Larry Bodine Law Marketing Blog

This appears in today's GP Solo eReport:

I hereby attest that it is possible for a lawyer to switch from a Google Android phone to an Apple iPhone without being a computer programmer or electrical engineer. It’s like ripping a six-inch bandage off quickly, but you’ll survive.

I compare it to switching from steak to sushi. Or from rooting for Red Sox to the Yankees. Or changing from a PC to a Mac. It can be done, but there is an emotional component that almost requires counseling and therapy.

I loved my $300 Android Samsung Charge and its big, bright 5.11" tall and 2.66" wide display. The iPhone is smaller at 4.5" tall and 2.31" wide. Either way, I need reading glasses.

When I started my new job, I had to choose between corporate phones. My coworkers universally told me to get the iPhone. There was no Android choice, so I went with the majority view.

The phones are pretty much the same:  

• The iPhone dings a lot. It was ringing away in my pocket when I was at the dentist, who politely tolerated the racket.

• Both have equally slow 1GHz processors.

• The pictures are similarly grainy and blurry, even though the iPhone 4 has a 5 megapixel camera and the Samsung Charge has 8 megapixels.

• They both deliver an overwhelming torrent of text messages and email with frightening efficiency.

• Battery life is equally brief.

• The iPhone offers an alarm that sounds like a duck quacking. The Samsung offers a guitar solo alarm that is riveting. I like the duck because it makes me laugh.

• The iPhone comes with a condom-like rubber housing, which cures the “death grip” dropped-call problem. It’s hard as blazes to get off when you need to read the “IMEI” number.

• Both have lots of apps, and you can waste hours playing Angry Birds on either. Not that I do that on company time.

• Both take forever to find your location when you’re standing in the rain in San Francisco trying to find Union Square.

For the rest of my article, read on in published today in the ABA's GP Solo eReport.