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Reasons For Choosing (Or Not Choosing) An iPhone

This topic seems to be very popular in today’s mobile wireless world. “Why should I get an iPhone…. or why should I NOT get an iPhone? The answer doesn’t have to be as complicated as many make it out to be. Of course personal preferences play a part… but you can simplify an answer down to some basic considerations.

Beyond these… you’re just nitpicking.

For example…….

The reasons why you should choose the iPhone are:

- Ability to check email from anywhere

- Ability to find my way with either the Maps or the Say Where app (great free app - you just speak where you want to go and it maps it out for you so you don’t need to type when you’re driving)

- Ability to easily find what I’m looking for - even if it’s a last minute thing - iWant app is an awesome free app that allows you to find anything from gas stations to cinemas - comes in handy when you’re in a new area

- Ability to use the iPod - don’t need to carry around a separate piece of technology to listen to music

Basically it comes down to the fact that you now have one piece of equipment that is your Phone, Calendar, Music Player, Maps, Camera (when you actually need one). Being that your iPhone is used for everything…. make sure you keep backups - sure don’t want to lose anything.

As far as reasons not to choose the iPhone, it just works until…

… the internal battery dies outside of warranty

… you want to enter more than one APN (commercial data plan, corporate mail server)

… you want to use a music service other than the inbuilt iPod while… well, doing anything else other than using that single service

… you want to do background downloading

… you want to store more than 32GB of stuff on memory cards and swap them

The iPhone is great for consumer grade stuff. Android has been bu Read the rest of this entry »

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Maemo N900 New Network Partner - Nokia N900 on O2

The new Maemo powered Nokia N900 has finally found its way onto the O2 network with a range of competitive tariffs released for this latest Nokia phone. The N900 was originally introduced to the market back in early December last year as a SIM Free and unlocked mobile phone, since its initial release the Nokia N900 has gone on to be launched on Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile pay monthly contract deals and with this latest release now has more tariffs to choose from then ever before.

The Nokia N900 is the manufacturers first device to feature their brand new operating system Maemo, this provides slick menu navigation, multiple homescreens and support for many new applications which can be downloaded from the Ovi Store.

The main features of the new N900 include a 5.0 mega pixel camera with advanced features and video recording capabilities, a large 3.5 inch high resolution touch screen and a handy slide out Qwerty keyboard for an alternative to the on-screen Qwerty touch screen keyboard for text input when writing emails, updating social network profiles and text messaging.

The Nokia N900 is by far the most advanced handset to be released by the manufacturer to date and has little competition apart from within its own ranks and that of the flagshiop models from other manufacturers. These include the Nokia N97 Mini which is a ‘lighter’ version of the original N97 model making it a more pocket friendly device and the recently launched Nokia X6 which offers the same 3.2 inch touch screen as the N97 mini but is a more music focused mobile phone.

As mentioned, the top-end models from other manufacturers also make for good alternatives, the biggest competitor at present has to be the Motorola Milestone which offers a similar form factor by having a slide out Qwerty keyboard and also a 5.0 mega pixel camera although this is an Androi Read the rest of this entry »

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