MyVerbalOutlet

I watched the demo video at engadget of the new Motorola Droid phone. I must say I was pretty impressed. Droid won’t get me to switch from my iPhone for serveral reasons. I love the multimedia functionality of the iPhone, the apps and games I use, and easy sync/management with my home computer.

However there are several features of the Motorola Droid phone I would love to see on the iPhone.

• A combined inbox view for email accounts
• The new Google Maps for Mobile software
• The doc and car doc accessories and the automatic mode change

If the iPhone had the new Google Maps for Mobile and a car dock I would order that right now.  The home dock for the Motorola Droid is really cool to.

I hope some competition drives Apple to continue to make the iPhone the best mobile device.

I usually check my email on my iPhone when I am getting ready for work in the morning. Thursday as I was using my phone I noticed that I had a 3G signal at my house. I was pretty excited about that. I commute to work in Bloomington, IL. which has had 3G service for a couple of years but I live near Champaign, IL. which didn’t have 3G service. I couldn’t understand why Champaign didn’t have 3G service since its the home of the U of I one of the premier universities for engineering in the country.

Now when I am in Champaign and I want to look something up on my phone I won’t have to wait on the dreadfully slow Edge connection anymore.

Today AT&T changed the order status form on their web site and now I can’t get any information from it.  I called my AT&T store to get them to check on my iPhone 3G order and the sales person said it was still pending.  Then she dropped a new time table on me.  When I ordered my phone I was told 7-15 days and now the time frame has gone to 10-20 business days.  I guess I will check on my phone again next Tuesday as that will be the 10th business day.

I order an iPhone 3G last week at the AT&T store near work.  There was a url on my receipt I was told I could use to check the status of my order.  The web form at the url has three required fields one of them being zip code.  It took me a little while to figure out that I had to put in the AT&T store’s zip code instead of my own which makes no sense to me at all.

So I have been checking on my order at least once a day since I ordered the phone.  This morning when I checked on my order the QTY Back-Ordered column read 0 instead of one.  I thought maybe they had received a shipment of phones and mine was being processed. However when I checked on my order this afternoon the QTY Back-Ordered read 1 again.  AT&T and Apple have really dropped the ball on this one and I am not pleased at all.