As I approach the end of my two year contract with AT&T, naturally I’m considering the next cellphone. Do I get the new iPhone 4 or do I try something else? While I love my iPhone and will keep this 3g around at the end of the contract and use it like a iPod Touch (handy for handing to a bored kid), I’m not sure if I want to replace it with the new iPhone. I’m not that much of a fangirl that I HAVE to replace the old iPhone with a new one. Yes it has been a fave tech toy since I bought it almost two years ago.
What am I considering? The Motorola Droid X.
I read an excellent review of it here. As a developer, this phone has two advantages for me over the iPhone:
- Apps are written in Java – which as a C# developer I pretty much already know as opposed to Objective-C which has some similarities but is far more different and is a far bigger learning curve. While learning yet another language is not a bad thing, I could be up and developing Android apps far faster.
- The distribution of Droid apps is an open market – not closed like Apple. I don’t believe I would have to pay $100 to even get the SDK let alone distribute any application I do happen to eventually turn out.
- Since the language is Java, I could develop apps either on my Macs or a PC, depending on how the mood was flowing and which computer I actually felt like carrying around. With the iPhone, I was locked into a Mac. Now this is not necessarily a bad thing as I do heart my Macs, but my netbook is far lighter to
schlepcarry than my MacBook.
That’s the short list. I’m sure, given enough time, I can come up with a few more reasons. On the other hand, I’ve invested a bunch in iPhone apps. Fortunately, that won’t go to waste as I’m still holding onto the 3G and I’ve got the beloved iPad that can take advantage of all.
Anyone have an android phone and can offer up advice either way? I have some time to do further research as my contract ends in early August and the X ships finally in mid-July. I don’t want to be paying early termination like I did when I made the jump from Sprint to AT&T (though it was worth it for the iPhone). I wonder if I could get a temporary number from Verizon and then port the old number from AT&T when that contract ends… hmmmm.
Oh and since the iOS4 update, my battery indicator is flaky. Unless I reboot the phone, the indicator is pretty much stuck. Awesome. Hope that patch fix is soon.
Wait, what is that you’re saying? This is a crafty blog? Hmm. I better show some crafty pictures then post haste! Would a picture of two different crafts make up for the geektalk above?
The sock is the Roundabout Socks (rav). I finished the first one on Saturday and started the second yesterday during my morning commute. The yarn is mmMalabrigo Sock in Stonechat colorway.
The spinning is ITW Merino-Silk in the Autumn in Burgundy colorway. I’ve moved to the high speed whorl and bobbins on my Matchless. I’m going to two ply this stuff and hopefully get enough yardage for a decent lace project.
Okay, that’s all for today.
Craft on!
