Phones!

blog post about phones!

So now I have used almost every flavor of smart phone on the market currently.

Windows Mobile: I’ve had a Windows Mobile phone for the longest.  It was the first smart phone I bought, and well it was terrible at first.  Sprint HTC Touch.   Slow, buggy and kind of a pain to use.  Then I started loading custom ROMs on it.  I think right around when Sprint released the update that enabled the GPS to work.  Since the custom ROMs it has been better to use.  But not great.  If the hardware is good and some custom ROMs are available I’d consider getting a new one.

Blackberry: I’ve had these for awhile too in a work situation.  They are great little devices.  The UI is kind of lacking, but for messaging they work like a charm.   I never used it for anything personal though, all work related.  The Blackberry data plan would keep me from getting one for myself.

Android: I had wanted a HTC Hero for awhile, but I can’t upgrade the phone on my plan without upgrading the plan.  Eventually I got one from work, because they wanted to test out how Android works and all that fun stuff.  I am waiting for the 2.1 update to happen before I make up my mind on it.  It isn’t slow and it works with just about everything.  It does excellent email, exchange and gmail contacts.   The exchange support isn’t that great, it can’t do look ups so all the contacts have to be in your personal contacts.  Annoying.  I’m hopping that gets fixed.

iPhone: This is the most recent work phone.  I’ve had it for a week now.  I’m torn on how I feel about the thing.  It does somethings really well and others I wish it could do better.  It is a great toy.  I have mine jailbroken so I can squeeze a little more functionality out of it.  I don’t like how it doesn’t have good gmail capabilities if you have it connected to exchange.   If i want my Gmail contacts I have to buy an app for it.  It does do exchange look ups over active sync which is great.   No Google Voice app, just a webapp which works well enough.  That is my main issue.  Also the email system on it feels clunky and terrible.  I think windows mobile handles multiple accounts better.   But the device itself is nice, everything usually feels responsive.

I think I had more of a reason for writing this before I started, but I can’t remember now.