Filed under: en/Mobile
Some months ago, my SoftBank cellphone was destroyed when I forgot to take it out from my trousers’ pocket and it was washed by the washing machine. It’s time now to get a replacement. I wanted a cellphone that has standard Japanese features (e.g., 1seg, Felica, quality still and video camera), WiFi and is a smartphone. It turned out to be impossible to get all of these in one unit. I was of course interested in the iPhone, but it is so non-Japanese that it would be painful to use it in Japan, so I decided on a HTC Touch Diamond, but when I tried it, I immediately recalled my experience of using a Windows Mobile phone, it was really painful. I was a Windows mobile user twice, first when it was still PocketPC, and then Windows Mobile 5. HTC Touch Diamond uses Windows Mobile 6, but basically nothing has changed, it is still a bad idea. I then reluctantly picked the next choice, the iPhone 3G. Other than that it surprisingly failed to connect to my WiFi router (while the MacBook Pro had no problem at all), it could not connect to the Mac via Bluetooth for file exchange, and no wireless syncing, it was truly a great smartphone. Apple has really done what no other smartphone company could have done so far. I am also a Blackberry user when abroad, about the only thing that I sometimes miss from a Blackberry is its hardware keyboard. It seems that now the only way for faster typing is really using a hardware keyboard. I won’t be surprised if Apple later invent an equivalent for this, but now the software keyboard is no match for hardware keyboard for heavy keyboard use. Anyway, iPhone is really marvelous. I have used different kinds of handsets, iPhone really stands out in term of usability and functionality.
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