New phone - choices

[lasher]

Right

On the 19th of this month im due an upgrade

currently have a Iphone 3gs

Choices will probably be

Iphone 4

Nokia N8

HTC HD7

Samsung Galaxy S

possibly the sony erricson yendo - states coming soon on website

Could any of you furnish me with advice if you have used any of these please.

 

[heartspains88]

Simple, none of those.

Get the HTC HD2, it's the most versatile phone on the market, can run windows mobile 6.5, android (froyo) 2.2.. and whatever the new one(s) are, and WILL also have a ROM in the near future to run windows mobile 7, they're already cracking it for it. They're even talking about iOS in the works for it, so... it's ALL of those other phones you mentioned.

So in other words, don't drop 500$ or whatever, when you can get one much cheaper. The HD2 basically is the HD7.

But if you're not down to go that route, and not much into phone modding, then the HTC HD7 would be my choice ;P .. Will be equally versatile once the modders get their hands on it.

And if all of THOSE arent reasons enough, you can use this sexiness too http://spb.com/products/mobileshell/

 

[equk]

Whataver you get, don't get a windows mobile phone

I had one as a company phone and had so much trouble with it

I personally love android but if u like to have a keypad+push email maybe blackberry.

On android I have my domain emails going to gmail so I get push email from my domain without paying anything extra

Just loads of cool stuff on android and most of it costs nothing

 

[lasher]

Nice one, will look into that

Thanks for the response matey looks interesting.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Desire HD ftw.

The HD7 is win7 mobile pooo and the N8 is the aging symbian OS.

Android ftw

 

[killablade]

+1 on the Desire HD. Best phone evahhhh ^^

Windows Phone 7 is pretty decent though, just not that customizable as 6.5 was.

 

[zak4994]

I think Windows Phone 7 is brilliant. Microsoft are definitely going in the right direction with it and I would easily recommend it to anyone who has used an iPhone. The marketplace is still in its infancy so I wouldn't expect much from it yet.

So a Samsung Omnia 7 or a Desire.

 

[Hay11Mac]

Iphone 4 LOL I have one and LOVE IT!!!!

 

[hmmblah]

/hugs his iPhone 4.

 

[Youngie1337]

HTC - coding = win.

 

[mrapoc]

I'm lookin at getting a new contract too

Personally I'm after the HTC desire as its affordable (£20 a month) and still up there with the new smartphones

iPhone seems way too expensive

 

[heartspains88]

All of these people are bashing the new windows mobile phone, or ANY phone based on it's OS for that matter is silly.. when you can use that phone to dual boot any OS currently out lol.

The REAL point is, look at hardware specs, and what YOU want. because phone OS's, unlike what EVERYONE else is saying, DO NOT matter, you can install whatever OS you want on your phone haha.. maybe not right away, but it always happens, and currently the HTC HD2 can triple boot 3 different OS's. (more on the way)

I've been modding and playing with phones for awhile, OS is not relevant, look for stats, and what features you want etc. Look for what's going to make YOU happy in the actual phone itself, OS can be changed, the phone itself cannot.. well it can, but you get my point haha..

 

[equk]

All of these people are bashing the new windows mobile phone, or ANY phone based on it's OS for that matter is silly.. when you can use that phone to dual boot any OS currently out lol.

I've been modding and playing with phones for awhile, OS is not relevant, look for stats, and what features you want etc.

So the OS has nothing to do with the features or the performance/stability of the phone?

Also some may get on with different UI's better than others, like all the people who have iphones

Look for what's going to make YOU happy in the actual phone itself, OS can be changed, the phone itself cannot.. well it can, but you get my point haha..

The software on the majority of phones is locked (ie - you buy a winmo phone, it runs winmo)

It sounds like you are talking about the HD2, which does look quite nice but there is so much choice out there.

No one has dis-credited the HD2.

 

[lasher]

Our lasses phone is up for renewal too, might get her a Wildfire as she likes that phone for "looks" and size.

Seen Toms HTC desire and quite like the look of that.

Seen the Samsung galaxy at I40 and tbh not really impressed.

Will pay a visit to Carphone warehouse and get some hands on action with a few

 

[equk]

Our lasses phone is up for renewal too, might get her a Wildfire as she likes that phone for "looks" and size.

My dad got a wildfire and doesn't like it

The screen res is really low and don't think he can get on with htc sense as he keeps calling people with the phone in his pocket without knowing.

I think the htc legend looks nicer, also htc legend is 1 piece aluminium

The one thing my dad says he misses is having call and end buttons (I have call and end buttons on my android phone - samsung i5700)

 

[heartspains88]

The hardware does have to do with the stability of the phone of course, but that means a phone with a 1ghz processor that runs windows mobile, and a phone with a 1ghz processor that runs android.. but if you say that you like the look of the windows mobile phone more, but "wish" it ran android, well it can. That's all I'm really trying to say.

They might be "locked" but that's not hard to change, and plenty of tutorials out there.

I personally generally stick to either android or windows mobile myself, i'm admittedly biased against iOS though.

 

[AMDFTW]

i have PM'd u heart

and

samsung galaxy s for pure hardware speed and top end hardware

HTC desire for better ish usabilty and that sense thing

 

[heartspains88]

Np man! Sent you a reply, let me know how that walkthrough works for you, it seemed solid. If it's not what you're looking for let me know and i'll make sure you get sorted.

 

[siravarice]

Ok so between me and my fiends we have most of the phones there and ive used them all. I can easily say that without a shadow of a doubt the iPhone 4 wins hands down for just about everything apart from price. It's fastest, looks nicest, is the easiest to use, the screen is AMAZING, the apps are brilliant, it records in HD etc, the list goes on. The most important thing here are the apps, they just make it such a great piece of technology I wonder why other people bother. And no, I don't have one.

Don't get the HD2, its the biggest piece of crap phone you could get, TRUST ME.

Samsung is very nice, screen is excellent and the android market it growing with apps all the time. But you if dont like lots of things going on at the same time, dont get it because the iPhone OS is much simpler and forgiving.

Nokia phone always break for some reason, ive had problems and so have friends, and the OS on them just isnt as fast or well layed out.

Really i would say you have two options.

1. Get the iPhone 4, you wont regret it, also, o2 do a great offer so if they bring out a new one you can trade in your old one, or buy out your contract on the cheap.

2. If you cant afford the iPhone 4, get the HTC Desire, it's not as good but it's far cheaper.

Oh yeah, and the iPhone 4 has much larger memory than all the other phones, which will require you to spend money on an SD card of some sort, which won't be that big either.

Hope that helps!

 

[Dewinte]

For me, I like Android and have no experience with Win phone 7. I currently own an iPhone 4 and the lack of flash is just irritating, while yes there is Skyfire (a browser that lets you watch flash videos that they transcode, and is currently being released in batches due to server overload as everyone with an iPhone wants it), it's not a true flash experience it just let's you watch some flash videos if it recognises them. It's very annoying when browsing the net.

Apart from that I must say that the iPhone 4 is great overall, wonderful screen and a nice design etc nothing you haven't heard before and/or experienced with your own iPhone. I upgraded from my 3G to the 4 and well I was quite underwhelmed lol but I knew I would be

. Phone is faster, screen is great and with a camera app like ProHDR you can take pretty good photo's also stability with apps like Skype is better as it's better able to cope with it, but that's from 3G to 4 the difference will be less pronounced from 3GS to 4. I have no reception issues, but battery life is markedly poor in comparison to the 3G and 3GS at least for everyone I know with one. That's another thing, if you like to have a good phone that isn't what everyone has then another iPhone isn't for you as it's like a Nokia 3310 now.

Problems, well the UI is boring and I like empty backgrounds at times lol (hence having no icons on my desktop just a rainmeter setup and a nice wallpaper), it sort of ruins an upgrade experience when the OS is so similar in an odd way. I say odd because normally continuity is great but with the iPhone I find it to be almost as if they've lost some innovation, at least there are folders etc now but again you'll have that on your 3GS. If I could dual boot Android properly I would but then again if I could I'm not wanting to risk a contract phone.

Both HTC and Samsung would have my vote, unless you know that you like the iPhone but tbh if you knew it you wouldn't ask about your options

so maybe you're bored of them! Don't get me wrong though it is a wonderful phone

. If you wanted a larger phone/tablet you could get the Samsung Galaxy Tab with an HTC Desire one contract for £350, sell the HTC for £350-400 and stick the contract sim into the Tab and use it for browsing, voice etc when the gingerbread update comes the Tab should be looking really good for those wanting something a bit bigger and don't want a tablet + a phone. That's why I'm not looking at a tablet for now, although selling the iPhone is tempting the Galaxy Tab is rather large to carry! Good luck with your purchasing decision, there's drawbacks to all the phones I'm afraid

but the HTC's are nice and so are some of the Samsungs, also maybe look at the Dell Streak it's surprisingly ok.