You sure i'll be back? I'm not too convinced. Have no problems so far with the Nexus One. I like blackberry, but its exactly the same as it was when i left, minus a little polishing. Nothing new. If I ever left Android my OS of choice would be BlackBerry, but just because YOU went back to the blackberry doesn't mean that everyone else will. The 9700 had kick ass battery life, but my N1's battery isn't too bad. Worse than the 9700 certainly, but not a deal breaker. Everything else, IMO, is better on the N1 minus messaging, because nothing beats a physical keyboard. But Better Keyboard is pretty good, and the stock keyboard wasn't that bad. I left blackberry because I relied heavily on the mobile internet, and the 9700 left a lot to be desired. Blackberry internet sucks. Even when I had full 3G coverage (Atlanta is pretty much well covered with T-Mobile 3G), the browser(s) would not connect to the internet sometimes. Between Opera, Bolt, and the stock Browser, everything involving the internet was not up to par. Even email wasn't as good as it should have been, given the sometimes weekly outages. Like I said, I'm not here to bash the 9700, its a very solid device. But for media? Internet? Modernness? No. In 2008 when I had my 8320, I thought it was great. Its a shame that everything is essentially the same, minus some spit-shining and polishing. Some may look at that as a good thing, but its not always a good thing to stand pat while the rest of the industry is passing you by. That's what RIM does: stand pat. The whole industry is being transformed, and RIM is oblivious. They've got headphones on. The innovations that Android, Apple, and even Palm have made has left the regulars like Nokia and RIM seriously look at the way they handle things. Hell, after years of forcing users to use crap browsers, RIM is developing a webkit browser with their acquisition of torch. There devices certainly look great on the outside, and perform fairly well on the inside. But all blackberry's look and act the same on the OS side. The only difference I see between my 8320 and 9700 is that the 9700 doesn't leak memory like the curve did. Otherwise the only difference is an updated theme and better hardware. OS 5 feels just like 4.5, the last OS i had on my Curve. They may have added minor details and things on the back end, and a few directly to the end user, but all in all nothing new. Android grows everyday. Its intuitive, customizable, and works pretty well for me. I love the integration with Google services, as I use the Calendar and Contacts along with GMail and it certainly makes setting up the phone easier. In all seriousness, going from the G1 to the 9700, from a usability standpoint, felt like a step back. But at the time my G1 was on the fritz and I knew and trusted Blackberry. Would I do it again? Probably so, but I'd still take an N1 over a Blackberry. Probably won't be going down that road again, as I am sure my OS of choice will be Android for the foreseeable future. I don't consider myself a fanboy of anything, I go with whats best for me, and right now thats Android for my phone needs, OSX for my laptop, and Xbox 360 for my gaming.
