Mobile Ministry Magazine: The 81 Day Experiment and the Reasons for the Choice

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The 81 Day Experiment and the Reasons for the Choice

A website that I have been keeping up with since first finding out about it has been The 81 Day Experiment. The first purpose of this site was to use a different smartphone for 9 days (a total of 9 phones) and then make a choice of which one to keep after analyzing the findings. Its not like most of us can go and purchase new phones every nine days, but the blessing in that Pierre was able to do so means that a lot of footwork about day-to-day usability has been tackled in a way that many reviews cannot.
Image: T-Mobile Dash via the 81 Day Experiment
Read more about Pierre's choice of the T-Mobile Dash.

So what really goes into one's reasoning for which phone to choose and why. In a recent article at the Web Worker Daily, Pierre goes into a bit more of the technical and methologies that went into his choice. While many of us do not have the time to create flow charts, we should be at least diligent enough to do the homework that people such as Pierre have done on making a choice for a device that will most likely stick around for a few years in our pockets.

Read the entire analysis.

Being that this is the time of shopping for a lot of folks. What kind of homework have you done on making purchases this year (technology or otherwise)? Or do you shop by gut and pocketbook?