After having a play with my Mum’s iTouch… (iPhone minus the phone) I have come to the conclusion that, from a business perspective, the iPhone just won’t cut the mustard. The keyboard, no matter how much you look at it does not stand up to the blackberries for raw text input.

More importantly, even though I have ranted on this to my friends and colleagues in the past, Research in Motions BES platform, cumbersome and frustrating to implement as it is, is very secure and “Just Works” (Once it’s going of course).

Anyway, why would a company stuff itself by using Java to build one of the most important wireless platforms on the planet? I understand it makes cross platform implementation much easier, but in the end it’s the customer who has to foot the bill for all the extra server resources they have to add to keep executives happily tapping away on their Blackberries…

There I go again!! Another rant…

But seriously, BES is a resource HOG and RIM needs to seriously revisit their roadmap to stay relevant against the likes of Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 and exchange…

OK I better stop now, this is just going to get out of hand.

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She loves it.

Mum’s a bit of a digicam geek so I uploaded all 8,500 photos to the touch for her to show off to her friends.

It only left 1Gb of space on the device for songs, but we will take a few of the albums off to free up some space. The optimisation of the images took 2.5 hours on her 1.6 Ghz dual core Toshiba laptop.

I also added Michael Bublé and “here I am” by Nataclie Goucci and she added Darlene Zchech’s latest album to her iPod on the device using wifi!!

Fun.

Now I *really* want one! Such a slick interface, Safari is awesome, I’ve never seen web pages look so good on the small screen, it just needs a mail application and she would be very happy.

How does this site differ from my other blogs?

1. Freedomgeneration.com - Ministry blog
2. Techpastor.com - tech in ministry blog
3. Matthewsweet.net - personal weblog

So there you have it, I now have three blogs, and I think thats enough for now!

Stay tuned for more random thoughts on life etc!