It’s interesting how married to Operating Systems people can become. My first computer was an Apple IIGS, but then we swiftly moved to Windows. I used to join in deriding Macs, then I got one. Mac OS, especially 10 and up, became my OS of choice. However, I still used Windows (and occasionally Linux) on a daily basis. I’m basically platform agnostic. A platform is a tool, and the one that works best for you is the best… for you. There is no perfect platform for everyone, for computer or phone.

I mention this because of discussions I’ve been having with some fellow techies. This week I finally broke down and bought a Pre. The reactions from my iPhone, WindowsMobile and Blackberry using friends (Sort of sad, but I don’t personally know a single Android user – no I’ve never met Justin) were almost comical in their predictability. I even got complaints about the Pre from a fellow Pre owner… because he’s really a Blackberry user. I’m not saying they’re wrong – I’m just saying the Pre is closer to my “ideal” phone than most of those other options (In fact, I recalled a doodle I drew ten years ago and it resembles the Pre to the point of scariness).

Every phone does its job in one way or another and every phone does it for someone. The cell market is really big enough for everyone. So how about we all just calm down and let people find the right solution?

So, why is the Pre my “perfect phone” (so far, anyway?)? Click the read link and find out.

[Warning – this thing is a fricking essay. I clearly have no life.]
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Holy cow, what a week. Every time Mordy or I sat down to write a post, something else happened. I’m going to try to condense it all into one week, going by topic. Bear with me:
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Here are some interesting things from DigitalLook, but not exactly interesting enough to be their own article (no offense to the vendors, who were all awesome)

Note that I do have photos, but I seems to be mangling the photo functions of the blog, so I will be holding off on adding them.
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Well, it appears T-Mobile is finally playing catch up in the data network arena.

The folks over at tmonews.com have managed to get a picture of a sign posted outside a meeting, presumably of T-Mobile execs or some such. The sign clearly states that T-mobile will be rolling out its high speed 3G network in 27 major cities across the country, with service officially on Oct 1st.

This makes T-Mobile officially the last of the big national carriers to get 3G. This is sad because other carriers have had 3G for years, and are already announcing plans for 4G data. T-mobile’s rollout by Oct only includes 27 cities, and a fuller rollout will probably take them well into 2009- But by then, I wouldn’t be surprised if some form of 4G were already here.

The irony as I blogged about here recently, is that T-Mobile was once regarded as up at the top of the data network game. Back in the days when 2G was standard, they brought us the first Blackberry with voice, the first Pocket PC phone, popular exclusives like the Sidekick and Dash (Excalibur), etc…

The other big GSM networks got EDGE (2.5G) first, and then T-mobile sorta dragged its feet into last place with that too. Now its like they’re reluctantly bringing 3G because they’re the only ones who don’t have it yet.

I was sort of hoping that they’d just skip and jump straight to 4G or something. *Sigh*
Its almost like, why bother, T-Mobile? Your network will be obsolete by the time you finish!