Continuation from my entry on phone ownership earlier.:)
There’s been a bunch of phones I’ve been keeping an eye on since deciding to change my mobile last week. There’s quite a bewildering array of devices to suit every price and need. As these things go too, as you own and change these devices, your requirements on what you need the gadget to do crystallizes into a ‘required’ feature set.
For myself, and running off my head:
Played around a lot with the Apple iPhone 3G courtesy of student project groups. It has the most visually appealing OS, but has a – relatively by today’s standards – a lower spec screen. Application use is retarded whoops restrictive unless you’re willing to break it with third party software. Camera and video imaging is horrible + non-existent.
HTC Touch HD has the most amazing screen and incredible specs. Runs on a supremely customizable OS with free software up the gazook. Windows Mobile however is also stupefying-ly clunky, unattractive outside the proprietary 3D interface slapped up by HTC.
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has a very good screen, runs on Symbian OS (hooray!). Very cheap too. However – and would you believe it – until recently the model had a manufacturing defect, as reported here. Also, seems to have a really plasticky build.
So, there’s one phone I’m keeping my eye on: the Samsung Omnia HD (pictured here) which seems, on paper at least, to include all the plus and none of the minuses: a great screen approaching that of the Touch HD, Symbian OS (hooray!), chargeable off a USB port, HD video recording (oh my!!). The phone’s yet to be released though LOL.
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