What to do..what to do...

Well today, my contract with my carrier is up and now it comes to decide what to do. I have been using both of these phones during my tenure. I gave my wife the Android phone due to my impulse reaction on charging the battery all the time due to the apps and my persistence to check out on a normal basis. These are both Nokia phones and they always the best when it comes to call quality. The one on the left is a E71x that my wife bought from a friend to replace a Blackberry Flip that she had issues. The one on the right is a N97 that we got in the Philippines back in 2010.

The Nokia N97 was good at the time but now since the apps are taking more memory and install on the phone memory rather than the mass memory, I can't use much apps and it is slow due to the apps taking over most of the phone memory. The speaker on the phone loses volume no matter despite being on maximum volume. Despite all of this, I have to keep rebooting and hard reboot just to clean apps up that I decide not to use. I plan to keep on using the phone as a GPS since I do like the Nokia Maps as a GPS.

The question is now, what phone to get next. I have looked around at places and checking out phones what to get. When we bought the Nokia N97 in the Philippines, they had a lot of selection that we didn't get. Anything from Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson are there at your fingertips. I haven't seen any Sony Ericsson phone in the US for years. If we get a iPhone, then we have to think about if we really want to switch to a difference carrier since only AT&T, Verizon and Sprint offer iPhones or stick with T-Mobile and get any Android or Windows Phone that is out there even those 3 carriers sell them too. We will see.

Decisons....decisions...decisions.....

Time to get new phones. Our contract with our carrier is almost up and now we are planning to switch. With all of the new smartphones out and different operating systems, it is getting hard to choose. With so much competition, it makes it very hard to figure out what phone is the best and to the one that represents you. What could that be...

iOS?
Android?
Windows Phone?
Symbian?

I have a Nokia N97 that I bought in the Philippines back in 2010. I was in love with the cellular stores since they have every company that makes them. I got Nokia because it was a maker of my first cellphone that I ever had. They had the reputation of great design and good phones. Over time now, Nokia has an agreement with Microsoft to handle it's Windows Phone OS on Nokia phones, and it has become a 2 horse race with iPhones and mostly Samsung phones.

All through out my feeds on FB and G+ these days, you have people that live and die with Apple and then you have the people that are all about android. Each one is taking jabs over each other and it is deja vu. This case of Apple Vs. Samsung reminds me of the Apple Vs. Microsoft court case. I am neither a fanboy when it comes to this saying on which is the best these days. If we do get a iPhone, I can be happy by saying that I have bought a iPhone. Nothing less, nothing more.

In The Beginning

I was 4 years old when I first saw one at a Rolling Meadows community center.  I was not sure what it was but it was something that really opened my eyes. You can pretty much say it was a beginning a love affair with a computer. Not just any computer, it was an Apple computer. It was that moment that I remember my life would not be the same. Anytime I would go to a computer lab, I would be transfixed at the computers around the lab. At that time, there were no Windows, as I haven’t seen one what windows is at the time.

From Kindergarten through 8^th grade, I always was in front of an Apple computer. I have done my homework at class with it and also played games on a compatible one at home. My next-door neighbor had a Macintosh and I was transfixed on this kind of computer not only using a mouse with a point and click of a mouse. There is nothing like an Apple Computer. It was simple, easy and it was able to get the job done. By 9^th grade, there were no Apple computers around except of an Apple IIgs in in one room and a couple of Macintoshes in one computer lab. I first heard of Windows through this time and it was all WordPerfect, and that was the beginning that I was on a IBM compatible computer. I was able to get my homework done and still learn from it but I knew something was missing.

Despite working on IBM and Windows computer for most of my high school and college years, I always see an Apple computer. Despite all of those years working on Windows,  I would never forget the first time that I laid my eyes on a Apple product. From 2001 through 2005 I was mostly using Windows and it was my first computer I ever bought with my own money. Through that time, I hear about the buzz when it comes to the iMac since my college days. I was getting tired with Windows due to everything about it.  So I decided to get a iMac. It was a big risk since not much people have heard it and a lot of PC users were bashing it. But ever since I got it, it felt something that I was missing all those years when I first saw a computer. It still has that Apple trademark. It was simple and easy to use.

I still have the iMac that I have bough those years ago and I never really had any problems in the 5 years I’ve had it. I never got a virus warning, never got a warning saying that I “performed an illegal operation.” I made videos on it. I collected my photos and I play music and even record them. You can do that with other computers but for me, there is nothing like an Apple computer. When I learned about Steve Jobs passing this evening, it made me think of all those years why we have computers, iPods and iPhones today. Where would be if we didn’t have those products? In 1998 when he came back to the company that he had founded, he told everybody to “Think Different” than what everyone else was thinking. I can understand why some people can’t ever forget about the first time they saw or used an Apple Computer, iPod or a iPhone. Maybe that has why it has gotten to a point when it is the most valuable company in the world today. There will not be another person like Steve Jobs in our lifetime and I am happy that I was able to experience it. You will be missed and thank you for the vision that you shared with us and most importantly, the products that you introduced to us.