Poll: what brand and model mobile phone are you using now?
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Nokia N79... there's not much wrong with it... that I can't fix... with a hammer...
It'd be a perfectly good, well specced little candybar phone if the programming, engineering and external design hadn't been handed over to a complete bunch of clowns once the core specs had been finalised. It's got a great set of features, but the keypad and the other button arrangements are abysmal, and the symbian OS / the built in apps / device drivers have more bugs and holes than a wardrobe full of clothes which someone released a load of caterpillars into a couple years back.
It can be achingly slow to do even simple tasks - stuff that tempts me to get a 3310 to actually use as a "phone", and keep the N79 as a music/camera/minicomputer/addressbook/alarm clock/GPS/portable video player type device - various parts sometimes just stop working (like the routine that matches phone numbers to names, or makes the camera work, or places calls when you dial the number) and I've lost track of how often it's hung up entirely.
Shame though. It's slick looking and has a good battery life and signal. Like I say... if not for the lack of ergonomics and shoddy software/engineering, it would be damn good.
Having seen various people showing off their HTC Desires, I'm fairly taken with that at the moment, particularly as it seems to WORK as well as being blingy.
Edit: I posted that ^^^ last paragraph before seeing the sheer amounts of fanboy squee the phone has attracted in this thread. I'll say it's maybe missing one or two things that I actually appreciate about the Nokia (basically, TV-out, FM transmitter, and physical keypad ... oh and compact size) but nothing that I can't live without or compensate for quite easily. It fixes a whole load of problems this one has, and adds a few nice features on top. Add to that the android app store thing, and it being the first bit of phone tech I've seen in a while that genuinely made me sit up and thing "bloody hell, that's sexy" (or "nice" 9_9) - that the iPhone only ever did once, when I saw the retina screen (that they nicked off android anyway) - and it adds up to a pretty compelling package.
And it's not even expensive to get on a good-value tariff with plenty of data thrown in.
It'd be a perfectly good, well specced little candybar phone if the programming, engineering and external design hadn't been handed over to a complete bunch of clowns once the core specs had been finalised. It's got a great set of features, but the keypad and the other button arrangements are abysmal, and the symbian OS / the built in apps / device drivers have more bugs and holes than a wardrobe full of clothes which someone released a load of caterpillars into a couple years back.
It can be achingly slow to do even simple tasks - stuff that tempts me to get a 3310 to actually use as a "phone", and keep the N79 as a music/camera/minicomputer/addressbook/alarm clock/GPS/portable video player type device - various parts sometimes just stop working (like the routine that matches phone numbers to names, or makes the camera work, or places calls when you dial the number) and I've lost track of how often it's hung up entirely.
Shame though. It's slick looking and has a good battery life and signal. Like I say... if not for the lack of ergonomics and shoddy software/engineering, it would be damn good.
Having seen various people showing off their HTC Desires, I'm fairly taken with that at the moment, particularly as it seems to WORK as well as being blingy.
Edit: I posted that ^^^ last paragraph before seeing the sheer amounts of fanboy squee the phone has attracted in this thread. I'll say it's maybe missing one or two things that I actually appreciate about the Nokia (basically, TV-out, FM transmitter, and physical keypad ... oh and compact size) but nothing that I can't live without or compensate for quite easily. It fixes a whole load of problems this one has, and adds a few nice features on top. Add to that the android app store thing, and it being the first bit of phone tech I've seen in a while that genuinely made me sit up and thing "bloody hell, that's sexy" (or "nice" 9_9) - that the iPhone only ever did once, when I saw the retina screen (that they nicked off android anyway) - and it adds up to a pretty compelling package.
And it's not even expensive to get on a good-value tariff with plenty of data thrown in.
Samsung Somethingorother (I don't know what the make and model is)
I swear "Samsung" sounds like a Mortal Kombat character.
Anyway, althought my current phone has a nice pop-out keyboard for txt-messaging, I'm beginning to to think that I liked my old Motorola flip phone better.
I swear "Samsung" sounds like a Mortal Kombat character.
Anyway, althought my current phone has a nice pop-out keyboard for txt-messaging, I'm beginning to to think that I liked my old Motorola flip phone better.
I've got an HTC Desire HD, and I'm loving it. Only downside is that its batter life is rather low.
The BlackBerry Curve 8330. It works so well, 'cept for the trackball breaking every 3-5 months. (Free replacement ones though! 
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I have an X6 it's.... alright but those cons you listed do hit the nail on the head, it can't be an annoying little bugger at times when it decides it doesn't like you and refuses to accept input. Also sometimes it will randomly decide you are holding backspace when you are writing a text even when you aren't even touching the screen so everything deletes. :/ Also the OVI Store (Nokia's app. store) is a little lacking compared to that of Android or Apple but that only matters if you're into apps.they did do a major update recently though which made it less buggy (still bugs sometimes though) and added a crapton of new ones. Anyway I'm ranting. I've not actually used the sat nav mind, but i hear its pretty good. If the cons aren't enough to put your off go for it but its far from the most efficient phone ever. Still, after using it there's no way I could go back to a regular phone now, smart phones all the way.GBlair88 said:
One funny thing about the X6 is the Playlist DJ where you get your mood with little sliders to create a playlist to suit that mood, it doesn't work, apparently REMs Everybody hurts and the majority of 3DG and Linking Park songs are happy(!) Who knew. D:
Apple iPhone 3G, considering replacing it with a LG Nexus One with Android because my iPhones screen is shattered and it's starting to not respond correctly.