web-sites. But the Blackberry's screen had better graphics. Items like the cover page to the NSS Newsletter looked better and bigger on the Blackberry. The Blackberry did other things my smartphone couldn't do. It has a nice GPS feature, but for the money wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a separate hand-held GPS unit? It had a Push to Talk button. Those work great if you call the same person all the time, like your mistress, because you don't have to wait for the phone to ring. However, all of those features are "absolutely useless" if you don't have the income to pay the high long term monthly fees. The fees are over $ 100 and that is before taxes. That is in addition to the high price of the phone. I hate service agreements with cell companies. I used to live in a free country. Not anymore. Cell companies prefer some sort of communistic way of doing business. I could never get any of my customers to sign such an agreement, much less abide by it. The 2nd phone was the iPhone: The moment I held it in my hand, I started drooling. If someone had handed me this phone 10 years ago, I would have asked what star system did you have to travel to in order to buy this? It would be like someone showing you a microwave oven in the 1950's. But that being said, it is still just an interesting gadget. I didn't see anything that would force me to buy it anytime soon. Everything about the phone seemed user friendly, and I have never even played with an iPod. The keyboard will take some getting used to, however, it is very clever. I like the way the things-to-do list works, which in my opinion, is one of the best reasons to buy a smartphone. The camera seems to work better than other phones I have looked at. However, digital cameras are so cheap these days, that having the feature on your cell phone doesn't seem like it is worth it, especially when it is likely that future places of business are going to ban digital camera phones across the country. In summary, I think that these 2 phones show that in 10 years cell phones are going to do a lot of cool things, that will hopefully enhance our way of living. If we can ever get the cell phone companies to offer good customer service at an affordable, then we might have something. Imagine a world in 10 or 20 years, where every breathing human has a smartphone with 20 gigs of memory. Imagine hiking thru the Amazon rainforest, and stumbling across a half-naked Indian living in a hut and he is operating his web-business on his satelite-smartphone selling hand-carved bamboo flutes. David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
