[geeks] Looking for a Mobile Phone

[Sridhar Ayengar]

gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 09:15:17PM -0500, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> 
>> iPhone seems an obvious choice: cool OS, can be tethered (if you upload a
>> new carrier config file), GSM, and a plethora of third-party software.
>> However, I despise Apple's nanny attitude towards the app store, and the
>> hoops I'd have to jump through to load any software I'd want to write
>> for my sole personal use are, IMO, unreasonable.
> 
> It depends. I have only seen an iPhone for the first time last week. 
> They are
> not sold here, but many people have them. It was impressive and it was
> described to me by the owner as the "best PDA he had ever owned, but not 
> a very
> good phone".
> 
> As for aps, I assume that the day after they appear here from the regular
> carriers, around the end of September, there will be 10,000 startups 
> founded to make "iPhone Aps". I'd be surprised if there are 500 of them 
> left
> by then first of the year. :-(

I tried a bunch of different smartphones recently and the Palm pre came 
out on top for me.  I just wish it had an expansion slot.

Peace...  Sridhar