Why I don’t use an iPhone…

Posted on May 18, 2008

If you have been following my blog then you would know that I use the T-Mobile MDA as my phone/portable media device.  You should also know that with all US cell phone carriers you can get a discount on a new phone when you re-new your contract for another two years.  So, my contract comes due next spring and I am looking at the current products in the market that I would potentially want to get when I re-new my contract.

The newest and most popular device is the Apple iPhone.  The first thing that most people say about the iPhone is that it is expensive; but I paid $350 for my T-Mobile MDA when it first came out on the market.  So in perspective, the iPhone price is about right.

Features…this category is what I care about the most when looking at a device.  Currently with a Windows Mobile Pocket PC I can do a lot of things not to mention all of the app’s that are out there for the Windows Mobile platform.  I could get some of the features on the iPhone but I would have to jailbreak the iPhone in order to do this.  I would not have a problem jailbreaking the iPhone but even with a growing number of 3rd party app’s I would still not have the same functionality that I do currently.  

I also don’t enjoy the touch keyboard and I would rather have a physical keyboard for lots of typing on the device if needed.  So, I am looking for the next best device from HTC to stream into T-Mobiles product pipeline.

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Link to YouTube related videos: MDA vs. iPhone