here comes a new challenger!

Is there any hope for me? LG and Motorola would have to improve their software dramatically, ericsson would need to make slight design improvements and slight software improvements and nokia need to either use the right software on the nice phones or improve their designs. In short, no - there is no hope.

It turns out that I was wrong. There is hope, and it comes from a mobile phone manufacturer that I had completely forgotten about - Samsung.




I went into the shop on Friday to whinge a little more about the lack of phones that interest me and noticed a slim black samsung on the rack. I asked the guy behind the counter if I could play with a real one. I played with it for about 15 minutes and I found it ok. It was presented well and didn't have some of the major deficiencies that I found with other software. Also style wise the phone is pretty, it's slim, has a nice screen and is quad band.

After getting home I checked out some reviews and they were positive. I went into another store to get a better price and was warned that it's no ericsson or nokia with its battery life which I found frustrating, but not too off putting. So long story short, I decided to buy it and see.

Having played with it for 3 days now I have some opinions. Although I could now go on for hours about all the things I dislike about it, I have to attribute that to my nature. The truth is that deep down I do like it even though there are some things that I need to get used to.