The Best Mobile You Owned is ?
Discussion
As the title suggests really.
For many years ran nokia 8 series, last year the 8800 Arte went kaput and I got an i phone. Now I may be getting a work colleagues S^ Edge
But I would be much happier with another Arte. It works for me simply because I don't need to use e mail on the move. Tweeting and facebooking my latest purchase from the shop doesn't hold any appeal.
I know I am a bit of a special case but ..............
For many years ran nokia 8 series, last year the 8800 Arte went kaput and I got an i phone. Now I may be getting a work colleagues S^ Edge
But I would be much happier with another Arte. It works for me simply because I don't need to use e mail on the move. Tweeting and facebooking my latest purchase from the shop doesn't hold any appeal.
I know I am a bit of a special case but ..............
For me it's the Blackberry Bold 9900.
Best phone I ever owned, and I personally think it's the best phone BB ever made. It was the perfect combination of a physical keyboard, touchscreen and optical trackpad. The keyboard was a joy to use, I could type on that as quickly and accurately as I could on any computer or laptop. The OS for me was rock solid too, very fluid, very well integrated and easy to use. The build quality was also very good, was a solid phone all round. Only things that let it down was the poor camera (no autofocus) and the lack of some mainstream apps. But as a pure and simple communications device, I've never had better.
Best phone I ever owned, and I personally think it's the best phone BB ever made. It was the perfect combination of a physical keyboard, touchscreen and optical trackpad. The keyboard was a joy to use, I could type on that as quickly and accurately as I could on any computer or laptop. The OS for me was rock solid too, very fluid, very well integrated and easy to use. The build quality was also very good, was a solid phone all round. Only things that let it down was the poor camera (no autofocus) and the lack of some mainstream apps. But as a pure and simple communications device, I've never had better.
figz said:
For me it's the Blackberry Bold 9900.
Best phone I ever owned, and I personally think it's the best phone BB ever made. It was the perfect combination of a physical keyboard, touchscreen and optical trackpad. The keyboard was a joy to use, I could type on that as quickly and accurately as I could on any computer or laptop. The OS for me was rock solid too, very fluid, very well integrated and easy to use. The build quality was also very good, was a solid phone all round. Only things that let it down was the poor camera (no autofocus) and the lack of some mainstream apps. But as a pure and simple communications device, I've never had better.
I preferred the 9790. Pretty much the same thing but smaller and with autofocus.Best phone I ever owned, and I personally think it's the best phone BB ever made. It was the perfect combination of a physical keyboard, touchscreen and optical trackpad. The keyboard was a joy to use, I could type on that as quickly and accurately as I could on any computer or laptop. The OS for me was rock solid too, very fluid, very well integrated and easy to use. The build quality was also very good, was a solid phone all round. Only things that let it down was the poor camera (no autofocus) and the lack of some mainstream apps. But as a pure and simple communications device, I've never had better.
figz said:
For me it's the Blackberry Bold 9900.
Best phone I ever owned, and I personally think it's the best phone BB ever made. It was the perfect combination of a physical keyboard, touchscreen and optical trackpad. The keyboard was a joy to use, I could type on that as quickly and accurately as I could on any computer or laptop. The OS for me was rock solid too, very fluid, very well integrated and easy to use. The build quality was also very good, was a solid phone all round. Only things that let it down was the poor camera (no autofocus) and the lack of some mainstream apps. But as a pure and simple communications device, I've never had better.
I agree, I had one then went to an android creation that was crap. It was a great phone!Best phone I ever owned, and I personally think it's the best phone BB ever made. It was the perfect combination of a physical keyboard, touchscreen and optical trackpad. The keyboard was a joy to use, I could type on that as quickly and accurately as I could on any computer or laptop. The OS for me was rock solid too, very fluid, very well integrated and easy to use. The build quality was also very good, was a solid phone all round. Only things that let it down was the poor camera (no autofocus) and the lack of some mainstream apps. But as a pure and simple communications device, I've never had better.
Hated the Bold, it was too much of everything to be particularly good at anything. Touch screen, wooooh...oh, it's not as big a screen as the iPhone
Trackball, wooooh, only it's not the same trackball as the early BBs
Good battery, woooooh...only it didn't last as long as the earlier BBs because it spent so much energy trying to get the screen and keys to be ready.
The Bold is the perfect example of where Blackberry started falling apart to me.
The GPS sucked arse, the signal wasn't great. I can only praise it's build quality and the best use I had for mine was to hold the office door ajar on smoke breaks when I'd forgotten my swipe card.
The best mobile I've ever had I think was an old Nokia 6310, followed by the iPhone 3GS when it first came out
Trackball, wooooh, only it's not the same trackball as the early BBs
Good battery, woooooh...only it didn't last as long as the earlier BBs because it spent so much energy trying to get the screen and keys to be ready.
The Bold is the perfect example of where Blackberry started falling apart to me.
The GPS sucked arse, the signal wasn't great. I can only praise it's build quality and the best use I had for mine was to hold the office door ajar on smoke breaks when I'd forgotten my swipe card.
The best mobile I've ever had I think was an old Nokia 6310, followed by the iPhone 3GS when it first came out
mojitomax said:
iphone 5s, good size and performance and fingerprint unlocking
upgraded to a 6s and its too big.
i hope they bring back a smaller size in the 7 next year
I agree. upgraded to a 6s and its too big.
i hope they bring back a smaller size in the 7 next year
For me, unless they announce a smaller iP7, then I believe that the iPhone 5S could very well be the peak of the iPhone.
Size wise, it was spot for one-handed usage, but the screen was still big/sharp enough never to be a struggle to use. Performance was more than adequate for nearly everything I used it for. It felt 'premium'. It felt as though it would last, and mine did very well. It was used without a case on a building site everyday for 2 years, and whilst looking very tired and well used, it never missed a beat.
Nokia 3310 saw me through a couple of years as a teenager. That thing was thrown about, dropped several times and generally abused. Still have it in a drawer and a new battery would see it right.
Currently got a Nexus 5 and apart from the camera being poorer than the iPhone 5 it replaced it is proving to be an excellent smart phone and great value for money.
Currently got a Nexus 5 and apart from the camera being poorer than the iPhone 5 it replaced it is proving to be an excellent smart phone and great value for money.
techiedave said:
As the title suggests really.
For many years ran nokia 8 series, last year the 8800 Arte went kaput and I got an i phone.......
I know I am a bit of a special case but ..............
Still have my old one (8800 arte), occasionally stumble upon it in the back of the draw ...work of art, pinnacle of mobile phone before we all had to go "smart" For many years ran nokia 8 series, last year the 8800 Arte went kaput and I got an i phone.......
I know I am a bit of a special case but ..............
Other greats were the Ericsson 237 and Nokia 2110 (with a whip ariel) .....or the original smart phone nokia 9000
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