Been Thinking About Smartphones Lately
The choices are numerous. Make that mind-boggling. So many phones, so little time. So many features.Here's the thing. My wife's Treo 600 is on its last leg. And we have a $50 gift card from Best Buy. So the frugal thing to do is use the gift card on a new phone for her. The best we can do is get $50 off a $99 upgrade price on a phone. We would upgrade to a new Treo, but our carrier, T-Mobile, doesn't sell Palm Treos anymore. So we gotta go with the next best thing. And the one we're looking at is the Blackberry Curve.All kinds of questions come to mind. Is the Curve reliable? Will Wifey lose any apps or functionality with the upgrade? How about the transfer of contacts and calendar? I suggested she get the G1. Her finely tuned intuition told her that a decision to get the G1 would be great for me and not so for her. Ok, so no G1. I'd, err, we'd want to wait for the second generation G1 anyway.If not the G1, what about T-Mobile's other cool smartphones? Long story short, we settled on the Blackberry Curve. Reviews on CNet look good. Some anecdotal stuff on the web was very flattering. Turns out the Curve for T-Mobile is a well-rounded phone (rim shot here!, pun intended-both of them). Truth be told, I wish we were on AT&T so we could get both of us the iPhone.
