So what is the best smart-phone on the market and why?
I just got a blackberry and I am still trying to figure out how to work all the details. Every day I find some thing new. One thing I think I would have to point out if you are in the market for a smart phone is to figure out what you want to use it for…work or entertainment. It seems as if the palm, blackberry’s are more for a business type usage and the samsung, Iphone are more for play. It’s hard to say what is the best cause each one has things the others don’t and vice versa. I think the new palm that is coming out soon is going to rock…From what I hear if a iphone and blackberry hooked up and had a illegitimate baby phone the palm is what would pop out.
I’ve got my eye on that bad boy. Dropped my iphone a few weeks back and have been dealing with a busted screen since. Apple wants a few hundred bucks to replace it so I may just go over to sprint and wait for that Pre.
Touch screens frighten me. For one my fingers are to fat to work them and two I can get clumsy with my phones(buckets of water, dropping off ladders, throwing them into walls, or just wanting the new gadget).
I just got the samsung omnia from verizon. It runs on windows mobile. So far I really like it.
I did have a blackberry, and I loved it. But the omnia, sinces it’s windows mobile, can operate more programs. One program in particular is wmwifirouter. With it you can take the internet from you phone and broadcast it over wifi from the phone. So it basically turns the phone into a wifi router. This way I don’t have to pay the 60 dollars a month for a aircard.
I was worried about the touch screen too… but with a good screen protector you don’t have to worry so much. Typing on the omnia is a lot easier then I thought it would be…
The iphone is cool, but I don’t want to go to att. I’ve heard that signal is spotty around here. Most of my friends and family are on verizon, so the mobile to mobile minutes are a big deal.
I carry insurance on all my phones. I’m still careful about dropping the phone in the bucket, but I know if I do it’s not the worst thing in the world.
If your phone ever gets wet, take the battery off as fast as you can. Wrap the phone with a paper towel and place it in a container filled with rice. The rice will help draw out the moisture.
Which palm in particular do you like. I have/had the VZ6800 which drove me nuts. I went back to a basic phone just to have my sanity back. Now I’m looking.
Google Palm Pre
I’ve been using Palms for the last 5 years - I like the softwear (computer/phone transfer) & all the other add-ons (phone ring higher/write on screen/wc lists/pdf/word).
Its good to see Scotts views i.e. work/entertainment viewpoint. The Blackberry looked a little primative to the palm a couple of years a go. I do like the idea of the iphone - maybe once I have an applemac I’ll go all the way.
A few years back my wife wanted a smart phone to keep up with email and possibly check the banking from her phone if she needed to. She got a motorola Q. I don’t know if it was just me but that phone sucked. No banking I guess the phone does not have ssl. On top of that getting email synced and word or excel items synced was a royal pain and never worked well at all. The one thing that has burned me about some smart phones is the software. They will give all these promises of what the phone can do but when you get it you have to buy apps to do it all. My blackberry wasn’t so bad, most were already on the phone. Iphones the apps are way cheap. My wife just got a new phone from ALLtel. I would say stay away from alltel exclusive phones. They will bend you over for everything. the apps offered for her phone are $10.99-29.99 per app and most have a monthly fee. at least the blackberry gives you most of what you need for free. I am hoping that by the time the Palm Pre is out Alltel will have merged fully so I can that one.
