What smartphone do you have?

[trekkiedane]

Not sure this is the right thread for this sort of thing, but here it goes:

My portable device came with a state-of-the-art phone (it's a Nokia and you wouldn't expect anything less, right?), but since it's an internet device they didn't put MMS capability into it (the explanation was that if you had a computer you would use e-mail for that sort of thing).
Yesterday I took the time (took me about ½ an hour) to install and set up the app that remedies this (it was finally out of beta).
Today I've been trying to set up something called 'Knot' that (hopefully, eventually) will allow me to stream media content from my PC at home to my portable. Wow, I won't even need all the memory on the thing! -I can just access my stuff at home where ever I am! - Along with the remote control app for my torrent client this means I'll only have to go home every few weeks to reboot Windows!!! -think it's time I went Linux at home too

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't have a smartphone. They are, to me, unneeded *and* unaffordable.

 

[TheBrew]

Switching carriers is not an option for me, unfortunately.

What carrier are you on?

Sprint. So, I'm limited to CDMA phones.

Get an EVO, coming out June 4.

It is pure sex.

 

[JonathonWally]

Nexus One, I love it.

 

[STR]

As a side note, I've also used a Blackberry (Pearl 8100), iPhone (3G), Windows Mobile (touchscreen HTC Tilt, HTC Fuze and nontouch Motorola Q9h, and Samsung Blackjack (original)), Palm OS (Centro) and Symbian (Nokia E62 & E71) and while I didn't own one, the earlier Android builds on the HTC G1.

Android 2.x is by far the best of the operating systems, especially 2.2. iPhone would come second if I count OS4.0, otherwise it would be tied with Windows Mobile 6. Palm OS was great for its day, but was ancient long before the Centro. Blackberry is awful. Yeah, the push email is nice, the phones were usually good (signal reception/voice quality), but the UI is terrible. Symbian is almost as bad as BB OS, but without the redeeming value of push services, so it ranks at the bottom of modern smartphones.

I dont have a lot of experience with WebOS, it's easy to figure out and people seem to like it, but its app store is more spartan than the mismanaged Windows Marketplace.

My perspective is of multitasking power user, with emphasis on creation rather than consumption of content, and information display. Your needs, and therefore rankings. may vary.

 

[Sheep]

What carrier are you on?

Sprint. So, I'm limited to CDMA phones.

Get an EVO, coming out June 4.

It is pure sex.

That's what I'm doing first thing on June 4.

I'm currently using a Pre and love webOS, but I would love to see the OS on better hardware. The Pre isn't cutting it anymore and I say that as someone who generally likes the phone.

 

[BigFoot]

Nokia E51 running Symbian S60.

 

[TheBrew]

As a side note, I've also used a Blackberry (Pearl 8100), iPhone (3G), Windows Mobile (touchscreen HTC Tilt, HTC Fuze and nontouch Motorola Q9h, and Samsung Blackjack (original)), Palm OS (Centro) and Symbian (Nokia E62 & E71) and while I didn't own one, the earlier Android builds on the HTC G1.

Android 2.x is by far the best of the operating systems, especially 2.2. iPhone would come second if I count OS4.0, otherwise it would be tied with Windows Mobile 6. Palm OS was great for its day, but was ancient long before the Centro. Blackberry is awful. Yeah, the push email is nice, the phones were usually good (signal reception/voice quality), but the UI is terrible. Symbian is almost as bad as BB OS, but without the redeeming value of push services, so it ranks at the bottom of modern smartphones.

I dont have a lot of experience with WebOS, it's easy to figure out and people seem to like it, but its app store is more spartan than the mismanaged Windows Marketplace.

My perspective is of multitasking power user, with emphasis on creation rather than consumption of content, and information display. Your needs, and therefore rankings. may vary.

FWIW, Android does push email at least for GMail. I get it on my phone before it even shows up in the webclient.

 

[Dukat's Major]

I absolutely adore the Android platform.

 

[Dukat's Major]

As a side note, I've also used a Blackberry (Pearl 8100), iPhone (3G), Windows Mobile (touchscreen HTC Tilt, HTC Fuze and nontouch Motorola Q9h, and Samsung Blackjack (original)), Palm OS (Centro) and Symbian (Nokia E62 & E71) and while I didn't own one, the earlier Android builds on the HTC G1.

Android 2.x is by far the best of the operating systems, especially 2.2. iPhone would come second if I count OS4.0, otherwise it would be tied with Windows Mobile 6. Palm OS was great for its day, but was ancient long before the Centro. Blackberry is awful. Yeah, the push email is nice, the phones were usually good (signal reception/voice quality), but the UI is terrible. Symbian is almost as bad as BB OS, but without the redeeming value of push services, so it ranks at the bottom of modern smartphones.

I dont have a lot of experience with WebOS, it's easy to figure out and people seem to like it, but its app store is more spartan than the mismanaged Windows Marketplace.

My perspective is of multitasking power user, with emphasis on creation rather than consumption of content, and information display. Your needs, and therefore rankings. may vary.

FWIW, Android does push email at least for GMail. I get it on my phone before it even shows up in the webclient.

I have the same experience (I get my GMail on my phone before I do on the webclient).

 

[Robert Maxwell]

As a side note, I've also used a Blackberry (Pearl 8100), iPhone (3G), Windows Mobile (touchscreen HTC Tilt, HTC Fuze and nontouch Motorola Q9h, and Samsung Blackjack (original)), Palm OS (Centro) and Symbian (Nokia E62 & E71) and while I didn't own one, the earlier Android builds on the HTC G1.

Android 2.x is by far the best of the operating systems, especially 2.2. iPhone would come second if I count OS4.0, otherwise it would be tied with Windows Mobile 6. Palm OS was great for its day, but was ancient long before the Centro. Blackberry is awful. Yeah, the push email is nice, the phones were usually good (signal reception/voice quality), but the UI is terrible. Symbian is almost as bad as BB OS, but without the redeeming value of push services, so it ranks at the bottom of modern smartphones.

I dont have a lot of experience with WebOS, it's easy to figure out and people seem to like it, but its app store is more spartan than the mismanaged Windows Marketplace.

My perspective is of multitasking power user, with emphasis on creation rather than consumption of content, and information display. Your needs, and therefore rankings. may vary.

FWIW, Android does push email at least for GMail. I get it on my phone before it even shows up in the webclient.

I have the same experience (I get my GMail on my phone before I do on the webclient).

What does that do for battery life? I know I have to keep my email checking on a schedule on my Centro, because it just zaps the battery if I let it push emails. I have both my GMail and my work account on it, so I get quite a bit of email--maybe 100 a day. On a busy day, my battery gets absolutely killed because of the constant pushing. So, I've throttled it back to only check every hour or so.

 

[TheBrew]

Unless I'm messing with my phone a lot, it seems to last all day. At ~80% right now after 6 hours of use.

 

[Arrqh]

If I don't do heavy usage, my Nexus can last about two days without recharging. I'm using an app that limits data usage for everything on the phone to 1 minute every 15 minutes when the screen is turned off and also keeps the whole thing off during the night, which helps. The app is a bit flaky though at the moment unfortunately, especially when the phone goes on the charger.

I don't use it for work email though, just personal. So there's a lot less of it!

 

[STR]

FWIW, Android does push email at least for GMail. I get it on my phone before it even shows up in the webclient.

I have the same experience (I get my GMail on my phone before I do on the webclient).

What does that do for battery life? I know I have to keep my email checking on a schedule on my Centro, because it just zaps the battery if I let it push emails. I have both my GMail and my work account on it, so I get quite a bit of email--maybe 100 a day. On a busy day, my battery gets absolutely killed because of the constant pushing. So, I've throttled it back to only check every hour or so.

Push will suck more battery than pulling email every hour, but if implemented correctly, will use less battery than pulling every 15 minutes. Unless you get 100 emails an hour, in which case push will always use more battery since the data session is always on.

Blackberry is so far unique in that it uses proprietary servers to enable push email for just about any and every email on the planet. If your email provider has POP3 or IMAP access, you can get it pushed real-time to your Blackberry.

I think it's anal to need instant email all the time, but just because I don't doesn't mean other people don't. It's also a very secure system, which is why it's used by many companies.

 

[Brent]

I have had a Blackberry Bold (9000) for 2 years now, best Smartphone I've ever used, loved it.

My contract is up for an upgrade this June, and I think I want to try out the brand new iPhone that is coming out. The one thing I'm not too happy about is the lack of Flash on the iPhone, but oh well, I want to try the new phone. I've loved my Blackberry for the past 2 years, I'm a gadget geek and I like to try new gadgets. I'll keep my Blackberry and can always go back to it if I don't like the iPhone.

 

[The Doctor]

I've got an 8GB 1st gen iPhone and I'm eagerly awaiting the new model.

 

[Nick Ryder]

Droid Eris on Verizon - got it mainly to replace my mom's office phone and internet - considering I can tether it to her computer if she needs to get online, but 90 % of time she's at home and uses the home net anyway. So really the phone is basically in my pocket most of the time LOL at least until I get her office number switched over to it. But still it'll probably be our "shared" smart phone LOL

I do merchandising and its really handy for entering my call reports, or bringing up sales info or just checking prices. Plus the fact that it handles the calender feature that made me carry a PDA with me just gravy. I still have an HP PocketPC (no phone just PDA) but since we got the Droid Eris, it sits unused. Although probably will get a bit more use once my ma uses the Eris more. Can really only afford one at the moment. $74 a month still isn't too horrible, but I'm already paying for that, the home Cable/Net/Phone bill, plus throwing a few bucks here and there into the prepaid phones we used so we can keep the numbers active.

But I love the Android OS - it is probably the best OS out there in terms of flexibility and the fact that the Android Market has hundreds of free apps - granted not all are great - but still. You can find pretty much all you really want in a mobile app. I do wish it had more games like the iPhone, but... I find that I really don't want to use it for a gaming platform due to not really having a whole lot of time to game on it. If I wanted to play a game, I'll fire up my Game Boy and if I'm home, I'll play my Playstation or on my laptop.

 

[JonathonWally]

. I do wish it had more games like the iPhone, but... I find that I really don't want to use it for a gaming platform due to not really having a whole lot of time to game on it. If I wanted to play a game, I'll fire up my Game Boy and if I'm home, I'll play my Playstation or on my laptop.

It's got SNES and Genesis emulators available.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

. I do wish it had more games like the iPhone, but... I find that I really don't want to use it for a gaming platform due to not really having a whole lot of time to game on it. If I wanted to play a game, I'll fire up my Game Boy and if I'm home, I'll play my Playstation or on my laptop.

It's got SNES and Genesis emulators available.

See, that's the kind of stuff that's going to get me to buy an Android.

 

[Dukat's Major]

FWIW, Android does push email at least for GMail. I get it on my phone before it even shows up in the webclient.

I have the same experience (I get my GMail on my phone before I do on the webclient).

What does that do for battery life? I know I have to keep my email checking on a schedule on my Centro, because it just zaps the battery if I let it push emails. I have both my GMail and my work account on it, so I get quite a bit of email--maybe 100 a day. On a busy day, my battery gets absolutely killed because of the constant pushing. So, I've throttled it back to only check every hour or so.

My battery life is excellent. If all I did was have it push email all day (and GMail chats), the battery would last a good 2 - 3 days before going kaput. And then of course on the Droid OS you can kill applications that are running in parallel if you don't want them eating up your battery (using a free app). This helps extend the battery life as well.