The Battle in my Pants.

No, Get your mind out of the gutter.  My Black Berry Bold II's optical trackpad had been acting up really bad.  I would scroll all the way to the right and my pointer would jump to the top right? It was ok for a bit, I had been hoping maybe a leaked firmware somewhere along the way would fix it but it got super annoying so I ditched it.

In it's place I picked up an iPhone 3GS.  Now it's not that I'm a big "i" fan or anything but I figured I needed to learn more about the mobile OS X platform at some point so it might as well be now.  With the iPhone, iPod Touch and now the iPad always having such a big customer base, I need to be able to help them with more in depth questions.

So now I am carrying an iPhone in one pocket and a CLIQ in the other pocket.  Honestly the two best Smartphone OS's on the market today. I do wan't to say I give credit to RIM for BES and business solutions that work very seamlessly and have the best e-mail I have ever experienced in a mobile phone, but alas your average user, while able to use the system has wasted features and will garner more use from Android or Mobile OS X.

Anyway's I've been playing around using both phones, and I'm rather impressed with the 3GS experience so far. It's not as bad as when I originally had first played around with the iPhone itself.  I've only had the device for a little over 48hrs but have pretty much mastered it. I have yet to find any great reason to jailbreak it so I may just keep it stock.  The improvements over the years to the virtual keyboard are nice, I can type on it much easier than I have been able to on any of the android devices.  I do still prefer a physical keyboard over any virtual board for writing anything extended, but this has been a pleasant experience.

My true hope at this point is that Apple and Android will be the top two competitors to a point where they push each other to create better features, options and of course apps.  When this occurs we will probably see the best that is available in mobile computing.  It's almost there now, but with the grip iPhone now has on the smartphone market it's not quite a direct competition but Android is stepping up it's game, so only time will tell.