How hypocritical is that! Ha. I spent the last year trying to convince myself how horrible it would be to buy an iPhone –the pricing, the early adoption woes, and of course…Rogers. Let’s get this straight, I love my Blackberry. The keyboard is awesome, and it’s so functional as a mobile device. The only problem is the coolness factor. That which the iPhone reeks of.
When the 3G iPhone first came out (July 11, 2008), I laughed when my friend texted me saying she waited in line at 7am only to wait until 1pm when the Rogers network was back up to complete her phone upgrade. I couldn’t believe the stupid shit people would do for this piece of metal. The next day, Saturday, I was doing my ritualistic Facebook stalking and noticed a friend of mine uploaded a picture from his new iPhone. It’s not a new feature that I haven’t used before, but it was just a sense of convenience and panty-droppage that caught my attention. My Blackberry allows me to upload photos, but that would actually be useful if the camera worked. I always said I’d wait until the Bold comes out before I get a new phone, but the taste of glory was $200 and a hop-skip-and-a-jump away to my closest Rogers store.
Luckily my friend happened to have one left at his location, and totally didn’t put it aside from me (because all the reps know that you’re not supposed to do that:). After about 20 minutes, and a couple Belmonts later, I had this pimp ass iPod which allowed calls, mobile Internet access, GPS, and expandability of downloadable applications. Sorry, but I’m a sucker for a pretty face–and this phone has a beautiful one.
Not long after I got it, I swear I almost hit 3 cars on the way home while I tried to check my Facebook and figure out how to use the GPS. The fact that I would let this device endanger my own life to use it is proof enough that it’s pretty damn boss.
A few days later I actually figured out how to use the damn thing. GPS saved my ass while my gas light blinked on the highway. You have no idea how awesome realtime GPS tracking and landmark searching is until you hear your car sputtering while doing 120 on the 91. Conveniently enough, later that day I found out one of my favorite Italian restaurants closed down, but I didn’t realize until I drove 50 fucking km out of the way to find out. Luckily my iPhone pinpointed 3 other locations within a 10km radius, and the night was saved!
Don’t get me wrong… I still think the keyboard sucks monkey balls. That’s why I still have my Blackberry. You may think it’s silly, but holy convenience Batman! I do all my texting and pinning from a real qwerty keyboard, while I do all my online rasping with my iPhone. Right now my bill has increased by about $40 by adding a new device to my Rogers account. In 3 months after my Blackberry plan is available for change, I’ll strip the berry of its voice usage, and use it only for texting and pinning. Meanwhile I’ll beef up my iPhone’s voice package and all in all for two devices I’ll be paying approximately $90/month (which is what I would currently be paying for my single Blackberry device).
Mind you it wasn’t easy getting a plan like that. This post isn’t a guide on how to bitch at Rogers for their ridiculous prices, rather a tool for me to brag about how awesome my deal is. Remember, it’s not what you know, but who you know and what they can do for you.
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The cpu is tagged as just a bit newer model number but it and also the GPU are most likely the similar pace as the 3GS. The old Contact using the same CPU and GPU as the 3G was quicker. Besides getting the clock pace turned up greater the Contact has less software to run since it is not a telephone. It should do better than any iPhone to this day in overall performance.