Might go ( hsst sppt) contract! So recommendations please. Blackberry, i phone or the all new googler mobile? For my needs i'll want email, web browsing, music,texing and good old fashioned phoning people to talk. I want a simple phone that does all the simple IT stuff i need as simply as possible.
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Lorns
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I was actually being serious. I need a simpletons smart phone. Nothing too techy.
Nick will beat you with a stick Pete. He's not that old. * Oh!
Nick will beat you with a stick Pete. He's not that old. * Oh!
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I have a Nokia 6300. Good WAP/EDGE net access, access to my Hotmail (plus if you get contract there's an in-built e-mail program) - plus a MP3 player, radio, Bluetooth, access to things like Google Maps and YouTube (on contract), an organiser and calendar, full video and photo through a 2 megapixel camera, and a MINI-SD slot for expandable storage. And a nice big screen. And if you plug it into your computer it'll act like a modem too.Lorns wrote:I was actually being serious. I need a simpletons smart phone. Nothing too techy.
Nick will beat you with a stick Pete. He's not that old. * Oh!
Only thing it can't do is access Metropol.
I've had a Nokia N95 since March. Brilliant phone. 5 megapixel camera which takes brilliant pictures, nice big, bright, high contrast screen (which can also operate in a landscape mode - great for looking at and taking pictures).
It has the best built in web browser I've ever seen (although I still find Opera Mini slightly faster), excellent media functions (I particularly like the way the headphones use a standard 3.5mm jack so you can ditch the supplied ones and add a nice set of Sennheisers if you wish), excellent PIM functions, an alarm clock so good I no longer use a real one...oh and it also has built in GPS, and wifi so you can avoid data charges if you're within a hotspot.
Nokia bundle Realplayer, Adobe Reader LE and QuickOffice Reader, so you can open Word/Excel/Powerpoint and PDF files on the go (and the media player will open JPEG, GIF, BMP, AVI, MP3 and WMA files). I've added the Gmail and Youtube apps to my phone and they both work very well. Texting is standard T9 predictive text and much the same as any other phone.
Oh and on top of all of that, it has a multitasking operating system, so you can write a text whilst browsing the internet whilst listening to an MP3.
Should you be boring enough to actually use a phone for making phone calls the quality is very crisp and clear, and the speaker phone is pretty
ATM both the original silver and the newer black variant are on the market. The black version has a slightly bigger screen (but the same resolution so you can't actually fit any more on it), better battery life, more system RAM (128MB rather than 64MB) so you can run more stuff at once and more built in storage (8GB rather than 128MB).
However, the original silver version has a sliding lens cover to protect the camera lens and a microSD card slot to expand on the builit in storage (or simply provide an easy way to get things on and off of the camera) - both missing on the newer black version.
It has the best built in web browser I've ever seen (although I still find Opera Mini slightly faster), excellent media functions (I particularly like the way the headphones use a standard 3.5mm jack so you can ditch the supplied ones and add a nice set of Sennheisers if you wish), excellent PIM functions, an alarm clock so good I no longer use a real one...oh and it also has built in GPS, and wifi so you can avoid data charges if you're within a hotspot.
Nokia bundle Realplayer, Adobe Reader LE and QuickOffice Reader, so you can open Word/Excel/Powerpoint and PDF files on the go (and the media player will open JPEG, GIF, BMP, AVI, MP3 and WMA files). I've added the Gmail and Youtube apps to my phone and they both work very well. Texting is standard T9 predictive text and much the same as any other phone.
Oh and on top of all of that, it has a multitasking operating system, so you can write a text whilst browsing the internet whilst listening to an MP3.
Should you be boring enough to actually use a phone for making phone calls the quality is very crisp and clear, and the speaker phone is pretty
ATM both the original silver and the newer black variant are on the market. The black version has a slightly bigger screen (but the same resolution so you can't actually fit any more on it), better battery life, more system RAM (128MB rather than 64MB) so you can run more stuff at once and more built in storage (8GB rather than 128MB).
However, the original silver version has a sliding lens cover to protect the camera lens and a microSD card slot to expand on the builit in storage (or simply provide an easy way to get things on and off of the camera) - both missing on the newer black version.
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Ebeneezer Scrooge
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I just got an HTC touch diamond. It's not an iphone beater, but it's one of the better iphone clones. Runs windows mobile 6.1 and uses HTC touchflo 3D interface to pretty things up a bit.
It's probably one of the first phones to benefit from the iphone's introduction to the phone market, having many of the same features (but actually able to send MMS - which is nice!). The slight disadvantage is that behind the touchflo interface, WM6 is still a bit clunky and takes a bit of getting used to.
The camera doesn't have a flash, but even at 3 megapixel, it outshoots my old K800i camera in good to excellent light.
Like the iphone, there is no keypad, but a choice of different input methods, ranging from phone keypad (onscreen) to transcriber (handwriting recognition), but because my handwriting skills are akin to that of a squirrel sized monkey, results for me on that are mixed!
It's nearly as good as the iphone, wm6 means there are loads of apps out there to download for free, and it costs a lot less. I'm well pleased I got it!
It's probably one of the first phones to benefit from the iphone's introduction to the phone market, having many of the same features (but actually able to send MMS - which is nice!). The slight disadvantage is that behind the touchflo interface, WM6 is still a bit clunky and takes a bit of getting used to.
The camera doesn't have a flash, but even at 3 megapixel, it outshoots my old K800i camera in good to excellent light.
Like the iphone, there is no keypad, but a choice of different input methods, ranging from phone keypad (onscreen) to transcriber (handwriting recognition), but because my handwriting skills are akin to that of a squirrel sized monkey, results for me on that are mixed!
It's nearly as good as the iphone, wm6 means there are loads of apps out there to download for free, and it costs a lot less. I'm well pleased I got it!
Snarky
The keyboard admittedly is quite small but I find its OK once you get used to it. It can indeed slow up at times (but that was largely fixed in the black version by doubling the system RAM) otherwise I don't really see what's wrong wth the software.I have the silver one, I hate it. The keyboard *hurts* me, the controls are awkward and the software is idiosyncratic and clunky. I got it just after an iPod touch and boy does it show.
I don't find it particularly slow, although it could be a bit quicker. My gripes centre around the following...
- No recent history (not that I've found) in the browser. It doesn't even remember the address you put in last.
- Tries to connect to access points you're already connected to when you open the browser or email, instead of just using the one that's open. It then collapses in an error. The general wifi scanning tells you it's connected to the first access point it found when it connects to the one you've just chosen. It then insists on going into the web browser whether you want it or not.
- Amazingly slow GPS locks (to be fair, might be hardware)
- When you're reading a test message, pressing select first brings up the option to CALL rather than reply. Stupid.
There's plenty more - it's not that it doesn't work, it's that it wastes my time.
- No recent history (not that I've found) in the browser. It doesn't even remember the address you put in last.
- Tries to connect to access points you're already connected to when you open the browser or email, instead of just using the one that's open. It then collapses in an error. The general wifi scanning tells you it's connected to the first access point it found when it connects to the one you've just chosen. It then insists on going into the web browser whether you want it or not.
- Amazingly slow GPS locks (to be fair, might be hardware)
- When you're reading a test message, pressing select first brings up the option to CALL rather than reply. Stupid.
There's plenty more - it's not that it doesn't work, it's that it wastes my time.
Knight knight