{"id":203,"date":"2008-07-22T18:18:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T22:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-07-22T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T22:18:15","slug":"i-cant-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/22\/i-cant-decide\/","title":{"rendered":"I can't decide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally when I approach a technology purchase, I am able to look at the available options, weigh the benefits of each product, and make a decision that will serve my needs for an acceptable amount of time.\u00a0 Now that my family's Sprint contract has expired, however, I am having difficulty deciding on the best option for a new phone.\u00a0 Looking back at my past purchases, the Canon EOS 20D<\/a> was an excellent buy that is still serving my photography needs today.\u00a0 I have not had any regrets about my Mac Pro<\/a> and MacBook Air<\/a>.\u00a0 The problem with the current phone market is that no device really fits all my needs.\u00a0 The iPhone 3G<\/a> comes mighty close.\u00a0 The thing I am scared of, though, is that Google's Android<\/a> platform may come closer…and be more \"open,\" to boot.\u00a0 So far I have been looking at Apple's latest iPhone and the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner<\/a>.\u00a0 One is slick and capable, and the other is extremely open with lots of future potential.\u00a0 Phones running Android will be both!\u00a0 Now if I didn't have the sticky problem of that whole 2 year contract thing, I would go for the iPhone today.<\/p>\n

In the end, I'm predicting that Android will see some slight delays and worries over a rocky first release, I'll break down and buy an iPhone (and succumb to a 2yr AT&T contract for my family), the Android will still be 6 or so months away from its release, it will take over a year to get the platform capable enough to make me drool, and by that time our AT&T contract will be nearing expiration again, and Apple, Google, AND PALM will have fascinating options to choose from for the next great phone down the line.\u00a0 Whew, that was a long sentence.\u00a0 By the way, notice I did mention Palm there…I still haven't given up hope that Palm will be competitive again with a Linux-based OS<\/a> one of these days.\u00a0 They'll probably stay in the arena of less expensive phones, though, since they have had such great luck with the Centro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally when I approach a technology purchase, I am able to look at the available options, weigh the benefits of each product, and make a decision that will serve my needs for an acceptable amount of time. Now that my family's Sprint contract has expired, however, I am having difficulty deciding on the best option for a new phone. Looking back at my past purchases, the Canon EOS 20D<\/a> was an excellent buy that is still serving my photography needs today. I have not had any regrets about my Mac Pro<\/a> and MacBook Air<\/a>. The problem with the current phone market is that no device really fits all my needs. The iPhone 3G<\/a> comes mighty close. The thing I am scared of, though, is that Google's Android<\/a> platform may come closer…and be more \"open,\" to boot. So far I have been looking at Apple's latest iPhone and the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner<\/a>. One is slick and capable, and the other is extremely open with lots of future potential. Phones running Android will be both! Now if I didn't have the sticky problem of that whole 2 year contract thing, I would go for the iPhone today.<\/p>\n

In the end, I'm predicting that Android will see some slight delays and worries over a rocky first release, I'll break down and buy an iPhone (and succumb to a 2yr AT&T contract for my family), the Android will still be 6 or so months away from its release, it will take over a year to get the platform capable enough to make me drool, and by that time our AT&T contract will be nearing expiration again, and Apple, Google, AND PALM will have fascinating options to choose from for the next great phone down the line. Whew, that was a long sentence. By the way, notice I did mention Palm there…I still haven't given up hope that Palm will be competitive again with a Linux-based OS<\/a> one of these days. They'll probably stay in the arena of less expensive phones, though, since they have had such great luck with the Centro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[34,32,5,33],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p84xAX-3h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}