I was born on the 24th of march 1979 in kabul (afghanistan) and shortly afterwards my family fled from the communist regime in afghanistan to germany. That’s why i grew up in munich. After graduating from school, i went on studying computer science at the munich university of applied science.
Currently i’m employed as a product manager (business integration) for one of the biggest european online-marketplaces for automobiles.
My first contact with a real smartphone was by the end of 2001 with the R380e by ericsson, which was one of the first touch screen based smartphones on the market. It was quite innovative back then with its landscape format and epoc os. After using it for some time and having seen the benefits of emails on the go and pim features like great contacts and calendar apps, i realised how much potential a touch screen based mobilephone user interface has. Thats when i originally started searching for the complete smartphone, that could serve as the perfect assistant for any personal organizing task.
During the past years i got hold of many different devices:
- Ericsson R380e (Epoc)
- SonyEricsson P800 (Symbian UIQ 2.0)
- MDA compact aka Imate Jam (Windows Mobile 2003 se)
- M600i (Symbian UIQ 3.0)
- XDA Neo (Windows Mobile 5)
- XDA Orbit 2 (Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1)
And if you take a look at those linked articles you can see that all of them are touch screen based. I never went back to a non-touchscreen device after the R380e.
So i’m keeping up with the very fast living smartphone market since 2001 now, and by having owned devices with different os and a lot of apps for each device, i think that i have gained enough experience that would be interesting to share with the internet community.
Currently i am evaluating all possible options for my next device. Namely: Palm Pre, IPhone, HTC devices and even Blackberry devices. I invested many hours in research on those smartphones, and after a collegue asked me why i didn’t have any web presence about this topic since i have a lot of knowledge about the smartphone market, i decided to finally start a blog where i can actually share my experience and thoughts with the world.
Hopefully i can help some people out there in the search for their perfect smartphone, by presenting essential app reviews (currently primarily for Android and Windows Mobile), news and general thoughts about the big players on the market.
Best regards,
Shahpur Azizpour
