<my .02 pesos>
I had Sprint/Nextel for some years. Increasingly more capable phones but was
always running into the fact that coverage got worse, and worse, and worse.
Switched to AT&T only to have them get into a tiff with T-Mobile not long
after, and some cooperative agreement the two had fall apart, leaving a
dearth of coverage via AT&T. Nonetheless they claimed to be taking care of
it and I stuck with them. Stuck through an LG flip phone (crappy
connectivity), a Motorola RazrV3 (crummy ergonomics) and even to the point
of getting an iPhone a year ago.
Long story short, the arrival of the Droid 2 and Droid X made it more than
worthwhile to get rid of the iPhone, which had proved to be a royal PITA.
Want to transfer your contacts? Only via iTunes, and only via cable from the
PC. Want to transfer music? Pretty much ditto. Want to transfer pictures?
The same yet again. And then downright silly crap like unchecking the sync
music portion (nothing new to add/change/delete, why sync it?) in iTunes
means iTunes promptly tells you that doing so means it will delete all music
from the phone? Excuse me?
I must not have drunk the Apple KoolAid, because, frankly, after a year of
iPhone I was ready to pitch the damn thing into the nearest lake. (And don't
get me started on the iPad, which is just a large format iPhone, without
even the phone capability). No generic USB cable hookups. No
user-replaceable battery. No user-expandable/interchangeable storage.
Crippled Bluetooth. The early termination of contract fee was a blessing,
IMHO.
So... it's now Verizon and a Droid X. Coverage is effectively seamless. Add
a contact to Google, or to the phone, and the phone or Google sees it within
minutes. Backups? Who needs 'em (even thought the Verizon backup tool is
free) as they're instant and automatic via the two-way connection with
Google. Dead simple. Mail is similarly transparent. Work mail? Not a
problem. And Swype, for text entry, makes the iPhone's 'keyboard' positively
archaic (although I can still switch back to that sort of keyboard if I
want). Music transfer? Drag-and-drop. Same with video, ringtones, etc. More
functional BlueTooth than the iPhone. If I have a cable (it's also the
charge cable, so I always have one) and access to a USB port on any internet
connected PC, I can accomplish whatever it is I can't do over Verizon's net.
And apps? Found more *useful* apps, free for the Droid in the first week
than I found for the iPhone in a year.
And best of all? No more iTunes. Ever.
</my .02 pesos>
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