(a) My office-issued Blackberry is free, (b) my six-year-old flip phone is still the best form factor as a phone-only, and (c) I spend relatively little time needing "mobile computing", as I sit at a PC all day and near a PC most of the night. The commute, between computers, is 20 minutes (and it's not good to be on the mobile machine while driving, in any event). All this leaves me happy to "wait and see" . . . not sure what I am waiting for, but maybe it will be time to make the move (a) when the bugs are out of the iPhone 5 (and Google maps is in) or (b) some screaming Android machine "Wow"s me.

I know that the minute I make the move, I'll wonder why I waited so long, but for the moment, I'm happy where I am.

Jeff

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: Some people flock to everything from Apple, but I don't own
: anything from them bar two iPhones. I don't fancy a MacBook,
: there are better offerings for less money, and my MP3 player
: isn't an iPod. So I wouldn't tar everyone with the Apple sheeple
: brush George.

: And Google Maps app is awaiting approval, rather than being
: excluded from the App Store. And nothing stops you from using
: Google Maps in the browser. I do miss StreetView but it's only a
: couple of clicks away in Safari.

: iTunes is annoyingly restrictive but it is straightforward and, as
: long as you don't let in manage your music collection, it's not
: really obstructive from day to day. What that restriction does
: mean is that the iPhone market is less fragmented, so your
: device is probably more likely to run the latest version of iOS
: than an Android equivalent is to run the latest build of
: Android, at least in a reasonable timeframe because of the
: customisation Android phone makers like to add to the OS.

: If you want to fiddle with your phone and make changes at a deep
: level, then Android is definitely the way to go, if you want it
: to work straight out of the box then Apple might suit you
: better. It took less than 5 minutes to have my iPhone5 set up
: exactly as per my 4, for example, including all the mail,
: messages, apps, diary entries, contacts etc etc. I thought that
: was pretty impressive.

: You pays your money you takes your choice really. Samsung hardware
: on Android, and Sony now they've ditched Ericsson are playing in
: the same park as Apple and the iPhone, HTC are losing ground, LG
: on the up and Motorola are nowhere outside of North America.
: Nokia are making some nice phones now, but they have their eggs
: in the Windows Phone basket and that might not be the smartest
: gamble - it's still not getting much traction, although Windows
: 8 adoption might also drive WinPhone.

: Over here the sensible choice is probably Samsung Galaxy S3 or
: iPhone 5, but it might be different in the US. Find a friend
: with each Jeff and give them a thorough road test - RIM are so
: far behind the curve with BlackBerries now that either will seem
: like a vast improvement. And then you can spend a few months
: working out how you're really going to use it, making your
: second smartphone purchase the really informed one :)