Smart phone?

[kallend 2,147]

Finally breaking down and thinking of getting one.

I suspect taste in smart phones is like taste in cars and women (everyone has a different opinion) but which one do you like?

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[mutumbo 0]

i like the iphone.

but that new microsoft phone they had in the skydiving commercial looks cool. mainly beacuse there was skydiving.


just stay away from blackberrys.

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[Rookie120 0]

I think it comes down to how much useless shit do you want your phone to do. I have an EnV touch. It does limited internet which I can book and look at flights which is what need most when I fly all the time. My wife has a Blackberry cause she needs more stuff for work with e-mail and stuff. Plus hers can be used overseas. Most smart phones will not work out of the country so if you travel a lot look into that.

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[nigel99 616]

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Finally breaking down and thinking of getting one.

I suspect taste in smart phones is like taste in cars and women (everyone has a different opinion) but which one do you like?

It depends on what you want to do with it. If you don't like touch screens stay away from the iPhone and then Blackberries seems to be ok (wife has one). I live the Nokia's and have an N97 which is feature rich - but has software hangups and sucks batteries. My daughter has a Samsung ripoff of the iPhone and it seems to work fine.

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[masterrig 1]

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I think it comes down to how much useless shit do you want your phone to do. I have an EnV touch. It does limited internet which I can book and look at flights which is what need most when I fly all the time. My wife has a Blackberry cause she needs more stuff for work with e-mail and stuff. Plus hers can be used overseas. Most smart phones will not work out of the country so if you travel a lot look into that.

Recently, my wife and I were told by our cell-phone co., we had to 'up-grade'. I told the lady that all we wanted or needed was just the bare minnimum phone. Just to make calls and maybe, recieve calls. We maybe, make 3 calls a month on our cell-phones. Well, the big day came and we got our new, up-graded phones. Those danged things will do everything but make toast! Not to mention... complicated! I guess, we just never stayed up with 'modern technology'.

Chuck

[skycamefalling 0]

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Finally breaking down and thinking of getting one.

I suspect taste in smart phones is like taste in cars and women (everyone has a different opinion) but which one do you like?

I had a Blackberry for a couple of years. Though it was decent phone (besides the fact that the battery discharged really fast in a day with barely any use) it just was not for me. I have had the iphone now for over a year and love it. It can do everything that I did with my Blackberry and a hell of a lot more. Plus, I can browse DZ.com from any where without being near a computer.

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[mutumbo 0]

pretty much all smartphones, especially those with touch screens have SHITTY battery life. from what i rember the blackberry web browser SUCKED, the iphone shows most pages just like you would from a computer

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[shropshire 0]

You kids, with your fancy smacy phones

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[SkyDekker 1,465]

John,

It all depends on what you want to use the phone for. If you are mainly interested in email/communication, the blackberries are almost untouchable. Nobody does email as well as Blackberry. plus Blackberry messenger blows any other mobile chat platform out of the water.

If you are more into games, music etc, then you are more into the Iphone/android area.

[Niki1 2]

How smart does a phone have to be? I made phone calls 50 years ago. Was that called a smart wire? That's all I need a phone for now. Not being tied to a single location is convinient. Better than looking for a pay phone. The address book is a handy thing to have but now I don't bother to remember phone numbers.

Now do you want to chech e-mail, or create documents? That's not what a phone does. Computers are getting smaller. That's what you're talking about. See what's on You Tube? Surf the web? Play games online? Sounds like computer stuff.

You can watch movies on a computer. How does "Gone With the Wind" look on a 5.5 inch screen? And the same guy who sells you that "phone" at Best Buy is the same guy who wants to sell you a 55" flat screen TV. And you can hook up your computer to that 55" flat screen. OK. You can't put that 55" sveen in youir pocket and go on your way. But even at home, you can't make a PHONE CALL on the TV.

A phone is not smart. The one pushing the buttons needs to be smart enough to get it to do what the person wants it to do. A thermos bottle is smater than a phone.

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[Ron 10]

Ease of use: iPhone.

More powerful: Droid X

Just Email: iPhone or BB. (Personally, I don't like the BB)

I had a buddy that bought the Droid X... I like it, he found it a little confusing. He loved my iPhone since it was easier to use.

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[cavscout73 0]

I am a big fan of the Droid incredible , had mine for about two months now . Not much it don't do , really worth look at . The only down side I can give it is battery life but I just had to learn to keep apps off I'm not using . I had a Windows phone before this and hated it .. it was cool for the fact that I could handle word docs and stuff like that but that's why I have a laptop ..
My .02 take a good look at the Droid line ..

[BIGUN 1,483]

Morning. Professor.

Here's a comparison chart for your review since your statement about taste in smart phones is spot on.
http://lifehacker.com/5575317/smartphone-comparison-chart-dishes-the-dirt-on-smartphone-specs

You'll notice the tech specs are somewhat similar, but in comparing my iPhone with the droids find that the extra size in screen (20mm) is helpful for viewing.

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[kasch 0]

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I am a big fan of the Droid incredible , had mine for about two months now . Not much it don't do , really worth look at . The only down side I can give it is battery life but I just had to learn to keep apps off I'm not using . I had a Windows phone before this and hated it .. it was cool for the fact that I could handle word docs and stuff like that but that's why I have a laptop ..
My .02 take a good look at the Droid line ..

+1 droid incredible. great phone, my only gripe is I thought it would work overseas....but it doesnt.

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[nigel99 616]

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Morning. Professor.

Here's a comparison chart for your review since your statement about taste in smart phones is spot on.
http://lifehacker.com/5575317/smartphone-comparison-chart-dishes-the-dirt-on-smartphone-specs

You'll notice the tech specs are somewhat similar, but in comparing my iPhone with the droids find that the extra size in screen (20mm) is helpful for viewing.

That chart is funny! It gives you the CPU fab details (65nm or 45nm) something that is pretty meaningless to 99% of the market and completely omits ALL details on the phone side. There is no mention of what frequencies bands (Quad band/Penta band etc) and protocols the phones support. So you know some useless detail about the CMOS fabrication of a single component in the design but not whether your phone will work in Europe

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[BIGUN 1,483]

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There is no mention of what frequencies bands (Quad band/Penta band etc) and protocols the phones support.

There is a disclaimer at the bottom of the graph on "Real Life Performance."

Perhaps you could share a better comparison chart?

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[nigel99 616]

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There is no mention of what frequencies bands (Quad band/Penta band etc) and protocols the phones support.

There is a disclaimer at the bottom of the graph on "Real Life Performance."

Perhaps you could share a better comparison chart?

Honestly I just found it funny that a couple of posts here have referenced the fact that a smart phone is a "phone" and they had no need for the frills. Then the comparison chart which is relatively detailed doesn't even mention the "phone" side of things.

The Wikipedia comparison chart looks pretty detailed btw.

Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

[cocheese 0]

Yesterday at an indoor r/c event, I heard there is a phone and r/c plane that can be flown from the phone including on-board video. You can fly "blind" from your phone!

[NickDG 23]

I've had a Droid X for about 4 months now. No issues with it and it does it all, and once I put the new higher capacity battery in it, it gets decent battery life. Plus it has Flash.

NickD

[mnealtx 0]

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Most smart phones will not work out of the country so if you travel a lot look into that.

The reason why many phones won't work overseas is due to Sprint and others using CDMA instead of GSM.

Get a quad-band phone with GSM and you'll be good to go worldwide.

Mike
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[boinky 0]

I just got an Epic from Sprint. I'm only in a 3G area, but it is capable of 4G speeds. I love this phone!!!

It has a virtual keyboard, but has a feature called "Swype." It also has a pullout keyboard, but I have hardly pulled it out as the swype feature is so cool.

Like everyone else, I'm more into the apps than I am at actually using the phone part. I guess I don't have enough friends/family or something.

You can also enable something called a "hot spot" on this phone. It is an extra charge, but can opt to not enable this feature and not have the fees. The concept is that it will power other wi-fi technology. I've only used my DS on it so far, but it worked fine.

The only down side I've found so far is the battery life, but I've heard that you can buy extra batteries, though.

Nina

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[mutumbo 0]

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I just got an Epic from Sprint. I'm only in a 3G area, but it is capable of 4G speeds. I love this phone!!!

It has a virtual keyboard, but has a feature called "Swype." It also has a pullout keyboard, but I have hardly pulled it out as the swype feature is so cool.

Like everyone else, I'm more into the apps than I am at actually using the phone part. I guess I don't have enough friends/family or something.

You can also enable something called a "hot spot" on this phone. It is an extra charge, but can opt to not enable this feature and not have the fees. The concept is that it will power other wi-fi technology. I've only used my DS on it so far, but it worked fine.

The only down side I've found so far is the battery life, but I've heard that you can buy extra batteries, though.

firstly, what is swype? lol

and secondly, ALL smartphone batteries, suck, especially if they have any kind of touch screen, so i personally wouldnt even take that part of it into consideration.

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[theonlyski 8]

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firstly, what is swype? lol

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[NickDG 23]

My DroidX has Swipe and it's great. The only problem is sometimes I start Swyping on my laptop, LOL!

NickD

[DSE 5]

I bought the DroidX.
Tried various versions of iPhones several times. Aside from the fac that it doesn't work at my Utah home, and barely works at my Lake Elsinore home...I gave up.
Very happy with the X. I also bought the Samsung Fantastic for my daughter, and it too...very nice.

Most iimportantly, they both actually make phone calls, which my iPhones couldn't do.