Smartphones - thoughts?

Vanilla Skunk · August 25, 2010, 07:07:15 PM

I've noticed any newer E-Series nokia also has a light sensor... and at sunlight levels, it actualy turns the backlight off, since it's not useful with the type of display.

Ravenwood · September 05, 2010, 05:27:12 AM

I got a used G1 off Ebay for not too much. It's rooted and runs pretty well.

Android seems to be the way to go these days.

Vanilla Skunk · September 10, 2010, 11:45:26 AM

How readable is it in direct sunlight?

Acco · September 10, 2010, 06:58:58 PM

G1s aren't that good in direct sunlight. But I'd choose the phone if given a choice. HW keyboard is useful.

Vanilla Skunk · September 29, 2010, 11:38:24 AM

That's what I thought.

The biggest problem I have with my phone these days is sunlight readability.

With Samsung Anything, you have to remove the tinted faceplate from the display to read it in the sun.

I'd rather buy something that can simply be read in the sun without physical modification since I spend so much time in the sunlight. A smartphone is useless when you can't read the screen.

Vanilla Skunk · October 13, 2010, 11:33:50 AM

Speaking of, I just picked up an Acer Liquid E.

Though I am not a fan of the company whatsoever, the phone was free. And so far I'm impressed.

Other than the Rogers SMS time glitch, this phone is flawless. The screen can even be read in the sun because they took it easy on the screen tint. Camera has a focus and dual stage shutter button even. All it's missing is a camera flash, and a vid conference cam.

Silvermink · October 18, 2010, 02:12:35 PM

Quote from: Felix McKline on October 13, 2010, 11:33:50 AM
Speaking of, I just picked up an Acer Liquid E.

Though I am not a fan of the company whatsoever, the phone was free. And so far I'm impressed.

Other than the Rogers SMS time glitch, this phone is flawless. The screen can even be read in the sun because they took it easy on the screen tint. Camera has a focus and dual stage shutter button even. All it's missing is a camera flash, and a vid conference cam.

Loial has a Liquid E that he seems to be pretty happy with, too.

Vanilla Skunk · October 25, 2010, 11:34:18 AM

Yeah I know, he wouldn't shut up about it. lol

OberonSnowcat · January 20, 2011, 02:58:46 PM

Well I made the jump and switched from BB to Android... a HTC Desire Z... and I love it so far... Great screen, nice camera and all of the goodness of Android 2.2... looking forwards to 2.3... when the ROM becomes available. O0

Silvermink · January 20, 2011, 03:08:11 PM

I quite like the look of the Desire Z myself. I'll probably end up picking up a dual-core Android phone within 3 to 6 months, though I don't really know what it'll be so far. I really like the look of the Motorola Atrix, but have heard that Moto sucks about updating on a timely basis and they also tend to lock their phones down more than I'm comfortable with.

What I'd really like to see is a Google dual-core phone, for openness and ease of updating. I like the look of the Google Nexus S except for a. no physical keyboard option and b. 16GB of non-expandable storage space (really, Google?), given I already have 20GB of stuff on my iPhone and VBR MP3s are going to take up more space than the AACs I'm using currently.

The Dell Streak is also an interesting device, but Rogers has been dicking around with the 2.2 update for ages now. You can apparently root it and grab the update directly from Dell, but I don't feel like you should have to.

Acco · January 20, 2011, 05:43:12 PM

Rogers cripples its phones just because it can it seems.

drewdle · April 28, 2011, 11:47:25 PM

Quote from: Accophox on January 20, 2011, 05:43:12 PM
Rogers cripples its phones just because it can it seems.

Back in the day, Telus did that too. I remember having a Motorola RAZR on Telus, and my friend had the same phone but on Rogers. I had a better camera on mine, but he could assign MP3s as ringtones, where there was absolutely no way in software to do that with mine; I had to buy ringtones if I wanted different ones. Buggers.

I saw my old response as "drewdle" on here before, and I laughed, because now I've become the absolute opposite. I only recently broke down and signed up for a BlackBerry Bold 9870, but I have to say it's awesome. BB6 is much better software than the older variants, and being connected is actually pretty damn useful sometimes. Mine's on Bell, and they don't appear to have locked out anything. GPS, tethering, MP3 ringtones (oh yeah 2006!!), etc; it all seems to work.

Also, someone else mentioned this about the Nokia N1, and it applies just as much to BlackBerry sets too: hardware keyboards ROCK. :)