The future is here

I was resisting the temptations of modern Smartphones for quite some time now. My first impression was that all these devices are toys and/or giant data leaks.

Then my wife got herself an iPhone and by playing around with it I learned two things:

1. a smartphone for me will not be an iPhone. Some features like the auto-capitalization in the web brower’s form editor is just annoying when filling out e.g. login fields.
2. this thing is actually useful! We went on a couple of trips and used Skobbler to navigate. My wife even uses Skype on the iPhone now and we can finally chat even when she’s at work.

Then I was out on the road for a couple of trips and I ran into quite a few situations where a smartphone would have been quite handy. So I got interested and browsed around for a model for me. It became clear very quickly that Android is the platform for me: tinker friendly and open. Hey, I might even start to do hack together my first Android app …

Shopping around on eBay I found a Samsung Galaxy i9000 S for a reasonable price. It took very long until it arrived - I suppose that was mostly because once I made the decision to go for a device I just could not wait to get my hands on it.

So it arrived yesterday. And I’m playing around with it now. Stay tuned I’ll be blogging more about my experiences with the device as I go.