take that, iphone

iPhone, iPhone, iPhone. It's all you hear these days.

For some reason I don't really like the iPhone. I played around with one earlier this week, and despite being impressed with the screen quality and the ease of navigation (I found the user interface to be very intuitive), I'm not sure what it is about it that turns me off. It could be the;
- lack of MMS
- no bluetooth A2DP
- no bluetooth file transfer
- no radio
- currently no turn-by-turn GPS navigation (that I know of)
- lack of camera flash
- no video recording
- no video calls
- can't copy and paste
- non-removable battery (like my iPod nano, grr...)
- unexpandable memory
- bulkiness
- relatively high cost

Actually, I think it's just because there is so much fuss over it. Don't get me wrong, I reckon that it is a great phone. I just wouldn't buy one. In the above I was just being really nitpicky and trying to prove that it isn't the ultimate bestest ever phone in the whole wide world.

My current phone (Sony Ericsson w880i) has been bugging me lately - sometimes when you tap it a little too hard (and I don't mean hurling it across the room or out a high rise window, but putting it down on the table) it turns itself off, and the same happens sometimes when I put it in my pocket. Also the connector for the charger, handsfree etc is a bit loose, and you have to jiggle it around a bit to get it working - sometimes I plug in the charger and go to bed, and wake up the next morning to find that it hasn't charged at all. I got it for the slimness rather than features, but in the year I have owned it I have found the little features lacking a little frustrating. Halfway through my 2 year plan and I am over it.

So I wanted a new phone. For weeks I obsessed over the HTC Touch Diamond. I liked its compact size, physical design and sharp VGA display. However, key downsides were the 4GB internal storage and lack of microSD slot, low battery capacity. I almost got it though, primarily for its compactness. I spent weeks staring at it online. Even went to the Telstra shop when it was released in the country (exclusively by Telstra... grr) several days ago for a touch (pun intended).

Two nights ago I changed my mind abruptly for whatever reason and picked out a different phone. Today I cracked and just impulsively bought it. Don't know what got into me. I have buyer's remorse. Feel so silly about buying something I didn't really research into. I won't talk about it now or tell you what I chose... you'll have to wait and see. What I can tell you though is that it is not yet released down under (and no date has been set yet either), so I had to get it imported from overseas. Will blog about it when it arrives. Hopefully soon. Very soon.