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I don't want an iPhone?
May. 5th, 2008 02:02 pmSo, yeah, Rogers announced they'll finally be bringing the iPhone to Canadia (huzzah!)
So, when Cynra picked me up from work that night and we were driving home, she asked me if I wanted to get one.
I actually had to think about it for a minute, but I realized, much to our mutual shock, that I didn't.
I mean, I'd been jonesing for one of them for a year now, but I realize that I don't need one. I have a several years old Nokia 3595 that is invulnerable to normal harm (but prone to aging). I've dropped it a million times, and the casing is showing it, but the only degenration that it shows is that it no longer vibrates when I have the ringer off, and the '7' key is not 100% responsive since I discovered text messaging.
I'm not the only one. One of the attendees at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uniquecrash's Cheese party had the same model. It had been washed at least twice.
Issues of resiliancy aside, I don't really need all the features. I'm tempted to get an iPod Touch (which has many of the same features), but the iPhone just doesn't attract me more than the probable costs repel me.
I don't really need wireless web connectivity when I'm out and about, or email, or eight gigs of media storage. These things, while nice, I can live without.
It is a neat gadget, but it's darn expensive, and I'm willing to bet the Rogers plan will live up to its name.
Which, once again, surprises me, because if you'd asked me when it was just a hypothetical if I would get one, I'm pretty sure you'd have gotten an enthusiastic yes.
So, when Cynra picked me up from work that night and we were driving home, she asked me if I wanted to get one.
I actually had to think about it for a minute, but I realized, much to our mutual shock, that I didn't.
I mean, I'd been jonesing for one of them for a year now, but I realize that I don't need one. I have a several years old Nokia 3595 that is invulnerable to normal harm (but prone to aging). I've dropped it a million times, and the casing is showing it, but the only degenration that it shows is that it no longer vibrates when I have the ringer off, and the '7' key is not 100% responsive since I discovered text messaging.
I'm not the only one. One of the attendees at
uniquecrash's Cheese party had the same model. It had been washed at least twice. Issues of resiliancy aside, I don't really need all the features. I'm tempted to get an iPod Touch (which has many of the same features), but the iPhone just doesn't attract me more than the probable costs repel me.
I don't really need wireless web connectivity when I'm out and about, or email, or eight gigs of media storage. These things, while nice, I can live without.
It is a neat gadget, but it's darn expensive, and I'm willing to bet the Rogers plan will live up to its name.
Which, once again, surprises me, because if you'd asked me when it was just a hypothetical if I would get one, I'm pretty sure you'd have gotten an enthusiastic yes.
