Contentment

Recently I wrote about my contentment with the iPhone and how I couldn’t quite break away from it and the ‘contentment’ word perfectly describes how I feel. The problem is that once I reach the stage of contentment, the point at which I should be most happy with my phone, I then tend to move to something else.

The balance between contentment and novelty is a difficult one to tread once you have used a lot of smartphones and the desire to try something new is never far away. Be honest, haven’t you looked forward to setting up a new phone in the past? Adding your preferred apps, your shortcuts and discovering new ways of working. That, strangely, becomes quite addictive and is a process that I have been through many times. Fiddling, tweaking and setting things up how I like them.

I am content at the moment and the fact I don’t have enough time to mess about with new things helps, but who knows what will happen in the future. Just maybe I will jump for no other reason than to try something new. And just maybe I will regret doing that.

Comments

[Neil]

I realise I don't miss it - I don't want to tinker with my computers, either. I'm happy using them to achieve a goal, rather than just for the sake of using them... Also, I'm tight, and hate spending money unnecessarily, so no upgrade until/unless it really does something from which I'd benefit.

[Peter M]

I got that way with Palm. It wasn't perfect, but the Treo 650 and 680 were excellent. Despite the battery performance, the 680 was the best phone I'd ever had at that point and I was very quick on it. I tried Windows Mobile phones like the HTC Tytn, but always went back to the Treo.

All I wanted from Palm was a little tinkering to make it work with 3G, wi-fi, etc and a mild visual overhaul to make the icon grid a little more contemporary and I would have been content.

Sadly, they mishandled the evolution of PalmOS, making some of the worst business gaffs I've even seen a tech company make. Even the cute Palm Pre couldn't save that sinking ship.

I switched to iOS, by way of Blackberry. Once again the water's fine and I will simply stick here until Apple makes the same mistakes and dooms the whole enterprise (hint: don't sell your OS and license it back and don't do anything too radical to the user experience).

[vboelema]

I've had my phone for over a year and I'm surprisingly happy with it. This is a first for me. I have it set up the way I like it, it works pretty well. I sometimes change the wallpaper but that's about it. I used to love fiddling, but now I just want it to work.