It looks like I was so gadget freak... well, actually not that so. Upgraded my old iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4S is just natural (I skipped iPhone 4), Galaxy Tab that I am using still the 1st generation of Galaxy Tab, and BlackBerry Bold 9700 considered quite old already since there are already newer model which has touchscreen capability. Those gadgets has different purpose which I will explain next, together with my experiences using them. Please take note that those experience and opinion might be specific to the hardware that I owned, it might be different to other users experience. I just want to share.
My main line is iPhone 4S which is used to make calls and sending SMS. iOS interface is the best in term of ease of use, memory management, and system backup (iCloud). I almost having no problem using iPhone 4S, the 'forced' reboot is very very seldom. Its memory management is the best, probably because it still not a pure multitasking Operating System. The apps is running one at one time, even you have opened several apps, the ones not in focus is in suspend mode until you use it again. Yes, you can jailbreak your iOS to have this multitasking capability, but I would prefer not to do that.
iPhone 4S camera (8 megapixel) is considered very good for a smartphone. The quality of photos are generally satisfactory. So, I use my iPhone 4S to shoot photos, process them, and upload them to Instagram (ID: @k_sty). Just using this iPhone 4S, you can become a quite serious amateur photographer! There even new term called "iPhonography" to describe the art of creating photo using iPhone. There are many apps for photo editing available in Apple App Store, so basically you have all necessary tools inside your iPhone. In future posting, I will write about this photo-related topic.
Apple's iCloud works perfectly in keeping the backup of your system. It makes it easier to restore the your existing iPhone content when you have new iPhone, you won't loose your data if you activate this iCloud backup faeture.
iPhone 4S battery is considered poor, with my usage pattern, it can't last even half day. It last roughly in less than 6 hours, especially when works on 3G network. I might ended up charge it 2-3 times per day.
iPhone sound quality also considered so so, nothing special. Its external speaker not even stereo, such a shame for an expensive gadget! Even in iPhone 5 recently launch, its external speaker still mono! OMG!
The tablet that I am currently using is considered the first generation of Android-based tablet. I mainly use it for reading news, social network, listen to songs, and watch videos. Not like iOS strict apps-rule, Android-based apps more loose, so there are many apps that enable you to download media (song, movie, drama serial, music video) from internet. It's additional SDCard slot makes the storage is not an issue. I am very seldom using its camera because, don't know why - maybe because of too many apps installed, its performance is very lagging, so it really inconvenient taking picture with Galaxy Tab. With its considered limited hardware power, I would prefer not playing games in my Galaxy Tab.
One of the useful feature of Android-based smartphone, is internet tethering. You can share existing internet connection and connect your other gadget to this device. I used this feature when I went overseas, I just bought a local SIM card with daily dataplan, use that in my Galaxy Tab, then tethering it, so my iPhone and BlackBerry can surf internet without changing its SIM Card and no need to pay that expensive data roaming. As for BlackBerry, using my existing BBM subscription, I can use it over the WiFi using this tethering, no need to check whether the place where you were has free WiFi or not!
My Galaxy Tab WiFi have a bit problem also, sometimes when you off it then turn it on again, it won't work and fired up, needs to restart the Tab. And, yes, I need to restart my Tab considered quite often, most of the time because its RAM is almost full and Tab starts lagging, even hang! Its memory management is not good.
As for sound quality, not like iPhone, its external speaker is stereo and the quality of sound is quite good compared to iPhone 4S.
BlackBerry usage is strictly for its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM)! BBM still a powerful tool to communicate with my overseas friends since most of them are using it! One limitation of BlackBerry is its small application storage, my Bold 9700 model, after I upgraded to OS6, has only less than 50MB application storage left, no room for any other apps. At least once a week need to be restarted to clear this app storage because the messages and temp files using this application storage. Then, once it left only less that 10MB, BlackBerry performance starts lagging and "hang" indicated by the hourglass pop up very often, because it tries to clear some unused application storage.
I don't feel an urgency to update my BlackBerry. As long as its BBM works, then it just fine and good enough! :-)
Well, that's what I can share for now after this one year experience using these three gadgets.
I am waiting for iPad Mini... if it really exists, it will change my gadget combination! he he he...
