I recently found a note from some time ago but it’s something that I still want to put here.
As mentioned earlier I once had one of the first Palm PDAs and I wasn’t that happy with that.
Last year I bought a Nokia N800 (now there’s the new and better version 810 with a small sliding keyboard and built-in GPS).
I was very happy with that because it was especially of good use during my vacations: I had a WIFI device with a powerful browser and a better display compared to most mobile phones at that time, and I also bought an external GPS mouse to use my N800 as navigation system. I even did VoIP calls with my headset plugged in with the help of the Gizmo software.
But after my vacation, I didn’t really use the N800 at home or at work. I heard of others using it parallel to watching TV or for any other purpose where you could need a mobile browser. Some even write blog entries at night lying in the bed. This is something I don’t do.
And there was another thing, I didn’t really like about the N800. First I loved the idea that it is running on Linux and you can install so many applications built for the Maemo OS. Later I hated the problems with finding and installing the right apps all the time, and sometimes they crash the whole system, etc.
I found out that I really prefer something out of the box that is working and does just everything I need and nothing more or less. That of course is also the reason why I use so many Apple products these days. And so I also had an iPod Nano (of course the old version), so it’s very comprehensible that I looked forward to get a 2nd generation iPod Touch.
So the iPod Touch replaced the N800. I decided for the iPod Touch instead of an iPhone because I wanted to keep my phone separate. I thought of many disadvantages to have everything in one device (esp. the battery capacity!), but then I really start to hate to always take both with me: the iPod Touch and my old cellular.
So when the new iPhone (3G) was released, I took the initiative and bought an unlocked and jailbroken 2G version (so that I can use it with my existing contract in germany).
Of course because of that, I can’t use any of the new features like Apple’s iPhone App Store, but on the other hand with the old 2G iPhone I have a much longer battery time, and I’m really happy with it like it is.