Stoooopid Motorola Back Flip! Gimme my iPhone

Like Ulysses I heard the sirens call. BackFlip Android based phone (read Linux) and lots of features that sound really neat to a techno-junkie like me. Did I say you might call me a Linux fan-boy?

So my oldest had the BackFlip. Looked kinda neat. So I thought why not – give it a try.

I got a free upgrade from WireFly and they got it here in one day. Un-boxed and started to mess with it. At first I found it novel. Screen is a bit smaller than my iPhone. But the eyecandy is tempting. After playing with the BackFlip for a couple of hours – just trying to figure how to do things on it that I can easily do on my iPhone – I was NOT impressed.

The BackFlip is flaky. It sometimes switches from portrait mode to landscape.  Yeah, I know there is a setting for it.  I messed with it.  Still flaky.  Applications that are basic are confusing. How do I edit this, how do I delete or change that? NOT very intuitive in my opinion.  The “flip-forward” key board is cheap feeling.  I felt different tactile feed back from several keys.  Not good when you are trying to type fast.  End up with lots of backspaces and corrections.

So I learned my lesson. Don’t be tempted by the siren’s song. Stick with your iPhone. BackFlip is just another iPhone wanna be. I really like the Android OS and how it is being used by others. But AT&T did bastardize the OS with their own junk. Oh, and they force the user to use Yahoo instead of Google search. That sucks. Try to search for something in Google and then compare it to a Yahoo search for the same key words. You get a much better result with Google (IMHO)

Have fun!
Keep your iPhone.

Dayna and Olivia

A picture of Dayna and Olivia taken with my iPhone.

Memorial Day Cooking

Memorial Day cooking. Made some Beer-Up-The-Butt Chicken and Ribs.

Lot’s of Stubs and Beer!!

New Car –

Got a new car. The ’06 Prius was getting tired. At 89,000+ miles the value for trade/resale was starting to plummet. So I upgraded to a new Nissan Sentra SER Spec-V. Good price and deal. Two days commuting with it and I really enjoy it. With 200hp and 180ft/Lbs of torque it drives nice. Getting decent mpg too. See the pic.

My New Sentra

Monday 4/13 – Added a pic of the car.

Shall We Tweet?

Thinking about Twitter. Seems to be a simple enough concept. Not as complex as FaceBook or those other social networking things. Besides, I can Tweet directly to the blog from my iPhone.

Will have to look into it.

Have fun!

Greg.