What Phone Do You Have?
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I still won't get an iPhone because of the touch screen. I use an iPod a lot to browse the net (like right now) and I can't stand typing on the screen.
Maybe I'm to stuck in my ways, but buttons are the way I want it to be. Preferably both touch and buttons. If only Nokia would sort out the OS. The N7 would be perfect for me, but not buying another Symbian phone ever again. And I've heard bad things about Windows Phones too so Nokia has lost my business all together.
Strange how the operating system can be so important on a phone! How the world is changing...
Maybe I'm to stuck in my ways, but buttons are the way I want it to be. Preferably both touch and buttons. If only Nokia would sort out the OS. The N7 would be perfect for me, but not buying another Symbian phone ever again. And I've heard bad things about Windows Phones too so Nokia has lost my business all together.
Strange how the operating system can be so important on a phone! How the world is changing...
- 6,131
- London
- SomaEightyFour
- MrVerloc
RIM are releasing a new BB Bold that has both a touch screen and a qwerty keyboard, BB OS 6.0 is quite nice too. I feel you on the Symbian OS though, never liked it when I had my N95, still don't like it on the N97 that's kicking about the family. I actually find typing on the iPhone's OSK much faster than when I used my Blackberry, it's probably due to the muscle memory I developed all those years ago. And then you have massive third party support in terms of apps and accessories - as a photographer it's awesome to have a few fun photography apps on your phone, it means I don't have to feel so bad about not carrying a proper camera with me all the time.
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- Kyriakos-X
I have an iphone 3G now but I will get the 4 one or the 5 one if it come out this summer. 
- 7,663
- Pasadena, MD
- Minty TS
Sony Erricson Xperia Play;
Had it for a couple days and I'm loving it. Wipes the floor with my old Motorola Droid. Granted the Droid is almost 2 years old, but that's not my point.
The audio quality is far beyond anything I've heard in a phone.
Also, in case you didn't know, it is a touch screen, so you're not restricted to using the pad to navigate.
EDIT: Alright, now that it's been a few days I'll just put up a few pros and cons about this phone. I would actually type out a whole review, but I've never been good at putting my thoughts into words.
Pros:
-It runs the latest version of Android, so you can automatically be sure the OS is great.
-Camera is 5MP but still shoots very high quality images.
-By far the best audio I've ever heard from a phone. It has 2 relatively large speakers on the back of the phone that produce extremely clear sound.
-Curved back that feels very nice in the palm of your hand.
-The sliding mechanism feels very solid, so you don't have to worry about it sliding open in your pocket or closing when you're using the gamepad.
-The game pad is also very nice, the buttons feel great and aren't too soft, so they won't click just from resting your fingers on them.
-The touch pad thumb sticks work very well when I use my smaller fingers, but unfortunately I have massive thumbs, so they require a little extra care.
-The shoulder buttons feel great, there's not much else to say about them though.
-I'm not sure on the specs, but this thing's antenna manages a connection in places where I had no hope for one with my Motorola Droid.
-I just looks awesome in black or white, but I went with black. Kind of wish I went with white because this thing is covered in fingerprints.
-The battery life is great, went for about 4 hours of playing some simple games and watching some videos and only drained to 73%.
-It also has something of an "idiot proof" SD card. If you open the battery lid, it will automatically unmount the SD safely so none of your data will be corrupted if you remove it.
-And unlike most phones I know of, the screen appears to have a kind of strange looking glowing effect when it's in direct sunlight, so when there's heavy glare it's difficult to see colors, but you can still make out what's on the screen with relative ease. I'm not sure exactly how to explain that, so I did the best I could.
-The touch screen is very smooth and quick to respond.
-The phone as a whole is fast, not the fastest, but it's definitely faster than most everything else for the money.
Cons:
-Of course, there is one problem, and that's if you don't put the battery lid on right, it will click in as usual, but slightly off center so the lock button on the top sticks, but that can be fixed by un-clicking and clicking back in the top part of the battery lid.
Well I can't really think of any other cons. It's only been a few days, but so far nothing has locked up, crashed, broken, or generally not worked well.
It's a fantastic phone, there are many of equal quality that run Android and are on Verizon, but the deciding factor for me on this was the game pad. If it weren't for that I would have gone with the slightly larger Droid X. In the en though, after using my sisters Droid X for a couple days to test it out before looking for my new phone, I still feel like this is an overall better phone, if not for the gamepad then just better audio and smooth rounded back.
So I would recommend this phone, even at full retail(at a Verizon store, Best Buy was going to overcharge for $50) if you're in the market for a new one anyway, and don't want to wait until you're eligible for an upgrade discount.
Had it for a couple days and I'm loving it. Wipes the floor with my old Motorola Droid. Granted the Droid is almost 2 years old, but that's not my point.
The audio quality is far beyond anything I've heard in a phone.
Also, in case you didn't know, it is a touch screen, so you're not restricted to using the pad to navigate.
EDIT: Alright, now that it's been a few days I'll just put up a few pros and cons about this phone. I would actually type out a whole review, but I've never been good at putting my thoughts into words.
Pros:
-It runs the latest version of Android, so you can automatically be sure the OS is great.
-Camera is 5MP but still shoots very high quality images.
-By far the best audio I've ever heard from a phone. It has 2 relatively large speakers on the back of the phone that produce extremely clear sound.
-Curved back that feels very nice in the palm of your hand.
-The sliding mechanism feels very solid, so you don't have to worry about it sliding open in your pocket or closing when you're using the gamepad.
-The game pad is also very nice, the buttons feel great and aren't too soft, so they won't click just from resting your fingers on them.
-The touch pad thumb sticks work very well when I use my smaller fingers, but unfortunately I have massive thumbs, so they require a little extra care.
-The shoulder buttons feel great, there's not much else to say about them though.
-I'm not sure on the specs, but this thing's antenna manages a connection in places where I had no hope for one with my Motorola Droid.
-I just looks awesome in black or white, but I went with black. Kind of wish I went with white because this thing is covered in fingerprints.
-The battery life is great, went for about 4 hours of playing some simple games and watching some videos and only drained to 73%.
-It also has something of an "idiot proof" SD card. If you open the battery lid, it will automatically unmount the SD safely so none of your data will be corrupted if you remove it.
-And unlike most phones I know of, the screen appears to have a kind of strange looking glowing effect when it's in direct sunlight, so when there's heavy glare it's difficult to see colors, but you can still make out what's on the screen with relative ease. I'm not sure exactly how to explain that, so I did the best I could.
-The touch screen is very smooth and quick to respond.
-The phone as a whole is fast, not the fastest, but it's definitely faster than most everything else for the money.
Cons:
-Of course, there is one problem, and that's if you don't put the battery lid on right, it will click in as usual, but slightly off center so the lock button on the top sticks, but that can be fixed by un-clicking and clicking back in the top part of the battery lid.
Well I can't really think of any other cons. It's only been a few days, but so far nothing has locked up, crashed, broken, or generally not worked well.
It's a fantastic phone, there are many of equal quality that run Android and are on Verizon, but the deciding factor for me on this was the game pad. If it weren't for that I would have gone with the slightly larger Droid X. In the en though, after using my sisters Droid X for a couple days to test it out before looking for my new phone, I still feel like this is an overall better phone, if not for the gamepad then just better audio and smooth rounded back.
So I would recommend this phone, even at full retail(at a Verizon store, Best Buy was going to overcharge for $50) if you're in the market for a new one anyway, and don't want to wait until you're eligible for an upgrade discount.
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- 15,532
- Cairo, Egypt
- GTP_SEMS
Would love to hear your full thoughts about Xplay .
- 17,337
- United Kingdom
So, thought I'd actually get my first new phone ever... previous ones have normally been 3rd or 4th hand slightly broken ones, with Pay as you Go sims... this time thought I may as well do it properly, so I got a HTC Desire S ... its alright I suppose, I don't have high expectations since I know nothing about phones!
- 532
Orange San Francisco.
- 8,707
- Utah
- ceiling_fan
Have had a Droid X for about 5 months now, I'm extremely satisfied with my purchase.
Pros:
Android OS is fine for the most part
Screen bigger than my front lawn
Runs fast
No problems with battery life (I don't play any games other than Scrabble though and don't shoot video or anything. I dick around with my phone all day at work on GTPlanet, web browsing, texting etc.)
Lots of good free apps
Cons:
around 5% of the time, unlocking the screen causes a system reset
Android / Motorola system quirks (autoloading apps...)
Comes with bloatware (only uninstallable if you root your phone, which I did.)
Camera isn't as good as I expected
Pros:
Android OS is fine for the most part
Screen bigger than my front lawn
Runs fast
No problems with battery life (I don't play any games other than Scrabble though and don't shoot video or anything. I dick around with my phone all day at work on GTPlanet, web browsing, texting etc.)
Lots of good free apps
Cons:
around 5% of the time, unlocking the screen causes a system reset
Android / Motorola system quirks (autoloading apps...)
Comes with bloatware (only uninstallable if you root your phone, which I did.)
Camera isn't as good as I expected
- 535
- p-coletrey
EVO 4G froyo rooted, overclocked, blazing phone.
- 6,146
- Germany
Bought the Samsung Galaxy 3 about 2 Weeks ago.
Totally satisfied with this thing, as usual with stuff from Samsung.
Got Android 2.1, did an upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo 2 Days ago.
Got now a huge battery life.
Runs with the normal usage (Angry Birds, SMS, Facebook, Internet, 3G and WiFi switched on) almost 4 Days through.
- 6,948
- United Kingdom
After 2 flawless years with the E71, I decided to sell it and got myself an N97. Been wanting this for a year!
I would have personally got something like the E7 if you wanted to get a Symbian phone unless money was the issue. My favourite Symbian phone was the Nokia E90. I bought an N97 Mini as a temporary replacement when my E90 broke and was suprised how bad Symbian became with S60V5. Everything felt so limiting and the hardware power of the N97 Mini is very poor, worse than my old E90. Symbian started to climb back up Symbian 3 in terms of performance and usability but looks like it will in a few years time hit a dead end with Nokia switching to WP7 primarily.
I have now got myself a Nokia N900 and even though it has limited support, I like the fact you can run different operating systems and that Maemo is proper linux unlike Android. You can run Open Office on it too and other PC apps. I maybe would have upgraded to the N950 but Nokia is keeping that a development device so my next upgrade will be when someone releases a 28nm CPU GPU phone with Meego OS and a good keyboard. I think that will be sometime in 2012 so look forward to better battery life and fast web browsing to be finally in smartphones.
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- Kuala Lumpur
- CHVRCHES_GTP
The E7 has got the same design as the N8 and costs double as much as my N97M. So money is obviously the issue 
I have to agree the E90 was and still is a very good phone. My dad used it for about a couple of months, about 3 years ago when it was still very new in the market. The only issue he had with it is the enormous size. Didn't even fit in my dad's jeans!
The N97M pretty much fits my criteria. Touh screen and a QWERTY keyboard but one day I still will find its replacement - a much better one for sure
I have to agree the E90 was and still is a very good phone. My dad used it for about a couple of months, about 3 years ago when it was still very new in the market. The only issue he had with it is the enormous size. Didn't even fit in my dad's jeans!
The N97M pretty much fits my criteria. Touh screen and a QWERTY keyboard but one day I still will find its replacement - a much better one for sure
- 7,517
- Connecticut
- Cowboys965
Sony Ericcson W518b I think
http://emob1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee428/Cowboys964/1309623442.jpg?t=1309623443
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Cale
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- 6,078
- Rochester, NY
- CaleDeRoo
Have had a Droid X for about 5 months now, I'm extremely satisfied with my purchase.
Pros:
Android OS is fine for the most part
Screen bigger than my front lawn
Runs fast
No problems with battery life (I don't play any games other than Scrabble though and don't shoot video or anything. I dick around with my phone all day at work on GTPlanet, web browsing, texting etc.)
Lots of good free apps
Cons:
around 5% of the time, unlocking the screen causes a system reset
Android / Motorola system quirks (autoloading apps...)
Comes with bloatware (only uninstallable if you root your phone, which I did.)
Camera isn't as good as I expected
The camera needs natural light. At least that's what I've found.
