Really Fucked Computer

First – based on feedback from friends who are offended by the URL of this blog I promise to obscure fuck in throughout this post.  I cannot commit to cleansing future posts.

To Pre or not to Pre – do I lock myself into two more years of Sprint uncertainty or do I hold off until 2010 when Verizon gets into the Palm Pre act? I’ve already decided the iPhone isn’t for me – great device but no physical keyboard.  For the aggressive email type a real keyboard is it.  I’ve tried the iPhone – can’t type fast enough.  Need the tactile feedback.

I’ve been a BlackBerry user in the past – best hardware on the market, great keyboard, great battery life – but RIM (Research in Motion – the company behind BlackBerry) really blew it with their touchscreen device (the BlackBerry Storm).  A surprisingly fucked device from the company that owns mobile email.  BlackBerry also falls short for web browsing, in part because of the non-touchscreen bias on most of their devices.

If the Treo actually worked reliably I’d be a happy Treo camper for months to come – but the reality of Treo is it needs a hard smack on the head at least weekly and a more dramatic hard reset / full re-synch monthly.

So that leaves the Palm Pre – I parked myself in a Sprint store (not surprisingly – an empty Sprint store) to give the Pre a workout.  Like the size – like the “cards” multi-tasking UI – like the browser.  Disappointed with the keyboard (a notch to small, a notch to Palm Centro) but not a deal breaker.  Have read about battery issues but it appears those issues are centered on specific battery hogging applications.  Will the Pre crash weekly or will the Pre (more importantly the Pre’s WebOS) be reliable?

For now I’m on a waiting list for a Pre and may or may not pull the trigger when my number comes up.

So what keeps me with Sprint? Good coverage where I live / on my commute and (most importantly) the cheapest data rates of any of the cellphone providers right now.

Or perhaps I like Sprint because they’re fucked…