iPhone Stuffs

[nekoewen]

So, I kinda jumped the gun a bit and went ahead and bought an iPhone 3GS. On the whole it is a beautiful little piece of hardware, and I expect to legitimately get a lot of use out of its features. I was looking up restaurant options and bus schedules and such before I'd even got it home, and I can see myself getting a lot of utility out of that

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[_thiefofhearts_]

Eh, you know how I stand on this and "order pizza", aside but I want to know since you mention one of the biggest problems:

Wasn't there another multi-gadget phone out there that can do this better?

[nekoewen]

There are of course various Android phones with comparable capabilities, albeit with various trade-offs. Notably, iPhone has more support on account of being older and with a larger user base. If the D&D4e app I really want ever comes along it'll most likely be for iPhone. But the real tipping point for me was that although my iPod finally died recently, it was by far the single most reliable electronic device I've ever owned. Seriously, nothing at all compares. It was a 4th-gen iPod from 2004, and according from Wikipedia six years passed and fourteen new iPod models came out while I was using it for hours a day almost every day. If I put my Xbox 360 through that much I'd probably have a stack of 2 or 3 old RROD'ed ones sitting in my closet.

[_thiefofhearts_]

Okay. That sounds fair. But doesn't the iPhone shut down second you stop paying for the service, making the longevity and usage of it's non-phone, non-internet features moot?

[nekoewen]

It does apparently still work without AT&T service as long as it was activated at some point and still has a SIM card, but really, unless I leave the country or something I'm not likely to stop having a use for a cell phone. Worse comes to worst I'll jailbreak it and still have a nifty little wi-fi multimedia thing.

[thechick]

I know the iphone has more support and following, seriously though the Android seems a lot better to me. For one there are a plethora of free apps, and being that it was made by google it will grow ginoriously and take over the world.