Well, I’ve been looking to upgrade my portability and improve my techological wiredness.

I know people like iphones, people at work have them. It makes them happy. The interface to use media looks great. Apparently some of the apps are useful (or at least are marketed well) because lots of people are buying them. But I thought to myself, what is important to me?

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A keyboard is important.
- I dont appreciate having to type on a touch screen, but I suppose its possible. I don’t blind TXT like some people.
Cost is important.
- To get a iphone contract costs in the area of a thousand per year. For two or three years minimum
Online apps are more important than nononline ones.
- I’ll be browsing the internet, maps, reading rss feeds, going to youtube, facebook, maybe even making notes.
- Multimedia apps, puzzle games, musical instruments don’t have much appeal. I have other devices which do that better.
- I’ve seen the iphone browser, the squeeze zoom is not something i really want to be doing constantly. The resolution is also low.
Phone is important.
- It might be nice to not need my phone, especially since its not charging very well anymore
Battery life is also important.
- When not in use, iphone seems to be ok. But for extended browsing or whatever, I’m not so sure.

Interface is not really important
- Function matters, not really how nice sliding things are. I want to be productive, not happy.
- Handling rotation, slideyanimations,
Music playing is not really important
- My 80gb zune has that just fine and I couldn’t be happier with it (aside from crashing 3 or 4 times)
Being apple is not important
- Infact, I hate their attitude of pushing products people don’t need and getting away with it.
- I also loathe any proprietary apple software. Their ‘best’ app, itunes, drives me crazy.

So, what are pros to use the iphone, that is specific to me?
Widespread, large community.
Its a phone.
Clean design.

What other options do I have?
I can go more internety, like a tablet. Full slide out keyboard style.
—-except I’d really like it to be a phone
Or a flip phone with full keyboard.
—-except they are handicapped in all non keyboard features
I can go more keyboard phone, like a keyboard blackberry with small screen.
—-except a nice screen is fun, webbrowsing works better
I can get an alternative touch phone, htc, samsung, LG have their own kind.
—-except its windows mobile?

Well…. actually I like WinMo. I used to have a pocket pc, and it was fun! I got a fold up keyboard for school and used MSN, SNES emulators, document readers, MS Office. Good memories!

So I went for the HTC Diamond, top reviewed non-iphone at cnet. I watched youtube videos and it looked spiffy. Its also smaller by length and height.