Which smartphone would Paris Hilton use?
After all, we all like to think we are as smart and sophisticated as celebs like Paris Hilton, Michael Jackson, Stephen Fry (http://www.stephenfry.com/ for the non-English out there, he is something of a local phenomenon), don't we?
You can debate that in your own time, but the fact is that it is time to change my phone. For approaching 5 years I have been a Nokia man - N81 (good, showed promise), N95 (excellent, wish I was still using it) and currently an N96 (awful - hangs all the time, terrible Bluetooth installation).
I have resisted the temptation of receiving email on my phone up until now, but I think it is time to bite the bullet. I am a sucker for phones with lots and lots of features, or smartphones as the world knows them, so the choice for me comes down to these: Nokia N97 (offers loads of promise, fantastic camera, but I really don't want another experience like the N96), a Blackberry (sooo good at mobile email and better at the other stuff too now, but do I really want to join the chino and polo shirt brigade?) or, of course, an iPhone.
Every person I know who has an iPhone LOVES IT. Everybody that has a Blackberry respects it. I don't know anybody with an N97 at the moment so this is a bit hard to gauge. I know that I will find an iPhone a joy to use, and it has good Bluetooth now, with stereo music streaming. I may well wish I had moved lock, stock and two smoking touchscreens to the Apple family years ago. But the iPhone won't play Flash content, which is a bit frustrating.
If I buy a Blackberry I will no doubt get the job done but will lose interest in the sexy gadget that I carry around me.
If the N97 is as 'hangy' as the N96, it will end up thrown against the wall.
None of the options comes without financial outlay, so the decision needs thought on many levels. What sort of a phone user do I want to appear to be? A style-driven ubercoolmonkey iPhone user? A guy who is worrying about whether his PowerPoint slides are ready for his next presentation? Or the guy picking up the shattered remains of his latest gadget acquisition?
So, let's go back to the beginning: which would Paris Hilton choose? Oh yes .... The one that is available with a pink cover and covered with more Swarovski crystals than there are barnacles on a Thames barge.
Sigh ... Maybe I will put the decision off for a while.
You can debate that in your own time, but the fact is that it is time to change my phone. For approaching 5 years I have been a Nokia man - N81 (good, showed promise), N95 (excellent, wish I was still using it) and currently an N96 (awful - hangs all the time, terrible Bluetooth installation).
I have resisted the temptation of receiving email on my phone up until now, but I think it is time to bite the bullet. I am a sucker for phones with lots and lots of features, or smartphones as the world knows them, so the choice for me comes down to these: Nokia N97 (offers loads of promise, fantastic camera, but I really don't want another experience like the N96), a Blackberry (sooo good at mobile email and better at the other stuff too now, but do I really want to join the chino and polo shirt brigade?) or, of course, an iPhone.
Every person I know who has an iPhone LOVES IT. Everybody that has a Blackberry respects it. I don't know anybody with an N97 at the moment so this is a bit hard to gauge. I know that I will find an iPhone a joy to use, and it has good Bluetooth now, with stereo music streaming. I may well wish I had moved lock, stock and two smoking touchscreens to the Apple family years ago. But the iPhone won't play Flash content, which is a bit frustrating.
If I buy a Blackberry I will no doubt get the job done but will lose interest in the sexy gadget that I carry around me.
If the N97 is as 'hangy' as the N96, it will end up thrown against the wall.
None of the options comes without financial outlay, so the decision needs thought on many levels. What sort of a phone user do I want to appear to be? A style-driven ubercoolmonkey iPhone user? A guy who is worrying about whether his PowerPoint slides are ready for his next presentation? Or the guy picking up the shattered remains of his latest gadget acquisition?
So, let's go back to the beginning: which would Paris Hilton choose? Oh yes .... The one that is available with a pink cover and covered with more Swarovski crystals than there are barnacles on a Thames barge.
Sigh ... Maybe I will put the decision off for a while.
posted by Vince Holton at
09:56
2 Comments:
Did you meant to put the words "Paris Hilton" and "sophisticated" in the same sentence?
Vince: iPhones are no longer ubercool! You see them on the train in every third grubby mitt....
M
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