yoyo5280
macrumors 68000
Hey!
So when I move to the states, I will obviously need a new phone and living in Japan has made me a rather spoiled phone user.
In the states, plans are very expensive but luckily my dad gets discounts on plans when bought with a small handful of discounted phones. The two best out of those are the BlackBerry 8900 TMOBILE and the G1 TMOBILE.
But both have some flaws that are really irking me.
The blackberry lacks 3G and a touchscreen, which aren't really necessary for me and it has a decent screen and a 3.5mm headphone jack (yay!). However looking at some screenshots of the OS, it appears that when you get past the menu and the media player, everything else is horrible black text on a white background, with no icons, and lists are separated by a simple black line. BLECH! I'm a mac user, i'm picky about interface. And the design of the blackberry looks OK, just a bit business like.
The G1 is bigger, and a little less business like and has a touch screen and 3G and it runs andriod which looks good and is pretty usable (I have used livedroid on my mac). However the phone lacks a 3.5mm headphone jack and a video player! and I use both a lot! And everything is centered around a google account, which I have but I use mobile me. The phone is also more expensive, and obviously I want to save money.
So which do you recommend for a snobby interface loving mac freak who uses their phone for multimedia and messaging, and camera (quality of BB is not as good as G1, but G1 doesn't have flash)?
-Omi
So when I move to the states, I will obviously need a new phone and living in Japan has made me a rather spoiled phone user.
In the states, plans are very expensive but luckily my dad gets discounts on plans when bought with a small handful of discounted phones. The two best out of those are the BlackBerry 8900 TMOBILE and the G1 TMOBILE.
But both have some flaws that are really irking me.
The blackberry lacks 3G and a touchscreen, which aren't really necessary for me and it has a decent screen and a 3.5mm headphone jack (yay!). However looking at some screenshots of the OS, it appears that when you get past the menu and the media player, everything else is horrible black text on a white background, with no icons, and lists are separated by a simple black line. BLECH! I'm a mac user, i'm picky about interface. And the design of the blackberry looks OK, just a bit business like.
The G1 is bigger, and a little less business like and has a touch screen and 3G and it runs andriod which looks good and is pretty usable (I have used livedroid on my mac). However the phone lacks a 3.5mm headphone jack and a video player! and I use both a lot! And everything is centered around a google account, which I have but I use mobile me. The phone is also more expensive, and obviously I want to save money.
So which do you recommend for a snobby interface loving mac freak who uses their phone for multimedia and messaging, and camera (quality of BB is not as good as G1, but G1 doesn't have flash)?
-Omi
