The right smartphone choice

I am surprised the Blackberry is not in this article.
 
Shred said:
I am surprised the Blackberry is not in this article.
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I thought I'd see a range of smart phones... I didn't even bother to read the article because the view would be so skew!
 
Just because they are not comparing apples and berries with phones does not mean the article is a bad one. It does have a few good facts in it.
 
Sensorei said:
X2 You can not leave out Blackberry when discussing top smartphones.
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Agreed.
The Palm pre is a great phone. In fact it's my no.1 choice. But it's not available outside the US, heck it's not even GSM, it's a CDMA phone. So why talk about that & not the blackberries. No mention of the iPhone even. Not such a good article.
 
Synaesthesia said:
Agreed.
The Palm pre is a great phone. In fact it's my no.1 choice. But it's not available outside the US, heck it's not even GSM, it's a CDMA phone. So why talk about that & not the blackberries. No mention of the iPhone even. Not such a good article.
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Multitasking is paramount in a smartphone - the iPhone maybe will do that in the future.

Palm is a way better smartphone than blackberries. As with the iPhone a blackberry is more of a symbol that it is a tool. It is like wearing a business suit from Issey Miyake or Gucci and thinking - "Damn, I look like a real business person now".

Android, Palm and Symbian are more serious tools that are not only focused on business alone.
 
e71.......like i said time and time again whips @ss @ bussiness. Reason why the iphone isnt in the article is due to the fact that they are actually comparing bussiness phones...and although the iphone attempts at catering for bussiness its not theyre main focus point. Otherwise one could just aswell have asked why the 5500 isnt in the review.
 
No Omnia, I see.

And I think the Omnia can multi-task with the best of them, especially with the WM 6.5 ROM.

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I have the Sony Ericsson Experia X1, and I am as happy as can be with this phone. Brilliant futures, build in Wifi, can browse networks everything, transfer files with ease, I also managed to install RDP and VNC on it to remote manage my sites. What a pleasure. Connects to exchange server 2007 with no problems... Well done Sony Ericsson on a true good product, oh ja, the picture quality when watching a movie on the phone awesome!!!
 
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Rouxenator said:
Well spotted :D
But Android really is a pretty impressive smartphone OS as well, so it not just about [-]the worlds best phone maker[/-] Nokia :cool:
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The Magic really is magic and right now sits on my personal list of the best 3 smart phones to have. (HTC Magic, iPhone and BB Storm).

I believe Nokia has (unfortunately) gone down a similar route to WM. Never bothered to update an aging OS. And it shows when one compare it to the newer OS's such as Android, iPhone and BB. Also, the built quality on the 5800 is worrisome. Feels like a plastic toy. The 97 feels a bit better though.
 
vodacom3g said:
The Magic really is magic and right now sits on my personal list of the best 3 smart phones to have. (HTC Magic, iPhone and BB Storm).

I believe Nokia has (unfortunately) gone down a similar route to WM. Never bothered to update an aging OS. And it shows when one compare it to the newer OS's such as Android, iPhone and BB. Also, the built quality on the 5800 is worrisome. Feels like a plastic toy. The 97 feels a bit better though.
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thats an opinion....but heres mine, maybe nokia just know they're target market, maybe they know that most people between the ages of 45 and beyond doesn't want to adapt to a new "OS" on their phone (or pc ) every two years, maybe they just want something that looks like what they knew, but with added features as to validate the feeling of an "upgrade"? surely vodacom you must know that the greatest reason nokia has maintained they're market share is due to same reason MS has they're following..cause its what people know.
Sure S60v3/5 is not the glossiest OS, but its still up there with the big boys when it comes down to functionality.
 
vodacom3g said:
I believe Nokia has (unfortunately) gone down a similar route to WM. Never bothered to update an aging OS. And it shows when one compare it to the newer OS's such as Android, iPhone and BB.
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Actually - no - they have improved Symbian in leaps and bounds. If you look at the wide variety of phones out there running on Symbian (not just Nokia phones) then you get the picture of how flexible and wanted Symbian really is. It can improve a lot more and I am sure it will.

Series40 is something else and I have no idea what they are planning for it - but then again, Series40 is by no means a smartphone OS.

vodacom3g said:
Also, the built quality on the 5800 is worrisome. Feels like a plastic toy. The 97 feels a bit better though.
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The 5800 falls into the 5xxx cheap/active range of phones and there is no way you will get the same build qaulity that you would from a premium N-series device or even a 7xxx fashion range phone.

That's the thing with phone makers that have different lines of phones and not just a one-phone-is-enough porfolio.
 
<moLe> said:
thats an opinion....but heres mine, maybe nokia just know they're target market, maybe they know that most people between the ages of 45 and beyond doesn't want to adapt to a new "OS" on their phone (or pc ) every two years, maybe they just want something that looks like what they knew, but with added features as to validate the feeling of an "upgrade"? surely vodacom you must know that the greatest reason nokia has maintained they're market share is due to same reason MS has they're following..cause its what people know.
Sure S60v3/5 is not the glossiest OS, but its still up there with the big boys when it comes down to functionality.
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I own the 5800 and agree its a delicate phone.
However feature wise,it can bar fight with the best of them.
Most importantly the new os is a damn sight quicker then say s60 3rd edition.
I believe the gap between netbook and smartphone is closing in very quickly and finally i have a phone that can surf the web with as much ease as a netbook.[perhaps even more so as its alot more portable]
 
Rouxenator said:
Actually - no - they have improved Symbian in leaps and bounds. If you look at the wide variety of phones out there running on Symbian (not just Nokia phones) then you get the picture of how flexible and wanted Symbian really is. It can improve a lot more and I am sure it will.

Series40 is something else and I have no idea what they are planning for it - but then again, Series40 is by no means a smartphone OS.


The 5800 falls into the 5xxx cheap/active range of phones and there is no way you will get the same build qaulity that you would from a premium N-series device or even a 7xxx fashion range phone.

That's the thing with phone makers that have different lines of phones and not just a one-phone-is-enough porfolio.
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Agreed, the OS is not at fault. What I find surprising is that Nokia have made it difficult for users or small companies to write apps for Symbian. They have this complex security signing system which puts people off. The backlash has been owners hacking the OS and downloading unsigned copies. Series 40 has been confined to less powerful phones, but I have been very impressed with S60. Nokia were late with touch, but then Sony has hardly begun, which means they are in a panic, now that every company has a picture phone out that also plays music.
 
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