I have a question for you iPhone users out there

[thewayne]

You may have heard that today Verizon has announced that it's getting the iPhone next month. There's one significant difference, and therein lies my question: do you use voice and internet access at the same time? That apparently won't be possible under Verizon as it will be limited to their CDMA 3G network. I don't think it will be a big problem for me, just wanted your opinions.

Comments

[beeyochkitty.livejournal.com]

Verizon's limitations pissed me off ages ago - I couldn't even download the pictures I took on my camera to my computer, I had to send them to their picture messaging website.

I don't blame AT&T for letting go of their exclusivity, though; iPhone users like to blame them for the phone's sluggishness, but grumbles from within AT&T imply that the iPhone is clogging up the network. I guess we'll see if suddenly everyone's talking about how crappy Verizon's is.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I don't normally use my phone to take pictures. When we switched to Verizon, we ended up with phones that had cameras along with full keyboards, they were having a two for one sale. We don't text message, but the full keyboard was very useful for entering phone book entries. I think it was the same day that we got the phones, we went to the Las Cruces renaissance faire and found some stuff to take pictures of! A short time thereafter, I was picking up my wife's meds at KMart and they had a 'today only' special selling micro SD cards for a ridiculously low price, so I bought one and used that to move the pix off my phone.

I'll just use iTunes Sync to move any pix off my future iPhone.

[kylejcrb.livejournal.com]

I, for one, welcome our Google overlords.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I lean towards the iPhone for a couple of reasons. I've been using an iPod Touch for 18 months or so. I like the interface, I like the reliability. I really don't care for Android interface, and I think part of it is the fragmentation of the Android market. If you write an Android app, you need to trap for all of the permutations that have been produced by all the manufacturers and the features they have or have not included. iPhones have one programming model, you might need to do some trapping to ensure compatibility with older versions but the basic feature set is largely the same.

Plus, I, for one, do not believe our Google overlords are entirely benevolent. They say their motto is 'do no evil', but a lot of their actions indicate otherwise. I will use their products, but I trust them to do no evil no more than I do any other major internet/computer player.

[kylejcrb.livejournal.com]

This is okay with me. No evil overlord is perfect.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I remembered another point that I meant to make. Google promotes the Android OS as open source, but you can't post bug fixes and have them put in to the code base. They've totally locked down the code base. It's open in as far as your ability to write apps for it, but that's as far as it goes, so it's no where near open as the conventionally accepted definition would seem to indicate.

This is not to say that iOS is open source, just to say that there are no open source phone systems.