[Closed] which new smart phone?

Mobile phones give you ear cancer.

great - that will add to the throat cancer from spraying molykote all day and the prostate cancer from riding my bike.

or maybe the daily mail has published a story saying that all of the above will actually prevent cancer !

you are not your mobile phone. you are not your phillip stark rocket lemon squeezer, you are not your VAG car, but you do have wonderful hair, who's your stylist?

I have a HTC Legend, the Desire is a bigger, faster version of that. The Legend is brilliant, the calendar will sync with outlook, you can get a free app for to do lists that will sync too. It would be nice to have something that combined both (like the old Psion, the best organiser ever), maybe there is an app that can do that already. Google earth is a breeze even on my smaller screen.

What about a[url= http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones/nokia-n8?intc=ncomprod-fw-ilc-bdy-con-na-ncomprodeu-gb-20-n8preorder_0x0 ] Nokia N8[/url] if you like the Nokias?

Edit: Whoops. Only available to pre-order at the mo.

you aint seen my hair - got ****ed off with it here , didnt fancy hair dressers in africa so bought scissors 😀 - looking rough !

will look at n8 - nokias seem to be the only phones that ever last me

don't buy a nokia, it will seduce you prior to launch promising the world and then once you get your mitts on it you'll discover that A the firmware isn't finished and B its shit.

don't buy a nokia, it will seduce you prior to launch promising the world and then once you get your mitts on it you'll discover that A the firmware isn't finished and B its shit.

That is probably the most succinct summing up of all the new Nokias from the last couple of years I have heard.

Have a cookie Mr Nutt.

currently got an e71 - best phone ive had to date - only one ive not sent back !

had a 6600 in the past too - although ugly was ace - then i got a couple of XDAS (htc in disguise) and they were guff ! clunky and crashy warrentied 4 or 5 times !

Once you have a BlackBerry you won't go back! I've got the Bold 9700 and it can do everything you want of it, plus they have the new touch screen BB coming out soon.

plus they have the new touch screen BB coming out soon.

RIM really are on the cutting edge now eh?

At least they know how to make batteries 🙂

If you don't want an iPhone 4

Galaxy s here. Nice phone. Good screen and response. Needs a crease or two ironing out like the gps (update coming soon) and the lag (run the lag fix, google is your friend). Once these are sorted then it flies.

Do they all work in USA these days (quad band, or whatever it is now) ?

palmer77 - Member
Once you have a BlackBerry you won't go back! I've got the Bold 9700 and it can do everything you want of it, plus they have the new touch screen BB coming out soon.

Was forced away from my Nokia E72 to BB at work. It is worse in absolutely every important respect. BB are OK for email but utter rubbish for everything else.

trail-rat, if you like your E71, why not go for an E72. Dead boring, but just a bit better everywhere.

mobile phones give you ear cancer

The Xperia X10 gives you soul cancer.

How about a pidgeon with a laptop strapped to it?

+1 for HTC Legend here.

Got it over the Desire as the Desire is a little bit plasticy for my liking and a little bit bigger. Chap at work has one which I have had a play with. Also, he had trouble with the back continually falling off of his. The Legend is hewn from a single block of aluminium and looks pretty cool even when its not doing anything.

(bit like a mac really)

There is also a Samsung Galaxy in the office. Amazing screen on it, but again feels very plasticy and I would be in constant fear of snapping it in half if it were in my pocket.

If you have a Google mail account on which you store your contacts, e-mails, maps; a Flickr account for your photos; a facebook account and a twitter account (not to update the world on your day to day activities but to keep bang up to date with current affairs / cycling news) you can sync the lot to an HTC phone very very easily.

Very, very impressed with the Legend

my e71 worked in the usa , paris, cyprus , new zealand austrailia and dubai

doesnt work in equitorial guinea - its the phone not the provider as a workmate also on o2 has no issues and i have it activated for world wide usage.

doesnt work in equitorial guinea

😀 aim to please

its quite important for me , i think ill be flying in and out of hell till february !

google is your friend, no its not its a business.

i have a judasphone4, it just works... ...99% of the time

and will cost me 300 quid on contract AND 50 quid a month to get what i get at the moment(for 20 quid) and they wont do any deals .... any other phone pretty much they will practically give me and honour my 20 quid contract !

some things are worth paying for but i dont value my communication that much - for that price i can live without it.

In a few weeks I need to choose between a Lazarus phone and a Gandhi phone, but in the back of my mind, I feel like striking out and getting a Jehovah phone.

My HTC Legend was free on a £25 month contract.

I fail to see how much better the Jesusphone4 can be to warrant the additional outlay of ownership.

I've had my galaxy s about a week. Seems alright, it's pretty big though and would probably have preferred an iphone 4 but it's a hell of a lot cheaper and does all the same stuff.

GPS doesn't work at all on mine which sucks but is allegedly fixed soon.

it comes with a smug grin and glass that's easy to put big deep scratches in with keys of course.

HTC Desire + a spare battery and a decent case - nr Tough phone that last ages and does everything.

Don't get a Sony Ericsson, if it has the Symbian OS my Vivaz has then it's shite, they want me to spend £9 on a pdf reader, it never works, the battery life is about 19 seconds, the touch screen requires you to have needles for fingers. Have had SE (or Ericsson) for 9 years but after this one I'm changing...

Word on the street is production is stopping on the galaxy S (super amoled capacity issues) so they'll be hard to get soon.

Despite the occasional lag and GPS issues the galaxy is probably the best of those three android phones. Desire would be better if it wasn't for the screen (gash outdoors).

I've an X10, which given how much you can customise android (and most reviews you'll find are of it stock on early firmware) is decent, with a great screen. None of these will have the battery life you're used to with the E71.

However, the X10's been sat gathering dust the last two weeks since I got an N8. I could write a lot about it, but instead I'll direct you to the various articles over on http://thehandheldblog.com/ basically the more I use it the more I like it, it's a lot better than previous symbian touch phones.

(edit vivaz completely different to an X10, the vivaz is fairly well recognised as an abortion of a symbian phone)

Oh and if you like the E71, can you get an E5? Had one on trial a couple of weeks now and for that style of phone it's pretty hard to fault it. (i prefer my N8 mind, but it's a different style of phone entirely)

Don't get a Sony Ericsson, if it has the Symbian OS my Vivaz has then it's shite

Xperia X10 has the Android OS.

I've the X10 Mini, does what I need it to do.

Tom - the SE X10/Experia is Android, not Symbian.

But yes, Symbian is utter cack.

But yes, Symbian is utter cack

I'd qualify that by restricting it to the touch-phone. As the OP says, he liked his (symbian) E71. Even on the touch phones, it compares well against stuff in the price bracket. E.g. what touch screen android phone can you get for 5230 money? (£70)

Anyhow, to actually answer the OP, from that list I'd get the Galaxy S.

right im going to fight for a nokia - even if i have to buy it my self sim free and just get a basic contract .... i know they world if i avoid the lifestyle handsets - all my mates n series phones have been garbage - all of the folk i know with E series phones havnt had issues.

hell i might just look into a new e71 see if ebay or the likes has old NOS ones - thats how happy i am with the phone

From that list,

Samsung Galaxy S , the sony xperia x10 or the HTC desire

The x10 is still languishing on Android 1.5, last I looked. Nice phone, no support.

Between the other two, the Galaxy S is the better phone on paper, though there's not a lot in it. However, if you take a look at the forums for both handsets on androidforums.com, the Galaxy S is full of people having issues with the phone; chiefly GPS issues (which Samsung are promising 'improvements' on (not a fix, note) in future updates), and lag problems (for which there are various hacks to fix but no official solution.)

As a jaded Galaxy (original) owner, I'd take any promises of updates from Samsung with a pinch of salt; they've been diabolically bad with the Galaxy. For that reason, I'm out.

Get a Desire.

The new HTC Desire HD comes out on the 11th of October, so I'd wait and get that.

[b][u]DONT GET THE N8 IF YOU ARE A MOUNTAIN BIKER[/u][/b]

[u][b]WHY NOT?![/b][/u]

[b][u]YEAH. WHY NOT?![/b][/u]

Interesting reading the Mrs is due and upgrade we looked at Desire and Galaxy S last night she preferred the Galaxy. I'll keep an eye on the thread if it continues.

N8 looked very nice, some nice features but it uses Ovi which is a steaming pile of poop. What a way to spoil a good smart phone.

Ref N8:

You make a call, on the touch screen is a large red 'finish call button'. Put this anywhere near your face (or whiskers) and you'll abruptly end the call. I ended up talking as though I was nibblying a waifer.

Just basic functions, you know making a call or previous dialled etc- is a hunt. On the whole/general note its not intuitive enough and its very delicate. Too delicate. The casing is quite thin so it wouldn't take much force to flex the casing and crack the screen.

The Desire is an excellent phone. It's my second HTC now (after the original G1) and the Android/HTC combo is a winner...

Can't imagine any touch screen phone / big screen phone being great for biking..

N8 looks good to me for non-sport activities, OS looks very powerful, ok it doesnt have eye candy, but so what? Camera is best of any phone

Its data/networking capabilities are significantly better too than other phones, see link for comparison to Galaxy

http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=3252&idPhone2=3115

N8 + a cheap tough phone/phone you dont care about for biking perhaps?

Hora > On the last two phones I've had there's a proximity sensor which disables the keypad if it's near your face. Does the N8 not have that at all, or did you use a broken one? Seems a massive design flaw if so.

"we looked at Desire and Galaxy S"

The Galaxy S has issues and Samsung's support is basically "we don't give a sh!t". I was in the same boat not so long ago, and initally thought that the Galaxy S was the one for me till I started trawling through forums. I now have a Desire and I recommend it highly, it's the wasp's nipples.

I'm hoping to get upgrade my phone in the next week or so. Top of the list is the HTC Desire, althought the Legend could be tempting instead (cheaper = better for finding in your pocket halfway round a ride).

Looked into the Desire HD, but its something like 16% bigger and 25% heavier than the normal desire so cant be bothered with that

I gor my new HTC Desire HD and its the doggies do do's, it does everything and more I could ask from a smartphone, very easy to setup and comes preloaded with loads of apps, it also sync's easily with my previous phone to transfer all my contacts, calender etc and the screen is nice and large very clear along with the HD Video and 8 megapixel camera I can get some nice footage of family and rides. Don't know what all the fuss is about that these iphone zomie's harp on about 😉

Cougar, am going through

- settings
=(phone)- nope ...

Hang on

- settings
=(call)- nope...

"sensor settings"

Only one option 'turning control' - already ON.

Can't imagine any touch screen phone / big screen phone being great for biking..

I forgot about this, probably the most capable tough phone

http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/XW-EN/Consumer-Products-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/MOTOROLA-DEFY-XW-EN

Hora > perhaps it's broken?

I got a Desire HD last weekend, my first 'smart' phone and am really impressed by it.

Some folks have a complaint about short battery life but if you stick the settings widget on a home screen then it's easy to turn the Network, GPS & WiFi on and off, with it off most of the time battery life is fine...

Nobody think the Desire HD is a bit on the chunky side then??

Legend - Member
Nobody think the Desire HD is a bit on the chunky side then??

It may not be the smallest phone there is but it's not that much bigger than the E 71 I had before it,

I suspect the new blackberry is going to be right on the money. typing on a touchscreen is a pita whereas the new blackberry has both. also the batteries last a good few days. the only problem with the other bb's is the smaller screen, however like me you may find after getting the smart phone you should've stuck with a regular phone and got an iPad (or similar)

I'd never own another samsung cack phone cack customer service. Samsung seem happy to release second rate phones and allow the public to beta test them then ignore the negative feedback.

Ha! Anyone who thinks modern smartphones are bulky has obviously never handled one of these:
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still got mine kicking around somewhere. Worth about a tenner secondhand.

That would be the Mini-S, no? I have mine right here, dug it out the other day as a temporary replacement.

N8 slammed in smartphone review in todays Times