NEW PHONE: N8 / Moto Milestone, XT720 / HTC?

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Hi Guys

After an unfortunate incident leaving my Nokia 5800 permanently disabled (did you know the 5800 can bounce to a height in excess of 60cm and remain almost fully intact?) I am in need of a replacement phone.

Here are my thoughts:

I (still) like Symbian, despite the fact that it is not made for touchscreens atm, so was thinking about the N8 (w/ free lifetime navigation). What do you guys think? Any owners on the forum?
Also was looking at the Moto Milestone and XT720. Not sure about build quality and performance. Still a bit sceptic about Android as a whole, also.
Then thought about HTC, but don't know much about the brand, but they seem to do everything they do, well. Any advise about hardware qwerty / touchscreens combos from them would be appreciated.

Because of symbian, I've grown afraid of touchscreen-only phones, but still like the convenience of a large screen. Hence the idea of getting a handset with a hardware keyboard.

Main use of phone would be multimedia (music mostly), web-browsing, use as a flash drive, occasional imaging.
 
Desire HD vs Galaxy i9000.

That's the real question.

On MTN the Desire HD actually works out cheaper. I reckon their SGS pricing hasn't been thought out properly...
 
Rands said:
dont even ask, everyone is going to say HTC!
the desire hd is a really good phone on paper, noone knows how it actually performs here cos its not out yet.

just saw on gsmarena that the nokia N7 is to be released early in December : http://www.gsmarena.com/the_qwerty_slider_nokia_e7_hits_the_stores_on_10_december-news-2061.php

just to make your choice more difficult :)
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You mean the E7? Yeah, I saw. I are be confusion now.

Budza said:
Desire HD vs Galaxy i9000.

That's the real question.

On MTN the Desire HD actually works out cheaper. I reckon their SGS pricing hasn't been thought out properly...
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Eish, not a fan of Samsung. Is it really worth the fuss?
 
to me android only makes sense with HTCSense. TouchWiz or MotoBlur doesnt look appealing to me.

Go HTC Desire HD or HTC Desire Z.

You will enjoy the cloud services that HTCSense 2 comes with
 
Synaesthesia said:
Everyone says that! Yeah it's not your average Samsung phone, it's well made.
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I've seen a friends. Very impressed. Haven't seen the Desire HD- seen the HD2 though. Those are nice too.

Samsungs nce and light, for the screen size/battery capacity. The 8GB built in is great.
 
Synaesthesia said:
Everyone says that! Yeah it's not your average Samsung phone, it's well made.

How about an iPhone?
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Played with an iphone 4 recently. Kept thinking it's missing something.

I'll have a look at the Samsung as well.
 
I'm in the market for a new phone to. Currently have the BB bold 9700, and my nokia E71 is due for upgrade. Was seriously thinking about the iPhone 4 and the Nokia N8.
But after reading a few reviews the symbian 3 OS doesn't seem much better than the one on my E71 at the moment. Is the HTC really that great? I will be using it for browsing lots,
emails, documents, and possibly some movie watching while travelling.
 
I'm pulling toward the N8. I do take a lot of pictures and the N8 seems brilliant. Nokia's GPS software works off-line and with Voice navigation.Not sure about the web browser though. Did Nokia not recently launch a Webkit based browser as well?
 
I would go for the N8 as Nokia's hardware is generally superior, but they are all great phones.
 
Vega said:
I'm in the market for a new phone to. Currently have the BB bold 9700, and my nokia E71 is due for upgrade. Was seriously thinking about the iPhone 4 and the Nokia N8.
But after reading a few reviews the symbian 3 OS doesn't seem much better than the one on my E71 at the moment. Is the HTC really that great? I will be using it for browsing lots,
emails, documents, and possibly some movie watching while travelling.
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That's the thing - Nokia's hardware is decent, but the UI seems many moons ago. Wish they would wake up.

Daniedj said:
I'm pulling toward the N8. I do take a lot of pictures and the N8 seems brilliant. Nokia's GPS software works off-line and with Voice navigation.Not sure about the web browser though. Did Nokia not recently launch a Webkit based browser as well?
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The QT browser? Isn't it being released sometime this month? Assuming it is on par with the other browsers from Android and the like.

If that's the case, maybe I'd go with the N8.
 
in what world is nokia's hardware superior to the HTC Desire HD or Samsung's Galaxy S? Sure, the N8 has a very nice camera, but it's a phone first and it runs on a 680Mhz processor.
 
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joelus said:
Thanks but I actually meant what I said: I would go for the N8 as Nokia's hardware is generally superior...
(Their build quality is generally superior too)
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Do you actually know where Nokia get their RAM, CPU and circuit boards from? :wtf:

You are the inside informant then? Well....let me tell you....and this might be hard, might even shock you.... it's all made in China.

*Get yourself the Nokio if it makes you happy.
 
N8 sample pic @ 9MP: http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9180/04112010019.jpg

Symbian^3 is by far the best symbian yet IMO. If you're familiar with it then there's little adjustment required, but it's far better than any of the previous incarnations with most of the quirks fixed. It's not quite as slick as iOS, but it's still great.

What it lacks in the OS department, it more than makes up for in the hardware and features department. A few things off the top of my head (I'll omit the camera because everyone knows about that by now):
- The Nokia maps are great, and you get a free lifetime navigation subscription.
- FM transmitter, which I find myself using quite frequently (play the music on the phone, set it to broadcast on an arb frequency, tune car radio to said frequency and it plays in your car.)
- Free 6 month subscription to unlimited music from the Ovi music store. The great part is that virtually everything is DRM-free.
- HDMI out
- 720p video recording
- USB charging (nothing special, but if you've come from a previous Nokia then you'll wonder what took Nokia so long)
- Hardware accelerator
- Support for all the usual video and audio codecs - it's played virtually everything I've thrown at it
- a few more that I can't think of right now.

So yeah I'd say that some things go beyond just the OS, such as the value that you actually get with the phone.

/5c, but the decision is ultimately yours.
 
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