By: Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:08:16 +0000

Dan, thanks for the feedback. I agree with everything you said, especially the opportunity to actually play with handsets before you buy. Can’t figure out why it took the industry so long to implement this in any number of store. If you were in the market for a car, you’d definately take it for a test drive. If you were after a new TV, you would go to the store and sit in front of it – make sure it was everything you hoped it would be – clarity, sound, etc.
So why not the mobile phone? Oh well, we are there now, so my recommendation is to make the most of it and test drive in store.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:23:47 +0000

Good points Michael, but the one that used to drive me up the wall the most as an avid early adopter, was buying a phone before being able to try it out. The countless handsets I abhor are far and many because I got suckered in by shiny things or the promise of super powers that were really only marketing gimmicks, but no more.
These days are gone for two reasons. First reason – iPhone. I don’t need any other handset in the known galaxy apart from it as it does everything I expect it to and more. Second reason – T[life], if I didn’t want an iPhone at least you can now go into a shop and actually play with any handset available before you buy it and see what it is like. My list includes: What is it like to Text with? Does it have T9 dictionary (commonly called predictive text)? How quickly does it fire up? What is the navigation experience like, especially the really common things that you will do like search for a contact and go from text to call and vice versa. I spose you should also be aware these days of what operating system it runs on and if it will be compatible with your computer for syncing stuff… food for thoughts anyhow.

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