Top cellphone brands

[jetlee]

Being involved in software development on mobile platforms, we often get a number of phones to test on, these are some conclusions.

Nokia - Average - good overall build quality, poor implementation of standards across development standards, Average cost, Excellent Marketing

Sony Ericcson - Average overall build quailty, average implementation of standards across development standards, Average - Low Cost, Average Marketing

Blackberry - Excellent Build Quality, Excellent Implementation of standards across development standards, Average - High Cost, Below Average Marketing

HTC - Good Build Quality, Average implementation of standards across development standards, Average - High Cost, Average Marketing

Samsung - Just plain BAD

Motorola - Hangs with Samsung

But thats just my 2 cents .. have recently been testing on a Blackberry 8310 Curve .. man what a phone .. awesome (Currently am a SE fanatic (P1i) .. at my own peril .. been burnt by Sony numerous occasions .. but I still come back ... strange .. hmmmm(awaiting the xperia and htc touch pro with baited breath)

 

[Rouxenator]

I hate nokia - I have had the N70 for almost two years now (sigh....upgrade is on the horizon) and the phone is slow.

Before the N82 I would not concider a S60 Symbian phone from Nokia - they were crap and slow (and I am Nokia fan). With the N82 they have given the phone enought RAM and also dual ARM-11 CPUs. This is pretty much what you need when you want to run an OS as heavy as Symbian.

If you do not need multitasking and all the other features you might want to look at the new Series 40 FP6 phones. They are extremely fast (like all Series 40 phones) and come with support (if the hardware has is) for everything including GPS and WiFi.

Remember, the firmware (OS) of a Series 40 phone is between 20MB and 30MB. Series 60 phones like the N82 goes up to 120MB so they are a lot heavier.

SE does make good phones but I have an issue with proprieatary hardware like the Sony Memory Stick format. I have worked on HTC but found it very slow - but that was a while back so maybe thay have sorted out things like Nokia did with the N82 vs N70.

I love my Nokia 6234, its the best phone I have ever owned. A Ericsson I had back in 2001 was the second best. The rest where Nokias and the worst was a R1500 Samsung. I gave it away after 2 months. Hated the thing.

I have to agree with you there - the Nokia 6233 (Vodafone 6234) is an amazing Series 40 FP3 phone. I used mine a lot (especially as MP3 player) and it never put a foot wrong (just hated the Java Email Client and Calculator). I kept the firmware up to date (did about 3 upgrades in the 1.5 years I had it) and I even changed the covers of it from time to time (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFQM5nv27w0 )

 

[dabbler]

I think the next survey should only include the phones you would LIKE to have, and NOT the phone you currently use. Might make the results more interesting