Smart Phone Wars

Scott Horowitz | January 3, 2010
For the last 3 years, I've been using a Windows Mobile Phone, the most recent one having Windows Mobile 6.5.... I've been very disappointed with the Windows performance (having to reset my phone multiple times a day).. Last Week I bought the HTC Hero

Hero

This is an Android 1.5 powered beauty... I did miss my actual keyboard for about 5 minutes, but this virtual keyboard is amazing. Just wondering what everyone uses.

I checked out the blackberry and find them boring. the Iphone is only on AT&T... and I have an iPod touch but most iPhone users in the NYC area complain about service and internet speed... and i'm on my company plan and we're on Sprint. I really did not want to go Windows, and have been happy with most google products.

I love this bad boy, and look forward to the Android 2.0 update soon.

Erik Bates | January 4, 2010
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Dave Stoppenhagen | January 4, 2010
According to Ralph De La Vega the problems w/ the iPhone in NYC are customers fault. (Very sad but very true story)

Tony Peters | January 4, 2010
oh come on dave you can't be serious? it sounds like you are saying people are stupid.

Scott Horowitz | January 5, 2010
Being a NYC user... I can tell you it isn't a user.

We lined up a droid and an iPhone 3GS right next to each other and pulled the same youtube video up at the same time... the droid was halfway done with it by the time the iPhone started.

-Scott

Scott Hardie | January 6, 2010
I have to confess, all of the dropped calls and interference with cell phones is making me long more and more for a land line. I just want something that can make a reliable call so I can have a conversation; why is that so hard? Unfortunately, even if I wanted to go back to having a land line, I wouldn't be able to keep it for long, as AT&T says it's a dying business (link):

"...the business model for legacy phone services is in a death spiral. Revenues from POTS [Plain Old Telephone System] are plummeting as customers cut their landlines in favor of the convenience and advanced features of wireless and VoIP services. At the same time, due to the high fixed costs of providing POTS, every customer who abandons this service raises the average cost-per-line to serve the remaining customers. With an outdated product, falling revenues, and rising costs, the POTS business is unsuitable for the long run....

Due to technological advances, changes in customer preferences, and market forces, the question is when, not if, POTS service...will become obsolete."

Dave Stoppenhagen | January 8, 2010
Ralph does think people are stupid. Just like Big Ed Whitaker did when he ran the company and Randall Stephenson