I feel obliged to reply to my own post title “Apple Drops iPhone Price to $199 and Converts Blackberry Fans“, and let you know that I decided to actually stick with the Blackberry.
I feel obliged to reply to my own post title “Apple Drops iPhone Price to $199 and Converts Blackberry Fans“, and let you know that I decided to actually stick with the Blackberry.
It turned out that I’m not eligible for the upgrade price because I bought my BB less than a year ago and signed up for a 2 year contract with AT&T. So the new iPhone 3G would have cost me $399 for the 8GB model and $499 for the 16GB model – and I just can’t justify that much money for a phone and web browser.
Also, reports of the 3G’s fast internet speed indicate that it comes at the price of battery life – spent in as little as 2 hours! I can easily go for 2 days on a single charge with my Curver, and I’m not enthused about the prospects of having to plug an iPhone in for charging every few hours.
Fortunately RIM will be releasing the Blackberry Bold very soon in 2008 and it claims to have 3G speed – so I’ll keep my eyes on that one instead, and I still use my Curve around the clock for web browsing, email, texting, twitter, taking pictures, listening to music, and finding my location on Google maps.
So it’s all still very good in Blackberry land, and I know you want one of those t-shirts 😉