so i got a new phone

after a disappointing night at dooms on saturday night i needed some sort of retribution. seeing that someone stole my phone (rip k800i) while i was getting raped by the security guard, i thought it was finally time to get an iphone.

or was it?

being a canadian citizen is a pretty sweet deal if you want to go down to the states to pick up a bomb ass ed hardy sweater for 50% of what you’d get it up here, but it’s proportionally as painful as not having the iphone up here. well, it is up here, but who is going to pay $200 for rogers’ unlimited plan covering 100mb a month (which any average netaholic would blow through in about 3 hours).

everyone talks about how great it is, so here’s my $0.02 on why it sucks to be a canadian with an unlocked iphone:

1. warranty: as soon as your iphone is unlocked, say goodbye to your precious warranty. most will say who gives a fuck, but you will–as soon as your internal battery dies. even if you did have a valid warranty and lived in the states, there’s a 3-4 day turnover where you have to send your iphone in to get apple to replace the battery. i couldn’t even last a day without a phone that i had to go out and buy one the day after someone jacked it–dont know how anyone could live 3-4 days without one.
2. visual voicemail: think about this one for a sec. yeah, you get no visual voicemail…a feature you never had before. so whatever. but really, because the iphone uses visual voicemail, it does not alert you when you receive conventional voicemail. how the hell do you know if someone leaves you a message? question for the ages…
3. mass texting: i personally text about 10-15 people with a generic message every time i want to go out for an impromptu evening of drinking and/or debauchery. how am i supposed to do that with the iphone?! yeah– no mass sms’ing with this baby.
4. price: $600 for a ho-hum phone? i dont know about that. my old k800i was 500, but that baby had a 3.2mb camera. with this phone you get 8gb of internal memory? hm. ipod classics go for 400 with 160gb of space. this is basically an ipod shuffle with a phone attached to it. and for 5 times the price.
5. data: this has to be the biggest issue. no one is going to pay rogers the ridiculous $200/month for about an hour of downloading.

conclusion: i got a blackberry curve 8310. haha. it was a hell of a lot cheaper than any other fancy japanese phone i’d probably get ($400) and it does a whole bunch of other stupid shit that i never would even care for. one of the best features is the holster function. u can set it to have a different tone/vibe when u have it in a holster. better than turning it on “silent” mode or whatever.

it was a bitch syncing it with my mac, but 5 minutes of reading solved the problem and now i’m set. i’m happy with this phone, and i will be until the iphone is brought up to canada. and the price dropped by a couple hundie