Yostivanich

Well I sup­pose I have to even­tu­ally post, whether or not I will get an iPhone. Read­ing all the numer­ous reviews, the pos­i­tives and the neg­a­tives. I have to say I will get an iPhone though not today, I will wait for one that will work on a 3G net­work. Let me first off say that I don’t cur­rently have an iPod, I have a Palm Pilot (Tung­sten E2) that dou­bles as my music/video player. I have two SD 1GB cards for it, one for music and videos and one for data and that is enough for sev­eral hours worth of enter­tain­ment. That is more than I gen­er­ally need, even when fly­ing all day, I don’t run out of some­thing to lis­ten to. I do have the abil­ity to work on doc­u­ments and such, how­ever I can’t pro­gram and I can’t surf the inter­net or get my e-mail. This has been a real pain for me, espe­cially since my lap­top is dead and even if I got it work­ing, it wouldn’t be use­ful on the go.

I think at this point, until an iPhone is released that will work with AT&T 3G net­work, then I’ll look at get­ting one, until then, no. Buy­ing the iPhone how­ever would be an invest­ment, for the pure and sim­ple rea­son of get­ting a full fledged browser on a mobile device. Although it wouldn’t allow me to access my cur­rent pro­gram­ing project of the month, I would be able to answer my e-mails and keep up with feeds, that would be a plea­sure in and of itself.

For every­one else, it depends on what you need and want. Do you need and want a mobile web device that has a cam­era (although a bad one), a web browser on the go (Cur­rently only Wifi or AT&T 2.5G net­work which has an aver­age speed under 100 kbps), and dou­bles as a video iPod? If so then get one, myself per­son­ally I am not that much of an Apple fan, nor do I need a iPod enough to shell over $500 plus the data plan, but I do need a mobile inter­net device, but one with a faster connection.

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