Best Smart Phone

[pmanson]

VEX said:

I Like the look of the HTC TyTN II with TomTom on it

That's what i've got! (Well a T-Mobile vario III) Great bit of kit which works very well.

TomTom wise... Voice commands are good (eg you can hear them), screen is good (auto rotate function works well). You can get some good car mounts from brodit that allow you to mount the phone in the car either in landscape or portrait mode.

Only thing I will say is get a charge charger! The GPS eats the battery!

The phone is easy to use, keyboard is good, data connections seem fast. It's been very reliable (had to soft reset it twice both times due to TomTom in the last 3 months)

Really pleased with it but it may be up for sale in the New Year as I start a new job which I think comes with a blackberry which means I don't need a smart phone as a personal phone.

Edited by pmanson on Thursday 20th December 17:26

[cyberface]

IMO the iPhone isn't a smartphone in normal form. And I'm posting from one right now.

As an O2-locked phone, it's simply a neat phone and iPod combo.

Mine is a smartphone but it's hacked to buggery and is a full-on OS X computer with a distinctly average phone bolted on.

As long as Apple continue attempting to follow Sony's footsteps into the abyss, Apple's products' full potential will only be realized by hackers...

[VEX]

cyberface said:

Mine is a smartphone but it's hacked to buggery and is a full-on OS X computer with a distinctly average phone bolted on.

Now that would be tempting, and unlocked onto my Orange account

[cyberface]

VEX said:

cyberface said:

Mine is a smartphone but it's hacked to buggery and is a full-on OS X computer with a distinctly average phone bolted on.

Now that would be tempting, and unlocked onto my Orange account

well mine's vodafone and I'm posting from it now on the train. If you can find one with the old 3.09 bootloader then you can do the same trick - and Orange even support EDGE in some places IIRC

[tigger1]

Mr E said:

tigger1 said:

I have, and like, the nokia 6120 - a small symbian smartphone (possibly the smallest smartphone?)

I've got a number of 6120's and while they're fine handsets (and very cheap) they don't really class as a smartphone in my eyes.

Not a smart phone why? Because it's small?

[clonmult]

VEX said:

cyberface said:

Mine is a smartphone but it's hacked to buggery and is a full-on OS X computer with a distinctly average phone bolted on.

Now that would be tempting, and unlocked onto my Orange account

Although a heavily data oriented device like the iPhone on a network that charges an arm and a leg for data isn't a top idea. Unless you've somehow convinced Orange to not charge a thousand times more for data than the other networks (£3 per meg on Orange versus 1gig for £7.50 on T-Mob. Even Vodas 120meg is massively better. Oranges "unlimited" data plan only gives 30meg)

[Mr E]

tigger1 said:

Not a smart phone why? Because it's small?

Fairly limited in a number of ways - not that that's a bad thing. I think it's a great little handset.

[page3]

cyberface said:

VEX said:

cyberface said:

Mine is a smartphone but it's hacked to buggery and is a full-on OS X computer with a distinctly average phone bolted on.

Now that would be tempting, and unlocked onto my Orange account

well mine's vodafone and I'm posting from it now on the train. If you can find one with the old 3.09 bootloader then you can do the same trick - and Orange even support EDGE in some places IIRC

Agree, but there are some really good hackers in the Mac world

[tigger1]

Mr E said:

tigger1 said:

Not a smart phone why? Because it's small?

Fairly limited in a number of ways - not that that's a bad thing. I think it's a great little handset.

Furry muff <shrug> 's'a'phone, innit.

[Mr E]

tigger1 said:

Furry muff <shrug> 's'a'phone, innit.

fo'snizzle dwag.

[mft]

NS24 said:

I've an M600 (HTC eten I think) which is fantastic for txts & email, try making or receiving a call & it's extremely -s-l-o-w- to switch to phone mode, to dial, most incoming calls are dropped (as it's regularly in GPRS mode & can only do either GPRS or voice but not both).

There might be something wrong with your M600 (actually the HTC Prophet, BTW).

I've got one (ex-Orange, now unlcoked to Vodafone) and apart from slightly slow text entry, it's a great phone. The interface is fast and never crashes. Calls are great quality and I've never dropped one - the only criticism I have is that the speaker phone is too quiet. I've never had an issue with GPRS - the [G] icon is almost always present, and calls get through perfectly well. Oh, and a mate has one on Orange, and his is flawless too.

You could try updating it to WM6, which gives you a faster interface.

Civpilot said:

page3 said:

Totally disagree, but then I do own an iPhone The phone part is excellent. Clear, quick and easy to use. Visual voicemail is fantastic too.

So you disagree because your bias then?

Can you send an MMS message with your iphone?

Can you use video calling?

Can you send a standard SMS message to multiple recipients?

I suspect he disagrees because he owns one and likes it...

These 'issues' with the iPhone are only issues if you choose to make them thus. I've never made a single video call (have you?), I've never needed to send an SMS to multiple people, and although I've sent the odd MMS, I'd equally happily use the iPhone's email instead - which is data, so free, of course!

I just don't understand why people feel the need to make the iPhone such an issue - you don't get threads with people arguing because some random Nokia doesn't do video calls. The iPhone is just another phone; if it doesn't do stuff you want, then don't buy it.

[cyberface]

page3 said:

cyberface said:

VEX said:

cyberface said:

Mine is a smartphone but it's hacked to buggery and is a full-on OS X computer with a distinctly average phone bolted on.

Now that would be tempting, and unlocked onto my Orange account

well mine's vodafone and I'm posting from it now on the train. If you can find one with the old 3.09 bootloader then you can do the same trick - and Orange even support EDGE in some places IIRC

Agree, but there are some really good hackers in the Mac world

Well I'm no more than distinctly average... Are you saying that someone's got bootloader 4.06 cracked? First I've heard of it...

Hell, I'm still trying to get nmap compiled for the iPhone - those network tools would be very handy over wifi!