Well it turns out I couldn’t live without certain features :) For the first time in nearly 5 years, I’m going around without a smart phone … kinda nice in a way to have just a simple, cheap phone that I can throw around but I’m sure I’ll be missing instant access to all my stuff.

So what was the deal killer - for primarily 2 things but I’d say 3 in total with MMS being the last straw.

The incredibly poor battery life, even with 3G, Wifi, LBS all turned off and only checking email every hour I could barely make a day and with very limited usage which is just nuts. I don’t care what anybody says, the iphone is a brick because of its crappy battery life. My earlier (and much loved) Blackberry Curve would go days with pretty heavy usage and a week with limited usage no problem. Also, why should I have to turn all my services off …

The phone is too fragile! issue number 1 for me, I don’t throw them around but I want something I feel comfortable with and it just doesn’t do that. I couldn’t find a case to help much either. I was dead scared to drop or damage such an expensive item :)

No MMS was something I hated, it is just pathetic it isn’t supported and the big release in September doesn’t promise any fixes for that or copy and paste so screw it.

I’ll have the blackberry bold the second it arrives for AT&T.