Mobile Blues
My response to a friend choosing between the iPhone and the Tour, both of which scare him:
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They both should scare you.
Tour — Verizon is the best, works internationally, keyboard is great for power users, Internet is slow, apps are weak, battery life absolutely blows.
iPhone — Internet is fantastic, app store is unparalleled, design is intuitive, works internationally, touch screen is suboptimal for power users, battery is OK, AT&T sucks.
If you want good reception, keyboard for power email, don’t care about international and use the phone primarily for speaking and typing, get the Verizon Curve (previous model).
If you want the Internet, apps and want to up on the latest and greatest the mobile web has to offer, get the iPhone.
Alternatively, you could get the iPhone + a cheap, small Verizon phone primarily for calls (good reception). Only trade-off there (other than two devices) is the lack of keyboard…and that goes to your primary use case.
Enjoy the confusion!
