Phone Model: Expresso Brown Sidekick Lx, Unlocked 16Gb 3G IPhone, Samung Blast, Tmobile Sidekick 3, Nokia S60, Samsung Memior, LG Prada, LG Viewty
Service Provider: Tmobile, ATT
Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:34 am
The Instinct is the IPhone Killer point blank. I have an unlock 16GB 3G IPhone and I like the Instinct awhole lot better than it.
SarahScandal Posts: 1
Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:14 pm
I dunno why everyone thinks the iPhone is the best thing. I have one. It's pretty cool. And it gets the job done. In the beginning, I would rather have had keys. But now its not that hard. You said the blackberry is too complicated--the iPhone will be your worst nightmare for about 2 weeks. Unless you deal with alot of technology, as I do, it only took me a week. My dad begged me to get the iPhone and I settled for a BlackJack 2, which sucked. And completely died out after 3 weeks. But the iPhone is super for people who spend alot of time IMing and E-mailing. The texting is setup into an IM type thing. It's really really unconfusing compared to other texting. The downs to an i Phone though, would be the camera isn't too good, you cannot fwd text messages or send multi-media texts. Personally though, I am satisfied with the iPhone.
I swapped out my storm for the Omnia 24hrs after purchasing the storm.
The Omnia and the Instinct are pretty similar, I thought this may help.
now that I have had my omnia for three months and had the ability to really take it out and use it, I can tell you that my choice to swap was not a wize one.
With Windows mobile 6.1 (omnia) there are no real apps available and non being developed as windows 7.0 has been announced and will not be backward compatibile.
The battery life on the Omnia is 8 hrs. Unplug from the charger at 7am with a fiull cahrge message, receive the warning by 2 to plug in and recharge or face possible data loss.by 5pm, the battery is dead - just in time for the ride home!
If you watch a movie, the battery is dead in 4 - 6 hrs!
The unit generates a tremendous amount of heat when used for movies, continuous talking or music . . to the tune of just over 100 degrees at the backplate! This is the second unit I have and the same battery time and heat is present.
There are no apps of use out there and backward compatibility between windows mobile versions is quirky at best.
I have been trying to find a calculator that will work with something as time sheets for three months to no avail - for Blackberry, there are three!
The alignment of the touchpad is fluid and needs to be recalibrated at least once a week or the keyboard is unusable for typing with anything but the sylus.
The OS crashes, locks up or boggs down at least once a day to the point that it needs to be shut off and restarted . just like windows!
Syncornizing with outlook works most of the time but hangs up often causing lost data on either outlook on my PC or in the omnia.
I have been in to my Verizon store three times for email sync problems with the POP servers I use. I have not even tried to link it to my business server with the issues I have had so far, I just foreward all that mail to my personal POP account to keep it simple.
The accellerometer has already failed once and the handset has had to be replaced under warranty - which Verizon did without question.
The only thing that I can say that the Omnia does do better than any other PDA phone is the camera. With 5 mp resolution, the thing takes drop dead gourgous pictures and video.easily 3x better than the i phone or the storm . . . . . I forgot my Sony 5mp camera at home Easter morning and used the omina in it's place . . . not too shabby, we printed the pics up to shutterbug and all enjoyed them . . . better than I would have expected far better than any simple digital camera I have used and far better than I would have dreamed . . . the video was perfect . .better than my older cybershot 707 but not as good as my newer cybershot.
One of my co workers stayed true to his storm and we have been comparing notes . . . . and sharing frustrations.
Since Verizon did the latest update to the Storm, 90% of the issues he had with his phone are now resolved - mine with the Omnia are still brewing.
In closing, I do like the service I have received from Verizon, It is night and day compared to the crap I went through for 11 years of Sprint.
I wouldnt take Sprint service if they gave me the phone and free service for a year . . . a year of dropped calls and rude, unhelpful customer service are just not worth the head aches!
If you really want an Iphone - go buy one, there is no replacement - as no one has the number or depth of apps that Apple has to support their phone.
If you want and Iphone but do not want to deal with ATT, the Storm or the HTC are great options, I would not recommend the Omnia for their lack of apps, lack of battery life and other issues listed above!
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