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[Selena]

Hey guys

I need a new phone and am useless when it comes to choosing them. I use the internet a lot on my phone and also camera is important.

I like the HTC HD7 and the HTC Desire HD. Nokia N8 is also very nice but would appreciate some advice on what you think I should go for.

Thanks

[S1lent]

Nokia N8 of course!

[Selena]

Nokia N8 of course!

Reason?

[fofo]

Nokia is overrated these days. Their platform, Symbian, can't keep up with IoS or Android. They recently closed a partnership with Microsoft, so future nokia's will use win7 mobile. Until then, don't buy Nokia. And even then, they'll run windows, so don't buy then also. HTC is ok but can't even compare with IoS. I recommend the Iphone 4 if you can afford it. If not, smth with Android platform. Samsung Galaxy S maybe.

[Selena]

Nokia is overrated these days. Their platform, Symbian, can't keep up with IoS or Android. They recently closed a partnership with Microsoft, so future nokia's will use win7 mobile. Until then, don't buy Nokia. And even then, they'll run windows, so don't buy then also. HTC is ok but can't even compare with IoS. I recommend the Iphone 4 if you can afford it. If not, smth with Android platform. Samsung Galaxy S maybe.

Thanks fofo, yeah I have never really been a fan of symbian. I hear it lags a bit and the web browser is a bit slow. Also, how strong is the iphone 4? I dont want to spend £600 and find out that when it is dropped it will not work again and is the web browsing experience close to that of a computers?

[fofo]

That's why you have phone insurance. Iphone 4 is the best smartphone out there.

[FakFeijs]

i have N8 and its good enough for me.. if i want to play games and go to internet, i use my Pc for that

[TupaC]

Hey guys

I need a new phone and am useless when it comes to choosing them. I use the internet a lot on my phone and also camera is important.

I like the HTC HD7 and the HTC Desire HD. Nokia N8 is also very nice but would appreciate some advice on what you think I should go for.

Thanks

Lets see a picture of u, fat bitch.

[Selena]

Hey guys

I need a new phone and am useless when it comes to choosing them. I use the internet a lot on my phone and also camera is important.

I like the HTC HD7 and the HTC Desire HD. Nokia N8 is also very nice but would appreciate some advice on what you think I should go for.

Thanks

Lets see a picture of u, fat bitch.

Wow let me guess you are a little 13 year old boy who sits at home watching porn every weekend because you are actually a sick fucked up boy and no girl would touch you. Wow sad life you live. Enjoy your weekend little one... and remember... your bedtime is soon.

[fofo]

Oh gosh, you don't know Tupac. Tupac is the oldest retard on setti. He's been entertaining us since 2006 ! But don't worry, a few smart lines are way over his iq level, so you should be fine bashing him.

[Perplexer]

Make sure you buy a phone with features that YOU need and want. Don't buy a phone which can run colorful games like Angry Birds just because every kid nowdays plays that. Buy a phone which has the features which YOU want to have in your everyday life.

I bought myself a new mobile phone for new year. I spent quite some time comparing phones and features. I will try to remember them all and list them.

This is what is important for me:

- GPS (navigation)
- front facing camera
- quality sound recording
- voice call recording
- photo camera with LED and autofocus
- video camera
- applications (PDF reader)
- WLAN

There are other things also but they are almost standard now on all decent phones anyway:
- internet access
- big (touch) screen
- FM radio / MP3 player
- video player

My brother has a HTC Desire and a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic so I played with those before I bought anything. All HTC phones lack front facing camera so that meant they were all out of the picture. Why front facing camera ? Not because I video-call but because I want to use my phone as a mirror when I'm outside (yes, I think of everything).

Samsung Galaxy S doesn't have a LED flash. You can use that LED as a flashlight which is awesome! A phone MUST have a LED flash! So Samsung was out of the picture also. The new Galaxy S II or the new LG phone may be better there.

Android phones lack side (stereo) speakers. They have one single speaker on the BACK side of the phone and that is terrible. If you want to put the voice-call conversation to the back speaker you won't hear anything. Same with music.

Audio recording with Android phones sucks also. They record in *.amr instead of *.mp3 (like Nokia 5800 XpressMusic). The difference is amazing. For me, using the phone as a dictaphone is important. You may say that there must be an app for Android which allows recording in MP3, but I didn't find any.

Then there's voice-call recording. With Nokia 5800 XpressMusic I could do that with a press of a button, with HTC / Android I couldn't do it at all. Again there may be an app for that but nobody seems to have a straight answer for that one either.

Good thing with Android phones is screen size and resolution and their popularity and availability of applications and games which will surely grow. And the photo camera of HTC Desire was much more brilliant that that of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic but that may be because it was 5MP vs 3.2MP. Autofocus is important! There are some phones which still lack that. Without it you can't take a picture of a piece of paper on the table, like a document, a magazine page, a page from your school notebook or school exam, price tag for an item in a shop, etc. When you buy a phone, make sure it has an autofocus lens.

Nokia has Ovi Maps which seem to be a better choice for Europeans at this moment, and they're free.

WLAN is a MUST if you have a home wireless network which is in itself a MUST, so you can take your phone to the toilet and watch YouTube while you're taking a dump. I love it !!

A phone which supports Internet access and certificate importing is also very nice. I need that to access my bank accounts on-line when I'm on the move. That's the best. And then there are applications so you can take your PDFs and Office documents. I wanted a PDF reader so I could open PDFs which I put on the phone from my PC. And that PDF contains passwords and is password encrypted. Sooner or later you're gonna need passwords on your phone to access web pages, email accounts etc, and having those passwords in a TXT file isn't cool if your phone gets lost or stolen. If you don't need passwords on your phone because you use one and the same password for everything and you can remember it then there's no help for you anyway.

I didn't go much into Windows phones cause they seem to be least popular but that didn't bother me. I would actually prefer Windows. What bothered me is a post I read somewhere that Windows phones don't allow you to transfer files onto your phone like we're used to, via USB. Apparently you have to e-mail a file to your phone to get it or you have to download it via the web. This may be fixed in the future but that was enough to put me off Windows for the time being.

Nokia had more features which I liked than Android phones. For example Nokia N8 is nice but it has a slightly smaller size screen as HTC Desire and lower resolution. It has a xenon flash so I'm not sure if that can be used as a flashlight (maybe somone can confirm?). It has a very good photo and video camera (but I think that 720p video recording quality is better on Samsung Galaxy S). Anyway that wasn't important for me. 5MP camera and video is enough for me. N8 also has only 1 speaker on the BACK side which is not good. Voice navigation would probably sound very bad. One very cool thing in Nokia N8 is USB-OTG (USB On The Go) support. No other phone has that at the moment. USB-OTG allows you to connect a USB key or other USB supporting device to N8 and read files off it. With other phones you can only connect them to a computer. Where is this useful ? For example if you are on a trip or on holiday and you take some professional photos with your DSLR digital camera and you want to send them to someone or upload them to the Internet. If you're lying on the beach and don't have a laptop or an Internet connection that will be hard. You can't put a SD card from camera into your micro-SD phone. Some phones don't even have card slots. You could use a micro-SD card with an adapter in your camera but those probably can't handle high speeds required by some cameras. With USB-OTG you can connect the camera to N8, transfer the pictures over and upload them or send them out via MMS. Well, the camera itself would probably need to support the "mass storage mode" but I'm not sure cause I never tested it. A decent digital camera should, so you can easily transfer files to a computer, at least. And with that said I need to say this ... DAMN YOU NIKON !

Ok. So. Nokia N8 seemed overpriced for what I needed so I bought myself a Nokia X6, a successor to Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. (Haha I made you read all of the above before I told you what I bought). I like it a lot. The only things that bother me is that it doesn't charge over USB port (it is used for data transfer only) and it doesn't support USB-OTG. It doesn't support multi-touch either but that doesn't bother me. All in all, not really critical things. I think that it has what I really need. I still didn't have time to check the phone in it's entirety (like, go through the manual). I just set up the basics. So I will probably discover more stuff in the days to come. Hopefully no negative things.

So you see, it's all about what YOU want. Make yourself a list of thigs you want and need in a phone then go to http://www.gsmarena.com and make some comparisons and then buy yourself a good phone (or as good as you can ... you obviously won't get a perfect fit anyway).

[Selena]

Wow Perp... ever think of running a review website? Thanks, made things much more clear. I have put together a list of all the things I want my phone to have.

1. GPS navigation is a must have! Nothing worse than driving around for 2 hours looking at a rubbish paper map.

2. Camera is really important and also a front facing camera for video calling.

3. High quality video recording is more of a fun thing than a must have.

4. Obviously WLAN is a no brainer.

5. Good music player, sound not the most important as I usually use headphones or my Ipod for that.

6. Big screen not too important (also my hands aren't that big so HTC is probably out of the question.)

Reading documents isn't too important but emailing is.

Games on the phone are the last things on my mind (got a pc) Also don't need a flashy phone. I'm not a girly girl so a pink phone is unimportant

Even though symbian have lag issues i'm still leaning mostly towards that.

EDIT: also another thing... I would prefer using qwerty, so a nice sized qwerty keypad is a bonus

[b00bs]

I prefer Windows + HTC, QWERTY keyboard is important too.

...What bothered me is a post I read somewhere that Windows phones don't allow you to transfer files onto your phone like we're used to, via USB. Apparently you have to e-mail a file to your phone to get it or you have to download it via the web...

Try WM5torage
http://android.modac...s&showfile=1702

[Perplexer]

I forgot to mention ..... Nokia X6 has terrible earphones and it's sound isn't too good either. I compared it to 5 or more year old Creative Rhomba (MP3 player) and the difference was huge. Rhomba's earphones deliver such a bass that I couldn't believe it. Nokia earphones are pathetic little shit. When I plugged Rhomba earphones into Nokia X6 there was more bass but still not the same as Rhomba player. So it seems Nokia X6 itself cannot produce more bass, even with full equalizer open. And it is supposed to be a music oriented phone! It does have 2 speakers and they are on the side so I guess it could be worse. I can't imagine how other phones sound like. Anyway, sound reproduction through headphones is bad, that much I can say. Just something to consider.

If you want a physical keyboard then that will narrow down the choices quite a bit. I think Nokia N97 / N97 mini has that. Don't know about other brands.

[PHOENIX]

I have an Nokia N73 - 3 years old. enough for me

[FakFeijs]

Selena maybe Nokia N900 ?

[S1lent]

Nokia N8 of course!

Reason?

The camera, the screen and the OS. It is a little bit ugly though..but the green one and the blue are ok.
Android sucks symbian FTW!

Oh and don't forget to close the applications after running them.

Iphone 4 sucks. It is so expensive and iTunes doesnt let you to send a damn song! Don't listen to those who say that symbian is slow. iphone is for noobs and for idiots who want to show-off.

BUT..

In my opinion the best phone out there is HTC 7 trophy. The windows phone 7 OS is as fast as the ios 4. There are many phones with windows phone 7 OS (samsung, HTC and others..)



Btw i have a sony ericsson vivaz it's like nokia+sony ericsson...2 in 1

[fofo]

S1lent, you talk shit. Have you ever used an Iphone ? Everyone says the same at first view. Omg, it's so complicated and so on. And about symbian ? Are you joking me ? If you can't review yourself, go to some tech blogs and make an opinion there.

She says she wants fast internet access, good camera, high quality recording (iphone 4 records in hd and it's pretty much above any other phone with hd recording out there) high quality music player. That phone has them all. Yeah, it's expensive and you gotta buy everything from itunes but you get used to that.

If not Selena, get a Blackberry, it's less expensive but expect it to crash anytime.

And please remember, NOKIA IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE. They keep selling now out of inertia, people got used to them. If Nokia were to launch their phones now, and not 20 years ago, they wouldn't stand a chance. Maybe it's because they make them in Romania now, lol.

[Dr.Pope]

Hey Selena, I don't have time to read all the posts to see if this is mentioned. BUT when I was home in the US, I had a BlackBerry Touch. It had everything you could ask for. Internet anywhere, awesome gps, perfect camera, video functions also. I loved it. Unfortunately I couldn't financially keep it when I came to Romania for school. But look into it, trust me that phone was amazing. I almost miss it more than my sister!!


Edit: Link to the phone
http://us.blackberry...blackberrytour/

[Gringo13]

You went to Romania cos of school?? You must be crazy, there are like a gazillion other better options.