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I went through the unfortunate experience of having my cellphone stolen from my desk on Friday. Which is rather ironic seeing as how I work in a cellphone shop.

But anyway, thankfully the phone was insured, but I now have the luckless task of choosing a new phone. The choice was going to be easy, a Nokia 5800 to replace my Nokia 5800. It was a treasured companion, that sure had its niggles, but its amazing audio playback always ready to entertain and that wonderful 16:9 aspect ratio to show off all those fancy new trailers.

The choice was simple.

Until I started using the Motorola Milestone that we have in the shop as an interim solution. And I was introduced to the world of Android. Now the Milestone is out of my price and I don't particularly feel like paying out R1200+ on a replacement phone. But there is the Samsung i5700 Spica.

I can get it for free. I have heard good things and bad things much like the 5800.

But dear fellow cellphone users I ask you, which would you recommend.
 
Firstly, sorry to hear of your misfortune.

I can tell you that moving to Android will be pure joy. I will say it with no reservation that S60 touch or as I always say what Nokia calls SF is pure crap!!

Android was built from the ground up as a touch UI unlike S60 that was ported from non-touch to touch. Then there are the apps, sure Symbian has a lot of apps but in due time Android will surpass Symbian in this regard. The user experience you get from Android, at this moment, is almost Iphone like. I believe when Froyo arrives it will be difficult to choose between the OSX and Android.

I just don't see Symbian catching up in user experience. They would've had they made UIQ their core touch UI and added some elements of S60.

Try the Spica, it's not that bad. I'm just wondering if it will get an upgrade to 2.1 or even 2.2.

Good luck!!
 
X3... its crap but its the upgrade of your handset... oh and another crap phone would be the N97 Mini. So those should be free on your insurance...

But seriously, if you work in a cellphone shop you really dont know what phone to take? Your poor customers :p
 
You work in a cellphone shop and you are asking us for advice? You should tell us what is the latest and greatest. ;)
 
LOL yeah, you should be telling us what to get.
But nevertheless, Android would be a very very good decision
 
For you, and your pretty poor customers, the nokia 5800 is a great phone. You can safely ignore all bad reviews. :-p ;-)
 
In my defence... I know all the stats of the phones by heart at this stage (Sadly). But most of the time I only work with dummy phones. So whilst I know how they look and feel
I very seldom get to actually play with a live unit.

What I just want to know is if the Spica is actually good enough for me take over the Nokia 5800 which was my previous phone and was awesome. The thing was near on indestructible.
I am just worried that the quality of the Spica's build is typical Samsung in that it falls apart as soon as someone looks at it slightly wrong. As this stage the Spica is only under consideration
because of Android.
 
Have you considered a Hero? I'm not sure exactly where it compares to the Spica in terms of price, but the prices on it should be dropping now that the Desire and Legend are out. Looking at the specs, the only place the Spica has the edge is in the processor. The Spica runs android 1.5 by the looks of it, whereas the Hero runs 1.6 with the Sense overlay, which is very nice. The Hero has also been confirmed to be getting an update to 2.1, although it's anyone's guess as to when that will actually hit our shores.

The main concern I would have is the OS - Android 2.1 is a fair bit more polished than 1.5, so your experience on the Spica may not be as awesome as what you're having with the milestone.
 
Well the Spica can be updated to 2.1 by updating the phone software and soon 2.2 will be avaliable by the sounds of it.
 
Seems to have a decent enough processor and it's a capacitive screen, so yeah - it's decent.
And if it can be upgraded to 2.1 or above, it's a good bet.
 
I'd say save the cash and go with the 5800 again, update to v5.0 firmware and do a hard reset.
This thing is such good value for money, I'm super happy with it.
W995 was stolen a few weeks ago.
 
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