My cell phone?
| Is a fully capable pocket computer | |
| Can perform basic email and internet functions | |
| Plays movies and music | |
| Sports a camera | |
| Does nothing special | |
| No brain cancer for me! |
| Is a fully capable pocket computer | |
| Can perform basic email and internet functions | |
| Plays movies and music | |
| Sports a camera | |
| Does nothing special | |
| No brain cancer for me! |
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iPhone vs Blackberry vs Windows Mobile by VnutZ
My phone’s fanciest feature is "speakerphone" although my Verizon contract is up and ready for an upgrade. Any recommendations between the capabilities of the three different breeds of phone?
RE: iPhone vs Blackberry vs Windows Mobile by Brandon
All three of the phones you listed are probably supported, but my most coveted phone feature is the ability to sync with my iMac using iSync via Bluetooth.
RE: iPhone vs Blackberry vs Windows Mobile by NastyPrincess
What phone supported that natively? I’ve seen a necessity to use either PocketMac Pro or the Missing Sync in order to make most devices synchronize with OS X.
RE: iPhone vs Blackberry vs Windows Mobile by Brandon
My Motorola Razr (included in the list of supported phones on the website to which I linked above) synced using iSync without problems.
RE: iPhone vs Blackberry vs Windows Mobile by Xtremegene
I wouldn’t recommend a Blackberry unless you were going to use their email service. Other than that, I can’t say much cause I’ve never had one. :P
iPhone is nice, I will admit, especially if you don’t want to carry around other devices for multimedia. However, as you’re with Verizon, you’d have to switch over to a new contract with AT&T for it (though I suppose you would need to do so even if you were a current AT&T customer). Lowered price definitely is a plus though- it’s more in line with other ‘smartphones’ out there. Oh, and assuming you for some reason would want to go to town with its internet features, I hope you’re within a WiFi hotspot’s range, as EDGE seems to be verrrry slow in loading real (non-WAP) webpages. I’ve played some with it at a store, but don’t own one ($$ + some more $$ = x_x)
Windows Mobile is where I personally have the most experience, though that’s with the non-phone side of it. I even got an older Pocket PC phone with WM for the heck of it, but in general I’m doubting to how suited the OS is for phone usage. If you also want its multimedia capabilities and large app. base, then I would say try it out; otherwise, I think there is a fair learning curve involved. Note that there are really two versions of WM out there running on phones: Professional (uses touch-screen) and Standard (no touch-screen). The non-touch screen version is a lot more intuitive simply because you only have a keypad to use, just like other basic phones.
I guess there’s no love for Palm OS Treoes :P, though it’s getting pretty old now as well…refresh after refresh. I would have sprung for one of those, but for whatever reason they have never came out with one that has built-in WiFi (and they also doesn’t support WiFi SDIO cards should you want to add it on). Eh.
RE: iPhone vs Blackberry vs Windows Mobile by Xtremegene
Almost forgot: I think that RIM (maker of Blackberries) has ported over their Enterprise Email service to Windows Mobile, if you needed to use their service but not necessarily their hardware. Not sure if it is ported to the iPhone, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened eventually.
My own phone is a Nokia (yay!) 6165i (boo, CDMA) with the ‘series 40’ user interface. It works well and quickly, which is why I want to stay with it for awhile longer. I have many other things to waste time on. :|
Something for Everyone by gnifyus
This Kosher Phone proves there is a gadget for everyone.