Those of you I have on facespaz and Instagram will be fully aware of my recent purchase already but I thought I waffle a bit on this subject.
Where do I start? Well I first dabbled in Smartphones 11 years ago with one of these bad boys:
It's an Orange SPV that was made by HTC running Windows Mobile. At the time it was pretty awesome as it had outlook which I had hooked up to my hotmail and IE for browsing the (very slow!) mobile web. Ahh the days of WAP sites, anyone else remember those?
Anyhoo, it certainly had it's flaws like it kept crashing and even had it's very own version of the BSOD. I can't remember how long I had it but eventually I changed phones and went back to a non smartphone as I didn't actually find it that useful.
Fast forward to 2009 and the world has had 2 years of the iphone, everyone is raving about it so I decide it's time to get back in the smartphone game. I'm an apple fan but I couldn't justify the expense of an iphone so when my upgrade was due I got a super cheap deal on a Samsung Tocco Lite.
Or the Samsung Tocco sh!te as I liked to call it. It kinda looked like an iPhone but it was a massive pile of turd. Apps were awful, the touch screen made me want to smash the phone with frustration and I generally hated it. I was not impressed with my re-entry to the world of smartphones. It went as soon as my 12 months were up and was replaced with an HTC Wildfire.
Hurrah, a reasonably priced Smartphone that works!!!!!!!! This phone was a revelation, helped in no part by HTC's sense UI for Android making it a breeze to use. I loved this phone for 12 months and then got drunk and left it in a taxi. Never mind, I'll replace it with a Wildfire S. I mean what can go wrong, it's the same but upgraded? Er, humm, sh!te phone syndrome strikes again. It was fine for the first 6 months but some design problems with the hardware means it constantly runs out of internal memory and there's nothing you can do about it despite moving everything you can to the SD card. It started crashing, a lot. If I didn't hang up a call first it would need the battery removing to get it working it again and a load of other problems. After 12 months I'd had enough and it was time for another change.
This time I decided to go for something a bit more top of the range. For the last 12 months I've had a Galaxy S2 as a work phone and I've been pretty impressed with it spec wise, make a cracking business phone, good for games and apps but it does feel a bit cheap. This tempted me towards and S3 but at the end of the day the iPhone 5 won out.
I like Android, I like how you can really mess about with it and configure it. iOS6 is not a tinkerers wet dream, but damn it's slick! I kinda wish I'd taken the iPhone plunge a while ago now. Like everything it's not perfect and it has it's downsides and glitches but overall it's proper nice to use.
Anyhoo, enough waffling, I expect to get flamed for being a fanboi in 5......4....3......
