What smartphone do you use?

[Methos]

I'm simply curious here to see what sort of percentage we have technology wise...

I'm thinking there's a lot of Android users here, from general discussion i've seen around the threads... just wondering what other phones people are using and what style of OS they're running...

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[YellowSubmarine]

Can't vote cause Maemo or Nokia aren't on the list.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

iPhone 4S

 

[Methos]

damnit, forgot to put 'other' on the list...

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[Tom Hendricks]

I'm currently using an iPhone 4, didn't upgrade to the 4s when it was released. We trying to stay on the two year plan, new phone every two years. So we're holding out hopefully for the iPhone 5 and the unicorns it brings.

 

[Timby]

Motorola Droid RAZR, running Android 2.3 because Motorola is a dick when it comes to OTA OS updates.

Lovely phone, but the battery life huffs dong. All of the dong.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I like my iPhone very much but I still haven't used Siri yet.

 

[Sheep]

For most of the past 2 years, HTC Evo 4G with various custom Gingerbread ROMs.

For the past 10 days, Samsung Galaxy Nexus with ICS. It's a MASSIVE improvement in every way.

 

[MacLeod]

Can't vote Nokia N series isn't on the list.

 

[tighr]

Been running a GSM Galaxy Nexus since January. I have it rooted and running a custom rom, which kinda takes all the fun out of the Google OTA updates but at the same time I get features immediately as they're developed.

Ice Cream sandwich is such an improvement over Gingerbread that it isn't even funny.

 

[RAMA]

Apparently Nokia is in big trouble, posting huge losses again last year. I don't think it'll be a player in the next few years.

I am still using my Evo Shift, 800 mhz single chip, upgraded battery and storage, but I'm switching carriers soon and may go with the HTC One S..http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-s/#specs. 1.5Ghz dual core.

 

[scotpens]

I don’t use a smartphone. I have a ten-year-old Nokia dumbphone. It doesn’t have a touchscreen. I can’t text with it. I can’t use it to play audio or visual media. I can’t take pictures or video or access the internet with it. And I don’t care.

When I was growing up, only rich people had mobile phones. And they sounded like you were talking to someone in a submarine. I’m still amazed that I can carry my phone around in my pocket.

 

[RAMA]

I don’t use a smartphone. I have a ten-year-old Nokia dumbphone. It doesn’t have a touchscreen. I can’t text with it. I can’t use it to play audio or visual media. I can’t take pictures or video or access the internet with it. And I don’t care.

When I was growing up, only rich people had mobile phones. And they sounded like you were talking to someone in a submarine. I’m still amazed that I can carry my phone around in my pocket.

I find my phone(s) indispensable both at work and otherwise, I use apps for weather, camera-video, music, gps/maps, calorie burning, cardio/workouts, on the fly sports info and of course communication. I'm always shocked when I see people with old style flip phones!

Smartphones have other benefits:

Economic growth is a form of deflation. If the cost of, say, computing power goes down, then the users of computing power acquire more of it for less—and thus attain a higher standard of living. One thing that makes such deflation possible is dematerialization, the reduction in the quantity of stuff needed to produce a product. An iPhone, for example, weighs 1/100th and costs 1/10th as much as an Osborne Executive computer did in 1982, but it has 150 times the processing speed and 100,000 times the memory.
Dematerialization is occurring with all sorts of products. Banking has shrunk to a handful of electrons moving on a cellphone, as have maps, encyclopedias, cameras, books, card games, music, records and letters — none of which now need to occupy physical space of their own.

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http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/tag/xprize/

 

[Chaos Descending]

Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket, rooted, running an Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) based custom ROM.

 

[Shurik]

Samsung Galaxy SII, running on Android 2.3.something.

 

[Geckothan]

"Smart" phones: for when your brain just can't quite get the job done.

 

[JoeZhang]

Apparently Nokia is in big trouble, posting huge losses again last year. I don't think it'll be a player in the next few years.

Nokia will not exist in a few years, it will be bought out by one of the Chinese players - once you go down in the mobile sector and make a quarterly loss you never come back.

 

[MacLeod]

I don't see the need to rush out to buy the latest smart phone, my current phone is about 2.5 years old. My previous phone was about 6 years old when I replaced it.

 

[Emher]

Um...none. I use a HTC Hero. Looking into getting it replaced though, it's getting on. The screen is not nearly accurate enough for me to play "Draw Something" properly.

 

[oberth127]

iPhone 4. Been using iPhones for a few years, love 'em.