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I recently decided to buy a new phone. I bought a Samsung Blackjack this time last year through AT&T and it has been a bumpy road since then. Don’t get me wrong, the Blackjack was a decent phone and I never really had any issues with it, except for the occasional crash while browsing the internet in the Windows Mobile version of Internet Explorer.
Because I am a technophile and a sucker for new technology, I decided to upgrade my Blackjack to Windows Mobile 6 back in February. Big mistake. Since then my Blackjack has had some major crashes that has caused me to miss phone calls, voice mails and text messages. Twice my phone was completely frozen when I got into weak signal areas that caused it to backtrack to the Edge network from its native 3G network functions. In those times, it was not until a few hours later when attempting to make a call and would not complete that I had to completely remove the battery to reboot the phone so that I could resume normal phone functions, like make a simple phone call. It was then that I discovered that I had missed all those phone calls, voice mails and text messages.
With this frustration came my decision to stop the madness and start shopping for a new phone, since my Blackjack had just become too unreliable. During my shopping is when I discovered that I wanted an iPhone, only because there weren’t really any great choices out there. Being a tech geek, I wanted these functions in a phone: the ability to text message with SMS, use a camera (since I had used it so much on the Blackjack), browse the internet completely and compose the occasional email. There were only a few phones I could use in the AT&T network that could perform these functions: a different phone with Windows Mobile 6, the Nokia N series phones (N95 and N810), and the iPhone. There is no way I will be buying another Windows Mobile phone and the Nokia N series phones are extremely overpriced; especially the N95. If you, reader, have been keeping up with my blog for the past few months you know that I have stated that I would never buy an iPhone (see iPhone Hype and iPhone Thoughts); for the most part it’s because of it being overpriced. Well since its release, the price has dropped and the capacity increased with 8GB and 16GB models.

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Why I will, probably, never buy a iPhone, despite it’s ridiculous price.

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Believe it or not, I am so sick of hearing about the iPhone. Despite being a total Apple fanboy and a techie, I am still sick to death of hearing about it. It has been discussed so much for the past few weeks on almost every technology podcast that I listen to, and it is the topic of all columnist on all the technology news feeds that I get on my Google RSS reader that it has drove me to complete irritation.
We now have about three more days before the release (6:00 p.m. on June 29th) and I couldn’t be happier. Not because I am excited that it is being released but because once it is out, maybe we will stop hearing about it so much.
Leave it to the media to beat a subject into the ground so much that you begin to hate the topic, or product, vehemently.

[iTunes was playing "Nessun dorma" by Pavarotti while I was writing this.]

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