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			<description><![CDATA[I didn't realize how absurd this smartphone crap was until the day before yesterday. We have a potential client using Blackberries as podcast players. Which was no big deal since I worked on a solution a few years ago at my day job but I needed to get the same version as the client. Hence a new <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6602_7-5020355-1.html">radiation hot spot</a> for my palm.<br><br>Now in the house:<br><br>1 Treo 700 (mine, Verizon)<br>1 xv6700 (Betsy, Verizon)<br>1 iPhone (work, AT&T)<br>1 Blackberry 8703e (work, Sprint)<br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/croncast/1232602528/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1090/1232602528_d00bdda34f.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Smart phone absurdity" border="0"/></a>
<br><br>Two of them are for work, like I marked them above, but it is ridiculous. They all do like one thing better than the others, one carrier's plan is better priced or the network makes all the difference. What do I mean?<br><br>Best sounding as a phone:<br>1. Treo   <br>2. iPhone  <br>3. Blackberry  <br>4. xv6700 (horrible)<br><br>Ease of use as a phone:<br>1. iPhone (my mother-in-law could use it)  <br>2. Treo  <br>3. Blackberry  <br>4. xv6700 (need 3 hands to make a call)<br><br>Ease of use overall:<br>1. iPhone  <br>2. Blackberry  <br>3.  Treo <br>4. xv6700 <br><br>Best OS:<br>1. xv6700 (windows mobile 5.0, too bad everything else about it sucks)  <br>2. iPhone  <br>3. Treo <br>4. Blackberry<br><br>Best media playback:<br>1. iPhone (wonder why?)  <br>2. xv6700  <br>3. Treo <br>4. Blackberry<br><br>Best keypad:<br>1. Blackberry (update: thanks Garrick for pointing out I misspelled it the first time -LOL) <br>2. Treo  <br>3. xv6700 <br>4. iPhone (it's pretty . . . hard to use quickly)<br><br>Best sms device:<br>1. Treo <br>2. Blackberry  <br>3. xv6700 <br>4. iPhone<br><br>Best email device:<br>1.  Blackberry <br>2. Treo (would be third if AT&T edge were faster)<br>3. iPhone (on wifi this is second) <br>4. xv6700<br><br>Best web device (network):<br>1.  Treo (doubles as EV-DO modem, love it) <br>2. xv6700 (doubles as EV-DO modem, never used it)<br>3. iPhone <br>4. Blackberry (locked into a special start page, blah and doubles as EVDO modem but Sprint rates are insane)<br><br>Best web device (wifi):<br>1.  iPhone (experience much like real browsing <br>2. xv6700 (fast but reformats pages)<br>The other two are AWOL with no wifi capability<br><br>Best camera:<br>1.  iPhone <br>2. Treo <br>3. xv6700 <br>Blackberry is without<br><br>Best network:<br>1.  Verizon<br>2. Sprint<br>3. AT&T<br><br>Best overall:<br>1.  iPhone <br>2. Treo <br>3. Blackberry <br>4. xv6700<br><br>Taking all of this into consideration and my experience with all four operating systems and form factors, I have decided that my ultimate phone and carrier combo would look something like this:<br><br>
<img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/myPhone.jpg">
<br><br>An iPhone on Verizon's network, use as EV-DO modem, with an add on keypad and GPS onboard. That would get an 'ooh la la' and an amen.<br><br>Tags: <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/iPhone">iPhone</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/iPhone"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/iPhone.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/xv6700">xv6700</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/xv6700"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/xv6700.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/Treo 700">Treo 700</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Treo 700"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/Treo 700.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/Blackberry 8703e">Blackberry 8703e</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Blackberry 8703e"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/Blackberry 8703e.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/Verizon EVDO">Verizon EVDO</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Verizon EVDO"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/Verizon EVDO.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/Sprint GPS">Sprint GPS</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Sprint GPS"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/Sprint GPS.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[I didn't realize how absurd this smartphone crap was until the day before yesterday. We have a potential client using Blackberries as podcast players. Which was no big deal since I worked on a solution a few years ago at my day job but I needed to get the same version as the client. Hence a new <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6602_7-5020355-1.html">radiation hot spot</a> for my palm.<br><br>Now in the house:<br><br>1 Treo 700 (mine, Verizon)<br>1 xv6700 (Betsy, Verizon)<br>1 iPhone (work, AT&T)<br>1 Blackberry 8703e (work, Sprint)<br><br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/croncast/1232602528/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1090/1232602528_d00bdda34f.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Smart phone absurdity" border="0"/></a>
<br><br>Two of them are for work, like I marked them above, but it is ridiculous. They all do like one thing better than the others, one carrier's plan is better priced or the network makes all the difference. What do I mean?<br><br>Best sounding as a phone:<br>1. Treo   <br>2. iPhone  <br>3. Blackberry  <br>4. xv6700 (horrible)<br><br>Ease of use as a phone:<br>1. iPhone (my mother-in-law could use it)  <br>2. Treo  <br>3. Blackberry  <br>4. xv6700 (need 3 hands to make a call)<br><br>Ease of use overall:<br>1. iPhone  <br>2. Blackberry  <br>3.  Treo <br>4. xv6700 <br><br>Best OS:<br>1. xv6700 (windows mobile 5.0, too bad everything else about it sucks)  <br>2. iPhone  <br>3. Treo <br>4. Blackberry<br><br>Best media playback:<br>1. iPhone (wonder why?)  <br>2. xv6700  <br>3. Treo <br>4. Blackberry<br><br>Best keypad:<br>1. Blackberry (update: thanks Garrick for pointing out I misspelled it the first time -LOL) <br>2. Treo  <br>3. xv6700 <br>4. iPhone (it's pretty . . . hard to use quickly)<br><br>Best sms device:<br>1. Treo <br>2. Blackberry  <br>3. xv6700 <br>4. iPhone<br><br>Best email device:<br>1.  Blackberry <br>2. Treo (would be third if AT&T edge were faster)<br>3. iPhone (on wifi this is second) <br>4. xv6700<br><br>Best web device (network):<br>1.  Treo (doubles as EV-DO modem, love it) <br>2. xv6700 (doubles as EV-DO modem, never used it)<br>3. iPhone <br>4. Blackberry (locked into a special start page, blah and doubles as EVDO modem but Sprint rates are insane)<br><br>Best web device (wifi):<br>1.  iPhone (experience much like real browsing <br>2. xv6700 (fast but reformats pages)<br>The other two are AWOL with no wifi capability<br><br>Best camera:<br>1.  iPhone <br>2. Treo <br>3. xv6700 <br>Blackberry is without<br><br>Best network:<br>1.  Verizon<br>2. Sprint<br>3. AT&T<br><br>Best overall:<br>1.  iPhone <br>2. Treo <br>3. Blackberry <br>4. xv6700<br><br>Taking all of this into consideration and my experience with all four operating systems and form factors, I have decided that my ultimate phone and carrier combo would look something like this:<br><br>
<img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/myPhone.jpg">
<br><br>An iPhone on Verizon's network, use as EV-DO modem, with an add on keypad and GPS onboard. That would get an 'ooh la la' and an amen.<br><br>Tags: <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/iPhone">iPhone</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/iPhone"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/iPhone.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/xv6700">xv6700</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/xv6700"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/xv6700.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/Treo 700">Treo 700</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Treo 700"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/Treo 700.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/Blackberry 8703e">Blackberry 8703e</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Blackberry 8703e"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/Blackberry 8703e.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/Verizon EVDO">Verizon EVDO</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Verizon EVDO"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/Verizon EVDO.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.croncast.com/key/Sprint GPS">Sprint GPS</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Sprint GPS"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/technorati.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.croncast.com/keyrss/Sprint GPS.rss"><img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/c4_rss_tiny.jpg" border="0"></a>]]></content:encoded>

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				<itunes:summary>I didn&#039;t realize how absurd this smartphone crap was until the day before yesterday. We have a potential client using Blackberries as podcast players. Which was no big deal since I worked on a solution a few years ago at my day job but I needed to get the same version as the client. Hence a new radiation hot spot for my palm.Now in the house:1</itunes:summary>
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