Re: Smart Phone Wars: Apple vs. RIM vs. ...the Android Operating System? [Telecom]

Geoffrey Welsh wrote:
***** Moderator's Note *****

<RANT>
I haven't bought a Blackberry or an iPhone, and I probably won't buy
the Google version, either. What gets my goat with these products is
how they're not content to sell me a device, but instead demand that I
subscribe to a "service" provided by someone they're in bed with, and
pay a monthly fee for the rest of my life when I'd be perfectly
content to do without mobile email and just have an address book.

Assuming I understand you correctly, I feel exactly the same way... which is why I bought a Motorola RAZR and, using Motorola Phone Tools, synchronize my contacts between my computer and my telephone. No data plan with the associated costs. It's no Palm Pilot, so I don't recommend it for people who want a serious PDA, but it means that I don't have to type all my phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and appointments into my phone. It also means that I won't lose that list if I lose or break my phone.

Also, although I can understand that mobile operators would want to sell you a data plan and would assume that you'd want one, but I'm surprised that there is not a company out there somewhere that will sell you a PDA/phone combo (e.g. Treo) with just a voice plan.


Well that's what Verizon sold me although they seemed totally puzzled
by my having the Palm Treo and not wanting any of their enhanced
services. The salesman finally got the idea when I began carefully
annunciating the word "no" in response to each successive query. He
started to look annoyed but I said I was beginning to think he didn't
understand me when I said "no" the first time. The amusement flashed
across his eyes and he relaxed and finished the transaction fairly
quickly. I was doing him a favor, you see, by not letting him waste
his selling time on a 'no sale' result. I give him plus marks for
appreciating the courtesy I was showing him. The true robots get
annoyed and stay annoyed.

--
Tom Horne

Well we aren't no thin blue heroes but we aren't no blackguards to.
We're just working men and women most remarkable like you.

With apologies to the Kipling trust for the paraphrasing.

.

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