So what is the best smartphone
to buy? The iPhone, Nexus One, or Motorola Droid? Is it fair to say those three are the top contenders? Is Nexus One
the best Android
phone out there? If not, which is? Is Droid
better than the Nexus One? Is it a plus that the Droid is on the Verizon
network?I have never bought an Apple
product in my life. I think the world of Steve Jobs
as a tech icon, but my prejudices and business instincts are more in the direction of Sam Walton, Michael Dell
and the 99 cent pizza people.
But if the Nexus One
is to the iPhone
what Bing is to search - I never seriously tried Bing - is one better off sticking to the iPhone? On the other hand, is the iPhone
the Mac, and is Android
the Windows, the one for the masses? My instinct says go for the masses.So far I have stayed out the smartphone
welcome. Heck, I don't even have a regular cellphone. I have a prepaid. I hardly ever make or receive calls - most communication happens over email
, like Mark Cuban says, "If you can say it to me over the phone, you can say it to me over email" - and the prepaid baby is good enough for sending out Twitter
updates, which I don't anymore since I do FourSquare check ins, perfectly possible on the prepaid text. Text it to 50500.But I might have to give in soon and get me a smartphone. What should I get?
A friend livestreamed a video
of him hanging out from across the world in Asia. He was using a Ustream
application on his iPhone. That was the first time I felt like I could really use a smartphone. If I can take and upload photos
and videos in real time from wherever, that would be cool, I thought. Also on the iPhone you can exchange contact info wirelessly. Bye bye business cards. A smartphone can turn you into a power networker.On the other hand, photo and video editing has not completely migrated to the browser
environment yet. That time will come, but that time is not now.My Gmail
is my primary, but I still log into my Yahoo
Mail once in a while. It is good to be looking at the competition. An iPhone would be my way to stay a Google
person, and still stay in touch with the competition.
Otherwise I am online for so many hours each day, when I am offline, I like to smell the roses, or the subway
stench when that is what comes my way, which I compare to roses because I love the city so.Face time is important, street time is important. It is also important to sometimes waste time. You have to make room for the random thought, for the muse to strike you. And people are all the rage for me, people I know, people I don't know, contacts and perfect strangers.
But I might cave in. What would be the smartphone
to go for? Does the Nexus One have that Ustream application? I bet it does. Or should I get an iPhone in my first nod to Steve Jobs? At the risk of being called slick? I have a few weeks before I really might have to decide.What do you think? What do you recommend?
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