Congratulations, it’s Saturday. This of course means that for today’s “Too Long, Didn’t Read” column, we are all sitting shirtless on the couch, with a laptop wondering what the hell is going to happen today in the world of tech that will be worthy of a blog post. So far, aside fro Danny Sullivan being funny, and a great new Zune HD video, the day is lacking. We seem to be in the pre-major-tech-conference-news-lag.
Screw it, I have important things to say with news or without news. If you have been reading TechGeist over the last few days, you will have seen what happened to my old iPhone, and my drama filled transfer from that iPhone to the one that I am using now. Let’s wrap this up for the last time. How bad is it, really, to go to a first generation iPhone, from a 3G? Turns out, not that bad. Not at all, really.
It’s in this case, so the only time I can see that it is a first gen phone, is when I try and put some headphones into the giant headphone jack. Typical Apple, use our headphones or suck it. Anyway. In all seriousness though, is there really a difference? The camera seems to lack, but the 3g camera was so bad indeed that that is no real pain. Surely the browsing is slower, but I tend to use wifi anyways.
But yesterday it came to me at my standard blogging coffee shop, Printers Cafe in Palo Alto: no tethering. The internet tends to bog down there, past 10 am, when the masses descend and plunk their laptops down to snicker at whatever Californians do, the internet hits a swamp. No problem I said, I can just tether from my iPhone. Hold the phone, no you cannot. Tethering does not work on old iPhone’s.
Aw, shit.
Happily, I just suffered through the connection problems. But in a seriousness, if you use your iPhone for email, Twitter, and texting, you will not feel any undue pain at the switch. It is a shockingly similar experience. And I am most happy at this discovery, I am going to use this iPhone until next July when I pick up the forthcoming new iPhone. Until then I am in good hands.
And here it is: why the hell did the world explode when the 3G came out? It is not far enough in the past that I can hardly recall what hype Steve Jobs sold us. Having gone backwards I can hardly tell the difference, and I feel a bit duped. All things considered, I still have the best phone ever made. Not that I am bitter, but perhaps the next time Apple puts a device in a shiny new package I will not fall for fancy repackaging.
Anyway, I am off to get some tech companies to announce something, then to drink champagne to celebrate the unbanning of TechGeist by Digg. See you soon.
