Phone conundrums again

[seventhe]

I am actually pretty sure that my Blackberry is starting to send me signals of impending doom and death. Seeing as it is a tool I use religiously, every day, for what probably adds up to be an embarrassing number of hours every day (just emailing you fuckers), AND that it is a tool I carry around in my pants (can't be good for either of us), I am, pretty legitimately seriously, starting to think about my next phone.

I am not an "everybody needs a smartphone" type but for my own personal uses I am looking at smartphones only, mainly because work Internet use is so frowned upon (I can't even get my own email) (and without email I would pass away).

I am stuck back in the realm of Blackberry vs Other. The new iPhone looks very nice, but a) I don't like the thought of losing my keyboard SECURITY BLANKET and b) I still feel like iPhones are too trendy for my dumb ass. I adore the new Blackberry but still feel like I'm not getting as much for my money when compared to iPhone or Android. And I really am not feeling Androids right now, although I cannot pinpoint why (as I certainly haven't ever used one myself).

So if you're an Android user, or an iPhone user, please tell me things you like or don't like about your phone. And hey, if you like Blackberry, tell me why I shouldn't drop it just yet. MAKE THIS DECISION FOR ME KTHX

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[lassarina]

Things I like about my Moto Droid: Physical keyboard, syncs up lovely with Gmail and GCal by design, autocorrect is the fucking best I've ever encountered.

Things I really don't like about my Droid: I'm currently 3 OS version behind, because the carriers control all updates, and my phone is less than two years old. I have no security updates. I can't *get* them without rooting my phone. This pisses me off like you wouldn't even believe.

Also, the Droid app market is balls; malware apps are everywhere, and if you should need to replace your phone you have to re-buy your apps for EACH DEVICE, and oh by the way there's a significantly larger than zero chance that any given app you install will brick your phone, rendering it unusable, because Google doesn't quality-check anything and due to carriers wanking all over skinning the UI every which way, no two Droid phone models work the same.

(I'm really bitter and frustrated about Android right now, especially after the experience of using iOS recently.)

As a non-phone iOS user, things I hate: omfg fuck your autocorrect, it is balls forever (not having it is worse, but only barely.) I hate the keyboard requiring me to go to a whole different set of keys for any kind of punctuation.

Things I love: apps are vetted and they Will Work, buy an app once and it works on your iPad, your iPod, and your iPhone all from that one purchase (and now that there is iCloud, you can sync data between your apps on all those devices wirelessly/invisibly, so your save game in Ash on your iPad can propagate to your iPhone the next time you play it there.) Apple is really hardcore about backwards compatibility, such that four iPhone versions ago hardware can still update to the newest OS. Upon hearing that some owners of the new 4S were having serious battery drain problems, senior Apple engineers started contacting those people asking them to install diagnostics in order to figure out the problem. Bonus: Music everywhere! (And FF games! Which are now sold in the app store!)

I liked my Droid for the first year or so I had it, but I am finding it progressively more frustrating compared to my iPad (which isn't even 3G.)