So for the five of you that follow me on Twitter, you will know that the other day my iPhone 3GS fell off my bedside table, a total hight of say 2 feet onto the carpet, and decided that it didn’t want to work no more. After about an hour of trying to get my iPhone to turn itself back on or do anything, I came to the conclusion that it was unfortunately dead. A $1000 phone, dead from ONE fall onto carpet. I realised I would need a phone, even if it was only temporary, so I jumped in my car and headed down to the Telstra shop to get a cheap temp phone and ended up getting the LG TU720 Shine for $249. Hoping that if I gave the iPhone a week or so to recover that it may get better and just be all good and stuff.
But now, a day after using the LG Shine, I’ve realised the simplicity in just a normal phone, I know that may come as a shock to some of you, the iPhone is my life, along with my Macbooks. But just using a simple little Slide phone that has half the features of the iPhone is some what relaxing. It was fun to figure out and remember how to use a Non Qwerty Touch Screen Phone, but the simplicity of its features and functions actually have me thinking… If the iPhone doesnt work and for some ungodly reason isnt replaced by warrenty then maybe I could just stick with the LG Shine for now.
Although I feel the iPhone may have spoiled me still. While yes the iPhone 3GS only just got video recording etc. Most standard phones these days have Video recording and 3 or more MegaPixel Cameras meaning that for just fun point and shoot photos all you need is your phone. The iPhone has GPS and a large screen, easy to control once you get past the fact that it isnt a 1234567890#* Phone. It has an abundance of features that you think… why do I need that, but when you loose access to such feature your in pain thinking WHY OH WHY GOD IS MY FEATURES GONE!
I think, if the iPhone maybe changed up its design a bit more and moved away from the plastic single colour backing and added a better quality Digital camera, and hell a Front camera for video calls. There would be no reason for me feeling this semi-attraction to a normal phone once again after having used an iPhone for over 1.5 years maybe the iPhone needs to change its design up to keep people interested. Sure Apple you can bring out a great device, and most of the time the same customers will be buying your product, and when you send out a new and improved version they dont want just Under the Hood improvements, maybe spicing up the aesthetics a bit will bring more people in, and convince more people to upgrade.
One of the major things that I may have come to expect from phones though after the iPhone is a fully featured Internet browser, it will be one thing, along side the GPS and the add-on Applications that will take me back to the iPhone. Because I can’t live with a Bad Mobile Browser version of Twitter and Facebook… Not Anymore, which is why I am glad that after a day of the iPhone resting, I plugged it in and alas it started to charge, who knows maybe it was the 3.1.1 update after all. All I know is that Im gunna use this LG Shine for a few more days, get my fill for usage of the basics and then I will go back to my beloved iPhone. What happens with my LG Shine? Well lets just say my Mum needs a new phone… She doesnt even have a camera on hers.