I got a Motorola Q on the first day it was out. I bet many of the folks on here know exactly what that is/was.
I think it was one of the first true smartphones…
Anyway, I had my original unit until just last week when I went straight from the Q (on Verizon) to the iPhone4 (on AT&T).
What a quantum leap, phone wise anyway. The phone is amazing. I just with the greatest of ease took a couple of videos of my cat and evidently I can upload them to youtube with like 1 click. By comparison, just getting the photo app to launch and be ready to take a picture on the Q was like 30 seconds, by which time you got so frustrated it was like “oh, forget it, whatever”.
Uhhh, on the other hand, I had ZERO, count ’em, ZERO bars of signal in my house with the iPhone.
Everywhere else in the world it seems to get 4-5 bars, regardless of how I hold the phone.
The Verizon signal in my house was never great, but was always adequate. So there’s an up-to-date apples-to-apples comparison: I went from say 2-4 bars to 0 bars when switching from Verizon to AT&T.
I bought a “microcell”, which was an epic pita in its own right. This did successfully increase the bars in my house to 2-5, usually about 4. Great! But it cost another $165 just for that thing. It has already taken down my wi-fi network twice in its first 24 hours. Definitely not great.
Another thing I like already about the phone is iBooks. I have the book I’m currently reading on the phone. So when I had to do the stupid 20 minute wait at the Dr’s office (and then wait again in the treatment room) – no problem – I just read my book. You can’t really do that with a simple text/photo phone.
So my review is:
Phone: Fantastic
AT&T: Sucktastic
Death Grip: Overhyped
