About 4 days ago, I did something that many will think was crazy. I sold my iPhone. I have always stated the problems I had with the iPhone, but all in all, I generally liked the phone. I had gotten use to having that app store at my fingertips. The iPhone has also became my full time music / podcast player.  So what brought me to this decision? What phone did I get to replace it?

Well to answer the second question, I bought a Blackberry Bold, which so far Im loving. Now on to what led me to make this decision to sell the iPhone and buy the Blackberry Bold…

As you know, I had a few problems with the iPhone. I dont like the virtual touch screen keyboard, and the lack of MMS (sending and recieving picture messages) annoyed me to no end. I know, if you listen to the latest GDGT podcast (3.19.09) they downplay the lack of MMS as not being important but every time someone tries to send me a picture and I have to explain how they have to send it to my email, or how I have to always find out the email address of the persons cell number to email a picture to thier phone was really annoying. Those 2 things alone led me to constantly want a new phone.

Blackberry_BoldThere is one problem I have had that I never mentioned in any post about the iPhone. That was how slow the phone was whenever I wanted view the web. I had a 2g iPhone with only the EDGE data transer speeds. It has always been a problem but my way around it was to always connect to my network through WIFI when I was at home and pretty much not use the web when I was out and about.

Recently, I have been using my data connection more and the slowness of the network has really been bothering me. Thats when I decided I wanted a phone with 3g. When I started looking, I ruled out the 3g iPhone because of the other problems that I have with the phone (some of which I found will be fixed with the 3.0 iphone update). Thats when I settled on the Blackberry Bold.

So far, the Blackberry Bold is a better phone as far as features and functionality. it does however lack the "coolness" factor that the iPhone has (the Bold is cool but just not as cool as the iPhone). Im pretty happy with it and will probably do a full review after I have had a few weeks with it.