So I've finally decided that I need a smartphone. I had a Crackberry for a few years, but when I started working from home I was rarely away from a PC for more than an hour or two, so a full email device was overkill and I went back to a voice-centric phone (with surprisingly little twitching or cold sweats, by the by...).
Now that I'm starting to travel more, though, I'm back to needing something that can handle email gracefully, and whatever else I think would be cool/useful. Naturally, I fired up a ChoiceBot to churn through the ridiculous amount of product info that I came across within the first few minutes of research.
Some notes:
- Prices are all based on a 3-year contract from Rogers (a Canadian carrier), because they have me bound up like a stuffed pig. I threw in a couple of "iPhone killers" that are available in the US, though, just to see how they stack up.
- A few features that many people care about (like Bluetooth) aren't in here, because it's my ChoiceBot dammit, and I don't care about those features. Feel free to make a copy of this ChoiceBot in your very own free MyChoiceBot account, however (click the "Cool features" menu), which allows you to add or delete products and features to your heart's content.
I like to think that I'm not easily swayed by hype, and that I make purchase decisions based on utility alone (maybe that's why I came up with ChoiceBot...), so I set up features that were based on my needs, and not what the iPhone offered. Bottom line: According to my buying criteria anyway, the iPhone blows the others out of the water. Having access to almost any web page with an interface that actually makes getting around a large page on a small screen not-painful... that's golden baby.
I hate to admit it, but Steve Jobs knows what he's doing.
