From HTC to iPhone
I’ve been an HTC phone user for quite a few years (and Qtek before that), and while I’ve positivly *loathed* Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0, 6.1 as operatingsystems, I’ve been hanging on because of the excellent Exchange-integration, calendaring, contact-sync etc. In fact, I’ve been addicted, and outsourced much of my remembering appointments and tasks to the phone, in true GTD (Getting Things Done) spirit.
In 2008 I got the 1st generation ipod touch, and it was truly a revelation! I started listening to podcasts on that device, eventually it got support for mail and apps and all that goodness. I kept up with OS revisions but as functionality was added, the hardware on the 1st gen touch was not good enough. I then swapped it for a 3rd gen touch, and has loved this device to death. It’s been in use literally evey day, for casual surfing the web, reading up on rss news, books, and for music, playing games (Angry Birds craze! 
) no to mention the hundreds of more-or-less useful utilities of the appstore!
Meanwhile I’ve had the HTC S740 in this same period, and while it’s been “ok” as a phone, great for calendaring and contact-sync, (and horrible for everything else) I’ve had to carry around two devices, always needing to keep two battery-chargers handy and so forth. It was time to give the HTC the heave-ho and after careful consideration (my app-ecosystem, my wife has an iphone etc) I landed on an iPhone 4. Yes I know Windows Phone 7 is coming real soon, and yes I think it will be a killer, and yes I want to create apps for it, and yes there’s that Android-thing… Still I want/need to go the iphone-route for now. When the next hardware refresh cycle comes along, I just might go to WP7, who knows..
So after waiting a very long time for the iPhone, due in part to a delay in our supply-chain, I finally got the iPhone yesterday. Damp, shivering hands unpacked the beauty and I got it working in about half an hour by the usual Apple ease-of-use; restoring a previous backup of my ipod touch – gotta love that!
Imagine my disappointment when I realized that the ear-speaker on the phone was dead. Tried resetting, tried rebooting, but no. So I have to return it, wait for either a) the next shipment of phones to our supplier, or b) the repair of this device. Whichever comes first. Meanwhile I’m back to the HTC..
