I bought my iPhone 3G in July of 2008 and it has been a good business tool for me. I use the calendar, contacts, email, maps, Internet browsing, iPod, and a few of the other 250,000 apps available for the phone. After working with the HTC Incredible for two days, I am ready to switch to not only a new device, but a new network altogether.

I have always said about the iPhone that I love the device and hate the network. Now, I’m not even sure I love the device that much. By comparison, (and granted, my iPhone is two years old), the HTC is about 5 times faster loading programs, about 10 times faster loading web pages, it has an 8 megapixel camera and amazingly high quality video.

There are only two things that will hold me back from switching. As previously stated, there are over 250,000 apps for the iPhone. iTunes makes it ridiculously simple to sync contacts, photos, music and data to the device. If the new iPhone comes out in June or July I will have to look at the features and performance of the new phone before making a decision.

The biggest difference between the phones is simply the ability to make a call. AT&T has several “dead zones” just in the Boulder area. Verizon seems to have none. The hills going out of town seem to affect most carriers, but not to the degree that AT&T is affected. I will probably be willing to work with the syncing issue just to have a solid handset that doesn’t drop my call.