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New Mobile Phone

I'm sure you'll be pleased to here that I have another new mobile telephone!

In October 2009, you may remember that I received an iPhone 3GS, well it proved to be a short-lived phone.  Before I had the iPhone 3GS, I had its predecessor, the iPhone 3G; both were great phones, the 3G more than the 3GS - more on this upcoming!

So, you'll be busting a gut to here that I now have  a Blackberry Bold 9700.  Now, you may be wondering, why I changed and how I changed so early.

First and foremost the reason I changed was because I pure and simple was bored of the iPhone.  After having the 3G for 1 year, and the 3GS for 3 months, I was getting fed up of a touch-screen phone.  However bored I was of the touch-screen, I wouldn't have gotten rid of it until the screen smashed whilst on holiday at the end of December.  By the way, in NO WAY (no joke here) did I mean to smash the phone's screen: it fell out the pocket of my shorts when I jumped, landed on its bottom and cracked.

Fair play to Apple, however, as the phone did work with a smashed screen - which I was surprised at - however it was a health hazard!  I could have sent it away for mending, by the insurance company, but luckily I was due a phone from O2 anyway.

I hear you say "how the hell can he be due a new phone only 3 months after receiving one", well you are right.  I'm lucky in that when I got the 3GS, it was a new contract that was taken out for my sister - but she got my old 3G and I manage to wangle to get the 3GS!  It is all pretty messy...

Anyhow, I chose the Blackberry Bold 9700 to get away from the iPhone, and I have to say: I don't miss the iPhone one bit.

The email client on the Blackberry is so much better.  I never used to be able to get my Microsoft Exchange emails directly to my iPhone (had to log into Webmail every time), but now the phone alerts me when I have an email.

I also much prefer the physical keyboard on the Blackberry compared to the on-screen one of the iPhone.

As for Apps for each phone, I grant the iPhone has a better (much better) app collection, but I never really used them - apart from the Twitter app.  Now that Blackberry has its own Twitter app, I'm as happy as Larry (who is Larry anyway?)

The thing I most miss from my iPhone is iTunes.  I used to love how well it integrated into iTunes - but the Blackberry does the job - and it copies Playlists.

Overall, I'm happy with my choice.