Oh man I wish I had a fancy phone, although I would use it for is text messaging....lol

I just have a simple tracfone which I think is a Motorola or something like that.



SORRY FOR LACK OF TALKING LATELY I got side track :| <3 how have you been.

lol, no worries. I've been more or less side-tracked with Brooke (the new girl in my life) the past few weeks. Eye surgery went very well, and my eyesight is just ridiculously good. So add that to the myriad of toys I just got, and my life is quite good. At least in the superficial department. Which is the biggest part for me at the moment.

So... yeah.

Been following your journals to the best of my abilities, so... yeh.

I hope you enjoy your new phone :)

I could not possibly be happier with my iPhone. I can only hope you have that kind of success with yours.

Well I'm glad you're happy with your iPhone. I'd jumped ship from Verizon to AT&T back a few months ago to try out the 3G (and lo and behold, they release the 3GS a mere month or two later), and problems plagued me from the second month and onward. If the battery happened to fully discharge, or the phone just froze up whilst trying to load an app, startup took around ten minutes, and that's no exaggeration. I sat there and timed the damn thing.

I'm sure that it was most likely an isolated incident, but the fact that Apple is infamous for coming out with new revisions of their products seemingly like clockwork, combined with my poor experience combines to give me a certain dislike of Apple, which is a negative contrast to my original near-fanboy status.

The DROID, however, is quite an amazing product, and I can't see any real issues (short of the weird autofocusing problem the camera has, but the fact that this camera HAS an autofocusing ability puts it head and shoulders ahead of the 3G) plaguing me just yet.

I wasn't going to give my opinion, but since you made a point of bashing on the product with your side, I'll give the rebuttal.

If I may say, if you are aware the issues with your iphone were likely isolated, then a rational person would have had no issues exchanging the unit for another under warranty. Apple has constantly been rated as the best warranty provider in the computer industry, after all. Since you didn't choose to do that, I have to assume you didn't have the fanboy status you claim to have had :) That's fine, of course, but if you have a defective unit, exchange it.. don't rate the product based on it and assume they're all that way.

FYI, I went through five (yes, 5) palm Treo 600s before I got to the 650, and I went through 2 of those, all under warranty.

As for the 3GS coming out, well, I don't think just because a previous model was popular is enough reason to hold back new technology. Does it suck that you have an old gen phone only a month and a half after getting it? Sure, but it's still a good phone, so who cares? The only real difference is the compass, some memory, video (which you can do on the 3G if you jailbreak), and processor speed. I have a 3G and I use it all day every day for my job, and I love it. I just extended the warranty on it so I can ensure I have it working for another year at least.

As for your motorola... well, I can only hope you have better success with yours than I did with my last big M. I would NEVER own another motorola after the phone I had. Great hardware. Worst software interface I've ever seen (with exception to the sony/erikson crap).

I will rehash my previous statement. I hope you enjoy your new phone :)

Near-fanboy status. ;)

I used to want to actually get a whole slew of new Apple products, but as I said, the fact that they release new products with a combination of both minor and major revisions almost every year just feels like a sucker punch to the gut. Or the junk. Or a combination of the two. I realize technology itself is like that, but honestly, it seems far worse with Apple than anyone else. You get a new iPod now, but if you would've waited for the new fiscal year, you could've had that iPod with an accelerometer. Or an HD screen. Or a happy ending.

A bit extreme, to be sure, but I've been buying Apple products for a while now. Maybe not anything as extreme as a computer system (as I still can't rationalize that much money for something that lacks the level of compatibility that the PC platform has these days. But that's a completely different tangent, so I'll skirt around it.

I'd considered returning the 3G for a replacement, but the fact of the matter is that I'm sure AT&T (whom doesn't have quite as sparkling a reputation as Apple) would've simply told me to do what I was already doing: "Try a factory reset on it to reload it to like-new condition, and go from there." My experience with AT&T was less than stellar, and I couldn't wait to get away from them after only a few months. So that's more against AT&T than Apple, but Apple isn't completely innocent, either.

But I do concur on the note of Motorola phones. I've only had ONE before this one, the Motorola KRAVE. Got it because it seemed incredibly gimmicky and neat, and it was. But the defects on it were apparent almost immediately after I got it, so... yeah, I dunno. Anyway, I am indeed enjoying the DROID for the time being. I just need to remember to shut down all the unnecessary power-drains while I'm at work. Like, GPS and wi-fi, and... well, the other stuff.

Anyway, 's all I got. Not bashing Apple by any stretch, just... not as much my cup o' tea as I'd originally thought.