You read correctly – and noticed the play on the Katy Perry song – that I went out yesterday and bought an iPhone. I didn’t mean to… My wife was complaining that she couldn’t hear on her GoPhone so we checked and her contract was eligible for the “phone upgrade”. It’s really just a way to keep that 2 year contract thing going for the phone company. Either way we ended up with a $200 phone for free as part of the contract.
I started looking at the phones (at Wal-mart no less) and saw that they had the iPhone. From my earlier post you probably saw that I was happy with the phone before, but I didn’t like the missing API and the lack of applications. Well, with that solved, it was time to take another look.
My line was eligible for an upgrade as well and I took the opportunity to give the old Samsung the heave ho and purchased an 8 GB iPhone. I’ve already activated it, updated it, synced my contacts, email, and calendar with it, and installed an SSH client and a VPN client. In under an hour! I’m much happier now and I think in time I’ll be pulling down the API docs and having a look at those as well.
The truth though is that I really wanted a Google Android based phone. They are supposed to be coming into the line up in 2009 sometime, but I wasn’t willing to wait that long for a better alternative to the Blackjack II.