Finally, somebody understands this issue!
sschwar4 has it right. I used an iPhone for about two weeks before giving it to my son and going back to a Sony-Ericsson. The iPhone is a superb internet appliance/pda/handheld computer (although sadly lacking removable memory--like a mini SD card for Pete's sake!). I, as one who has venerated Macs and most things Apple for years, found the iPhone, as a phone, embarrassing. Frankly, it sucks as a phone. It lacks many phone-related features that I was used to on my S-E phones. And, as sschwar4 has noted, it doesn't even perform the most basic function of a phone--communication--very reliably.
All of the above is why I would dearly love to be able to connect a 64GB iPod touch to the internet using my S-E phone as a modem, when WiFi is not available. Better still, would be a device that had the iPod touch's features AND had a slot for removeable memory (so I could load up additional movies, etc. when that 64gb became full of my massive music collection, other movies, etc. etc.) I have learned, in almost 30 years of personal computing, that there is NEVER enough memory. Of course, the holy grail would be a smart phone that worked well as a phone AND had the iPhone's interface and features.
Oddly enough, there is one solution to this situation that, from a financial standpoint, costs little more (on a monthly basis) than iPod touch + S-E phone. In my ATT family plan, I can add another line for $9.99/mo., get an iPhone, pay $30/mo. for the iPhone plan, and drop the $30/mo. data plan for my S-E phone. Then I can use my S-E phone as, well, a phone, while using the iPhone as a pda/internet applicance. BUT, the iPhone only has 32gb of RAM, and still no removeable memory slot. Damn!
sschwar4 has it right. I used an iPhone for about two weeks before giving it to my son and going back to a Sony-Ericsson. The iPhone is a superb internet appliance/pda/handheld computer (although sadly lacking removable memory--like a mini SD card for Pete's sake!). I, as one who has venerated Macs and most things Apple for years, found the iPhone, as a phone, embarrassing. Frankly, it sucks as a phone. It lacks many phone-related features that I was used to on my S-E phones. And, as sschwar4 has noted, it doesn't even perform the most basic function of a phone--communication--very reliably.
All of the above is why I would dearly love to be able to connect a 64GB iPod touch to the internet using my S-E phone as a modem, when WiFi is not available. Better still, would be a device that had the iPod touch's features AND had a slot for removeable memory (so I could load up additional movies, etc. when that 64gb became full of my massive music collection, other movies, etc. etc.) I have learned, in almost 30 years of personal computing, that there is NEVER enough memory. Of course, the holy grail would be a smart phone that worked well as a phone AND had the iPhone's interface and features.
Oddly enough, there is one solution to this situation that, from a financial standpoint, costs little more (on a monthly basis) than iPod touch + S-E phone. In my ATT family plan, I can add another line for $9.99/mo., get an iPhone, pay $30/mo. for the iPhone plan, and drop the $30/mo. data plan for my S-E phone. Then I can use my S-E phone as, well, a phone, while using the iPhone as a pda/internet applicance. BUT, the iPhone only has 32gb of RAM, and still no removeable memory slot. Damn!