I am planning to buy a new touchscreen mobile. Which mobile is good according to you?
18  3073  RedSon 5,000
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iPhone or G1
G1 won't be good for a while, stick with the iPhone. Or if you want the windows mobile approach, HTC Touch Dual is a neat little unit
Niheel 2,456
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iPhone: intuitive and very responsive interface and feature rich
I've played with the G1, HTC, and new Blackberry.
The sad thing is because of the patent issues, i don't know if any of the other hardware providers will be able to duplicate the iphone's usability.
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I didn't like any of the touch's i've tried. I have fat fingers and they don't work well with touch screens.
I've got my eye on the samsung omnia, but its been disapointing and sluggish when I used verizon's version of it.
I recently got an AT&T Tilt (HTC 8925) mainly for the price ($99 referb.) I was looking at the Pantech Duo as well. I liked the fact the Pantech has separate slide out keyboard and numberpad, but the screen on that was just too small for me.
I like the Tilt, although in hindsight, I'm wishing I'd gotten something with a bit larger screen. I don't text, so the keyboard, which was a selling point at the time, is not really as good a feature as I'd thought.
The iPhone is nice, but no 3G in my podunk little neck of the woods. Plus, I don't like the idea of only screen keys. I like a couple of buttons on the bottom and sides.
My ideal smartphone would have the screen size of the iPhone, the front and side buttons of the Tilt and the slide out numberpad of the Pantech Duo. Oh.. It'd run OpenMoko Linux as well.
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That sounds a lot like the G1
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Hmmm I think I'm going to have to check out the G1. I don't think I've seen it for sale though. I'm also in the market for a new phone but have no plan on getting the iPhone because A: its way too expensive for a data plan in Canada; and B: I have an iTouch that I'm perfectly happy with.
I have a feeling the G1 is going to be too much for what I need...but I'm planning on doing some mobile development in the near future so I have to keep an open mind as to which phone I want to get....and I wouldn't mind getting back into Java for a bit.
Plater 7,872
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I think the G1 is only available through TMobile directly (I am sure you can buy an "unlocked" one and find a way to get some other cell service to work on it)
I don't like the iPhone at all. I like devices which I can play around with as much as possible. I hate having to go to the apple store for every little thing. I don't like the idea of having to get a whole new operating system (and hardware => Mac) Just so I can write a program that runs on my device.
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