Mobile phone dilemmas

Picking a new phone can be quite an emotional ordeal. Do I go functional? Do I go cool? Do I use a touchpad? Do I not use a touchpad? Do I want a good camera? Do I just want to use it for work? Argh. THe questions and choices are endless.

I had a Nokia phone, quite similar to the Blackberry. It was black, functional, easy to type, easy to find contacts, send SMS and email. It sucked in the camera department and sure as the hell sucked in the car. The bluetooth function didn't work so well and it kept cutting me off in the middle of conversations. I hate carrying on a conversation in the car...and then all of the sudden, in the middle of traffic, the call cuts off. I had to turn the phone off and then turn it back on, put in a passcode and then sync it up to the car. Other than that, it was a pretty good phone. It served me well for a couple of years...and then it started to turn off in the middle of the day for no apparent reason. It wouldn't make phone calls when I asked it to and it certainly wouldn't even answer phone calls when I pressed the green button. So, I needed a new phone.

I thought that the most logical choice would be the Blackberry. Just as functional as the Nokia and probably would work better. I had my mind all set on that and then poof...there comes the husband trying to convince me that I should have the iPHone. He said that I could have all my music, audiobooks, pictures, videos etc on the iPhone. We could consolidate devices at home..meaning I wouldn't need an iPod and a phone and a camera, etc. One device for so many things.

Ok. Fine. He sold me. Everyone at work loves it. I even took a poll on FB and it seems that the iPhone won.

So I got on the iPhone bandwagon Monday night. Ease of use? Puh. Easy to send email? Puh. EAsy to send SMS? Puh. EAsy to connect in the car? Yes. Cool looking and hip? Yes. Happy? Hmmm...not yet.

Well, today, I might, I say "might" be persuaded that the phone is kind of neat. I have been listening to an audio book on my iPod and finished it yesterday. Hubby had downloaded some books onto my iPhone when he so kindly set the thing up for me. This morning, I didn't have to to use the iPhone. All I had to do was to scroll to an audio book, plug it in and poof --- listening to a novel. AND, it still funtions as a phone and I didn't have to carry two devices around.

Ok, so maybe I'll be persuaded to the dark side....just maybe.