SOCIAL: I need an iphone

[Geoff Davis]

I think Amandeep's distaste for Android is colored by his employment.  I
like my Nexus One a lot more than my iPhone (2G).  I'm a heavy Gmail user,
and Android just works with my mail, my chats, my contacts, my calendar,
etc.  Google Voice is awesome, too - my voicemail gets transcribed and
emailed to me, calls to my cell phone also ring my land line, and I can send
and receive SMS messages on my computer.  Everything's in the cloud, so I
don't have to manually sync anything except my music.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Amandeep Jawa <deep at deeptrouble.com> wrote:

> I have lots and lots to say about these phones - and have spent lost of
> time thinking and working with them.  I don't however have lots of time to
> write my thoughts today - but here is the snapshot version:
>
> 1) Susan - get an iPhone.  Get the best iPhone you feel like spending the
> money on.  I recommend the new one because it is sooo much better than the
> previous ones & the video calling alone is worth the price.  Since you will
> be buying a plan the only question is $100 that big of an issue.  If it is
> (understandably) get the older iphone 3GS - still an amazing phone & now the
> 2nd best phone on the market.
>
> 2) On AT&T coverage and general shittyness.  I fear it is true.  AT&T is a
> real problem, and the only asterisk I put beside my recommendation of the
> iPhone.  The choice then comes down to iPhone + AT&T drawbacks against
> Android + Verizon or Palm Pre + Verizon/Sprint.  Given how annoying and
> fiddly Android still is I can't recommend it to anyone who is not a
> computer-hackery type (Do you like installing upgrades and update son your
> computer to get the latest and greatest functionality?  Do you like fiddling
> with settings?  If so you may well prefer Android.)  Erin - If I was dead
> set against getting an iPhone for AT&T reasons, I'd get a Palm Pre - that is
> a nicer elegant phone with good UI for normal people.  Now that HP bought
> Palm, it is not going anywhere.
>
> There is reason to believe the AT&T situation will start improving soon.
>  But who knows whether that is true other than to pray. (Steve Jobs has been
> fielding questions about this and has stated this plainly - so I do tend to
> believe it)
>
> 3) On the app front, none of the other phones has anywhere close to the
> kind of things you can do with this device as the iPhone - by far.
>
> 4) At the end of the day, I'll bet money that you'll wish you had an iPhone
> given where these things are and where they are going.  The big caveat comes
> down to AT&T coverage issues, and even with that I couldn't love my iPhone
> more, or be more unimpressed with Droid.  Palm is pretty good.*
>
> 'deep
>
>
>
> * And note I don't say that because I work at Apple.  It is the other way
> around.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 7, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Ankur wrote:
>
>  I was anticipating a flood o' responses to this, and it's been
> surprisingly quiet... Susan--the new version is apparently 27% slimmer, and
> has a 5MB camera w/ flash (whereas the current has a substantially
> lower-resolution--although still pretty good--camera w/o flash).
>
> If you primarily take pictures with your phone (or want to), then I'd go
> with the new version (which is supposed to be available this summer).
> Otherwise, I bet some folks on SOCIAL are going to upgrade to the new
> version, and may have already contacted you accordingly about selling you
> their current phone.
>
> More importantly, if you plan to talk on your phone a lot, I don't
> recommend the iPhone (or rather, AT&T's network, which is not nearly as good
> as Verizon in SF, and will noticably compromise the quality of your calls).
> The iPhone IS great for checking email and web browsing and has an
> incredible app library...
>
> Hope that helps--even a little!
>
> : ) Ankur
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Susan King <funking at mindspring.com>
> *To:* "social at deeptrouble.com Social" <social at deeptrouble.com>
> *Sent:* Mon, June 7, 2010 12:20:33 PM
> *Subject:* SOCIAL: I need an iphone
>
> Last week, I finally decided to join the 21st century and plan to buy an
> iphone soon. So, there's a fancy new version out there that I am intrigued
> by, though I suspect it is a lot more phone than I need. I thought I'd ask
> folks on this list about it (the good, bad, why the version introduced today
> is better than the previous ones) and also see if one of you is planning on
> upgrading and selling your current iphone for a decent price.
>
> thanks in advance for the input.
>
> peace,
> susan
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