Jumped.
So then after a hell lots of consideration, I went and dunnit. I jumped. To the other side. Yes, ladies and gents, I've gone and changed my phone to the iPhone 4. It wasn't really a change per se 'cause I still have the nokia e63, but you get the point.
To lay abit of the grondwork, essentially my mobile price plan on the previous plan had come to its end, and to keep me with them Singtel gave me a $100 voucher to recontract. All these while, I kept thinking that I'd want to get the blackberry bold 9700 when the time came, but when it did come, i decided that perhaps i'd want to look around first.
So the Bold 9700 first. The main plus point of the phone for me, really, is the pushmail, i realised. I also liked the style factor, in the sense that people who used it tended to be associated with being more corporate and professional than them ipeople on the other side of the fence. Trying out my friends' phone, I found the surfing to be relatively smooth. The experience was marred though, by the fact that the screen was rather small, and in the words of a friend I sought an opinion on, 'a bit of a joke'. I found the buttons a little small (and this coming from a user of a full qwerty keyboard on the nokia), but they were nice to press and firm to the touch. What I didn't like also was the fact that the phone was so light!
Thoughts process-wise, I then weighed the pros of the blackberry against those of the ipone 4. Can the iphone also do the things that the blackberry can do? I zeroed in on the email portion. To me, both were capable of allowing the user to check their mails, but the blackberry could automatically push it on to the phone, allowing the user to read his mail as a text message. Was that important to me, though?
After some deliberation I decided that perhaps not. I still needed to check my web-based mails (i can't in office due to firewalls), but i really didn't mind physically going onto a browser to read them. In fact, i think i'd prefer that. Part of the process of checking mails online, to me, includes surfing the web. I like the colours that one is able to view when checking mail. I also agree with a friend who said that he'd get the iphone in a flash mainly due to the availablity of applications. These give immense capability to the phone, and i'm inclined to agree.
So yes, in the end it was the iphone. Bought it at Hello! Singtel (didn't get a very good experience, but thats another story for another time), came home, set up an itunes account, and am now downloading apps.
I hope i dont regret my decision.
To lay abit of the grondwork, essentially my mobile price plan on the previous plan had come to its end, and to keep me with them Singtel gave me a $100 voucher to recontract. All these while, I kept thinking that I'd want to get the blackberry bold 9700 when the time came, but when it did come, i decided that perhaps i'd want to look around first.
So the Bold 9700 first. The main plus point of the phone for me, really, is the pushmail, i realised. I also liked the style factor, in the sense that people who used it tended to be associated with being more corporate and professional than them ipeople on the other side of the fence. Trying out my friends' phone, I found the surfing to be relatively smooth. The experience was marred though, by the fact that the screen was rather small, and in the words of a friend I sought an opinion on, 'a bit of a joke'. I found the buttons a little small (and this coming from a user of a full qwerty keyboard on the nokia), but they were nice to press and firm to the touch. What I didn't like also was the fact that the phone was so light!
Thoughts process-wise, I then weighed the pros of the blackberry against those of the ipone 4. Can the iphone also do the things that the blackberry can do? I zeroed in on the email portion. To me, both were capable of allowing the user to check their mails, but the blackberry could automatically push it on to the phone, allowing the user to read his mail as a text message. Was that important to me, though?
After some deliberation I decided that perhaps not. I still needed to check my web-based mails (i can't in office due to firewalls), but i really didn't mind physically going onto a browser to read them. In fact, i think i'd prefer that. Part of the process of checking mails online, to me, includes surfing the web. I like the colours that one is able to view when checking mail. I also agree with a friend who said that he'd get the iphone in a flash mainly due to the availablity of applications. These give immense capability to the phone, and i'm inclined to agree.
So yes, in the end it was the iphone. Bought it at Hello! Singtel (didn't get a very good experience, but thats another story for another time), came home, set up an itunes account, and am now downloading apps.
I hope i dont regret my decision.