Farewall RAZR...

About three years ago I bought me a top of the line, bleeding edge mobile phone - the Motorola RAZR V3.
About three weeks ago I bought me a top of the line, bleeding edge iPhone 3G.
It is amazing to see the distance that the mobile phone industry traveled in three years, courtesy of Apple. However, this is a subject for another post.

This post is dedicated to saying goodbye to my V3.

I've been a big Motorola phone fan since I was the proud owner of Motorola Timeport.

But RAZR V3 blew me away. At the time it was one mean piece of equipment - the first one to carry a USB plug for both charging and syncing, and a great step in the non-proprietary direction in that. The same charger is used to charge my phone and my bluetooth earpiece, and my MP3 player. I can charge my phone from my Laptop. Oh, wow.

And there is one thing that I have to tribute to the UI folks in Motorola. It seems like all they do all day is sit and count how many clicks it would take to get a trivial task done. If it's more than 3, it's back to the sketch-board.
I recently had a setback of 3 days where my iPhone stopped working (upgraded to 3.0, long story...). I went back to my ancient V3, and I have to tell you - I was actually having fun.
Suddenly an operation that would take 10 clicks on the iPhone, and would actually make me think about it while I was doing it, was being done by my fingers automatically in 2 clicks. Something as easy as pulling out my recent calls is done in one click. Dial to one of my contacts? 3 clicks.
Now, granted, that the iPhone, the most amazing piece of common computing equipment ever to be invented by man, carries "a bit" more features than my V3. Still, being the commandline geek that I am, I want to be able to do common tasks in one or maximum two clicks.
Am I not going to be able to do that in the modern world of mobile phones being cool-small-computers?
Time will tell.
Meantime, I just wanted to thank my V3 for a wonderful 3-4 years. I'm going to miss you like you miss an old dog that passed away.

I have a new iPhone puppy ;)