Well and Truly Over My iPhone Infatuation
Valerie Booth is a website architect and private pilot; when not working, Valerie writes about the internet, business, flying, travel and blogging.
Chris is my #1 GadJet Guy. Well, he was my #1 GadJet Guy until he started flying a turboprop. Now he’s my #1 Gadget Guy. He flew in last year sporting a new iPhone.
Mesmerized by that huge screen I could manipulate with my fingers, I wanted one. I really wanted one.
Naah Naah Naah
But when the young man in the AT&T store told me I could only receive email from one email address, I backed down. I asked him several times, going so far as to tell him, I’m pretty sure I can get email from more than one account, but he adamantly told me, “Naah Naah Naah” just like the AFLAC goat.
So I picked up a BlackBerry Curve instead.
And each time Gadget Guy came by with his iPhone, I drooled. It was especially insulting and embarrassing, my stupidity and this iPhone infatuation, after learning that I could have put my email accounts on that iPhone. When I told my highly-geeky, too-brainy-for-words friend Wieslaw what the guy at the AT&T Store told me, he just laughed. I had to confess to him just to make myself feel better. I knew I should have stuck to my guns instead of falling victim to the fallacious he-must-know-more-than-me-he-works-here kind of thinking. (I feel a rant coming on regarding the AT&T stores that have not improved at all since the recent return to the fold).
But I Wanted an iPhone.
I found myself going into the AT&T Store, just to look at that iPhone. Again and again. I felt like I was cheating on my sexy red BlackBerry Curve. Afterall, I get much of my email from different accounts on my BlackBerry without complication. But then Gadget Guy would show up. And I’d have to ask about that iPhone. And the infatuation would bloom once more.
The Tragic Hero’s Fatal Flaw
What they don’t teach you in Literature 101 (and what you should have learned in Physics) you can learn right here: What goes up, must come down. Every Tragic Hero has a Fatal Flaw. And the last time Gadget Guy was here, I learned the iPhone’s Fatal Flaw. It wasn’t as if I was looking for something wrong. He just came right out and said it - identified it for what it was: the only thing he didn’t like about the iPhone.
I Couldn’t Believe My Ears.
A dead battery in an iPhone means packing it up and sending it back to Apple for a battery replacement. WHAT?! I was out of love in less than a nano-second, begging my BlackBerry to forgive my dalliance and take me back.
Thankfully, my prayers have been answered.
My BlackBerry still loves me and I still love my BlackBerry. The Boy Genius, not related to Gadget Guy, gave me every reason to stick with my one true love today… and it is a beautiful thing.
The BlackBerry Thunder
Good bye iPhone infatuation, hello to Thunder Love! It’s slick. Look at the size of that…
It’s hot. Something old and something new…
And it’s oh-so-not-available. Yet.
But you can get a peek at it over at The Boy Genius Report here.
Tags: Apple iPhone, BlackBerry Thunder