The iPhone Killer Pt.1
A couple of years ago the smartphone decission to take was: "Will I go with the iPhone 3G or do I choose a Windows Mobile 6 phone?". I remember well sitting next to my boss at our christmas party. When he heard about my thoughts he just slipped over the brand new Apple device and said: "If you have questions the answer is 'Only one button.'". I was so pissed at the time about the laggy Windows Mobile phones that I got convinced right away although I knew I would hate Apple for their "Do what we tell you to do" politics.
After two years most of my colleagues upgraded to the new iPhone 4, some switched to a Windows Phone 7 device, and others went the Android way. Mainly because I saw the need for improvements on the hardware side I felt the time is not ready for a change but I also felt it would be before another two years pass. I decided to stick with my iPhone 3G and luckily I got hold of an unused 3GS otherwise I might not have been able to wait that long. At that point I thought my next device would be Android driven.
Since then I tested every beta of iOS 5. Apple did some very necessary improvements (mainly OTA, WLAN Sync, and most of all Notifications) but it's iOS after all. It's just not sexy anoymore. I got so bored I went to a mobile store and played around with Windows Phone. If I wouldn't have found the device I am using now my next phone would have been from Redmond, that is for sure.
But what about the Android thing? Well, I had the chance to test the Samsung Galaxy S II aka i9100 for a couple of month. In terms of features it is even, sometimes better, sometimes worse than the iPhone. Otherwise, it is just ugly shit. Cheap and shitty hardware (they should also have used gorilla body and not only gorilla glass for the display), shitty UI and physical design, absolute shitty usability. While I can give the iPhone to my dad or my three year old son and be sure they get along I could never do this with an Android device. It is just crab. After four month of intensive day2day usage I am further away from Android as I ever was before. I am so glad I didn't have to buy this device.
So about a week ago I finally got my device of choice and since then I am always running around with a little smile in my face and a tickling at the ends of my underjaw. Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you...
the iPhone killer
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Originally this site was intended as a project site. The goal was to define standards for the perimeterless network using
open-source software. To be honest I simply do not have the time for such a thing. So what is left is a blog with sporadic
posts that are either helpful for myself or I think are helpful for others, too since I had a hard time finding information
on the Internet. Think of it as a knowledge base.
Ehm yes, somtimes I write down my two cents on any topic that may go through my mind at that point in time ;-)