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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Day 07 – Preferred smartphone platform. And which do you use?

I prefer android. I've been wanting to switch to it for awhile and haven't been able to because of the AT&T contract that I was in, but I finally paid the cancelation fee and switched to a no contract carrier. I've used windows mobile and it really didn't do anything for me, wasn't my style. I've used iphones for awhile and while they were great before android, they've lost my respect. The 3GS, to jailbreak, you have to plug it to a computer and run the software each time....it's horrible to have to pull out your laptop, hunt the proprietary usb cable down and run the software, while in your car, outside of a client, trying to get your phone running. Then you plug it in to the car charger, come out of the client and the phone used more power then it was getting and died again anyway.....
I used blackberry for under a month and it kept crashing on me and I ran out of space quick...but the camera flash was NICE.
So yeah, I'm on android now. Froyo and a phone that's in the middle of the specs spectrum but is as good or better as the 3GS that I had. It lets me do what I want, I'm not stuck to someone else's design ideas. Widgets, direct call and text buttons, direct link to a dropbox folder, all there. USB, Bluetooth and Access Point tethering without having to root it. I've been happy with it. The lack of a lot of space on the phone itself for data is kind of annoying, especially when I have 17MB left and it says I'm almost out of space, but oh well.

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