I just can’t get enough of my Blackberry!! As much as I want to get an iPhone, I just don’t see it being useful at all in a business setting. Yeah, it’s a great toy - but that’s why I have the iPod Touch.

It’s nothing against Apple, it’s just I don’t think it’s become the enterprise phone that it needs to be. I’m sure many of you would disagree, but here are _ reasons why I don’t think the iPhone is ready for it’s corporate primetime:

1. Keyboard. The many times that I’ve tried to send e-mails on my iPod Touch, I’ve found myself mispelling more words that I as getting right, due to my fingers on the touch-screen keyboard. Side note: I know that Blackberry is prepping a touchscreen BB, but haven’t had a chance to compare.
2. Applications Everywhere. With the App store at my finger tips at work, I just can’t find the time to get any work done while I could be looking up LOLCat’s or playing Tap Tap Revenge. I need a phone that can be business and business only (minus Twitter. :P)
3. Networks. I’m a very happy T-Mobile customer, and I’m not going to give up the great customer service that I’ve had for over 6 years for an overpriced phone/data plan on at&t just because of some phone. The one thing I love about GSM networks is my lovely SIM card that goes with me wherever I go. If I have a friend that wants to use an old BlackBerry of mine, I’ll just hand it over. On CDMA networks they have to go to store, pay them to transfer their data, etc, etc.
4. Storage. One thing I love about my Blackberry that you’ll just never get on an iPhone is storage. If I’ve got a 2GB memory card in my BlackBerry, when it’s full - I just buy a bigger one, you can’t do that with an iPhone can you?
5. Price. I’m not going to pay any more than I have to for a phone, $200-$245 is about as much as I’ve ever paid for a phone. Also, on top of that I have a great phone plan, and a great unlimited data plan and over time with an iPhone my bills would be almost 2 times as much than they currently are wit h my Blackberry.

Don’t get my wrong people, the iPhone 3G is a great device, but it’s just not for me. I’ll always call myself a BlackBerry man, until Apple or anyone else for that matter, comes out with something better!

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My blog has really become a place for me to rant about what really pisses me off. The latest edition includes eCost.com

We all know that eCost has some really big problems with customer service, as you can see from their ResellerRating.com rating. Having a 1/10 isn’t the best way to get new customers for your site.

Either way, most of the problems have been with people purchasing items and they come and they’re refurbished or whatever. The item that I wanted to order is just a plastic card, you can’t screw that up right?

I purchased the Navigon 2100max from CostCo.com back before I went to the beach in July and I love it - they come out with free map updates every 3 months if you pay for their three year service called Navigon FreshMaps.

I’ve been waiting on somewhere to put them on sale so I could get a great price on it, the other day I found eCost.com had them on “clearance” or something like that for $29.99 + S/H

This is a crazy deal for this little plastic card, and I figured that my order would be canceled and it was. What I also expected was that eCost would figure out they made a mistake and take the item off the website.

Two weeks later, I looked up the item and it STILL shows in-stock and shows that they’ve lowed the price again. Wouldn’t that make you think that there is still some in stock??

After e-mailing them, there un-trained staff got back with me multiple times stating the same sentence out of the “crummy-customer-service” manual:

Thank You for your recent inquiry in regards to your order. We apologized but at this time, we do not have an estimated time of arrival on this order.

If you’ve been reading so far, my orer was canceled - yet they’re trying to say “We’re not sure when it’s going to get there” - these people are horrible. Please eCost, ship me my order OR show that item is now Out of Stock.

Update: I had someone from eCost.com contact me today to help me with my order, she expressed that both the Vice President and her both were very disatified with the result of how the Customer Service reps had responded to my e-mail and that she was going to have the item overnighted to me and I should have it by Wednesday via DHL.  This shows that good customer service comes in all shapes and sizes, and sometimes you just have to beg for good help. Thanks again, eCost.com.

There is nothing I love more than being able to know news, facts and just plain information before everyone else. Hurricane Gustav has shown as a great example of what I’m talking about.

With the click of the mouse, I can give you updates on what the @redcross is doing as far as open shelters, how many people they’ve had register on their website as being “safe”; I can tell you which @homedepot stores are still open and if they’re getting more supply in anytime soon;

More importantly, fact-wise, I was able to tell my friends that Gustav had been downgraded to a Catagory 2 hurricane (@GustavLatest) before any local media outlets even annouced it. Doesn’t that further prove the purpose of Twitter?

I’ve had so many people say “Why would you ever use Twitter? It just like Facebook status? Why not just update your Facebook status?” - I’ve a hard battle to fight but I try my hardest to tell them “It’s so much more than Facebook status, its much like micro-blogging with a 140 character limit” - There are so many companies, news outlets, and people that share great information over Twitter that just wouldn’t be widely available without Twitter.

So, cheers to you Twitter.

Who uses the Pandora Desktop application? I try to use it all the time but it makes my RAM usage go out of control. Pandora Desktop at some times can uses a much RAM as Firefox with 20 windows open.

It almost makes me want to just use Pandora inside of Firefox to only have one process open. Anyone have any sugessions??

If you know me you know that I’m not a big fan of anything artificial, I really like to have natural things as much as possible. A big problem with drinks like Coke Zero, Diet Coke, etc is that they aren’t made with natural sweeteners. Truthfully, not much of anything ‘diet’ is made with natural sweeteners.

A partnership with Coca-Cola and Cargill has resulted in something truely amazing. It’s a new natural sweetener made from stevia leafs and other natural counterparts.

I got a few samples of Truvia the other day and tried it out for myself. I brewed up some tea and put two packets of Truvia in my drink and I truely enjoyed the Truvia better than any other ‘artificial sweetener.

People all over love Splenda but if you really research Splenda and other artifical sweeteners, they contain really bad things for you.

If you get a chance, check out Truvia you can buy it online as well as learn more about it at http://www.truvia.com

My laptop is in need of some help. Long before I started getting all caught up in Web 2.0 stuff I bought this laptop, it’s been great but I think it’s time it put some clothes on. If you’re running a start-up and you want to make my laptop - please e-mail me amyers@gmail.com

I promise a picture of your sticker on my laptop in return. Hope to hear from you guys soon!