Any thoughts on the Android G1?
Added to this , you know exactly where you are going but run into a contruction zone that is gonna slow your drive by about 15 minutes.
So you whip out the iphone , call up maps and lo and behold , there is a side street that bypasses the contruction zone and slows you by no more than three minutes. So the sign had local traffic only, whipp dee do.
Happened to me today (friday) going down to the camera show.
Declan
As a general rule of thumb, everyone that has one of the upper-echelon phones is pretty happy with it. I know of a couple people that have the G1 and they like it. All of the phones mentioned (save the Samsung…I don’t know anything about it) do Google Maps, Internet, e-mail, and what have you. It comes down to the price, the network, and how you want those things displayed out and working for you.
Go and poke around with the phones at the store Fine a friend or a friend of a friend and have them putz around with the phones with you there. Either way, get in there and muck it up.
The Omnia has two internet browsers, is equipped with GPS (requires a subscription to a navigation service), Windows Mobile 6.1 with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and One Note, 5 megapixel camera (stills and video) with a flash (which can also be turned on as a flashlight), optical character recognition (take pics of business cards or documents and convert to text), plays all kinds of media, syncs to PC, FM radio receiver, has several touch keyboard layouts and can recognize handwriting, video editor, TV out viewer (watch your phone on your TV, haha). The screen rotates to landscape mode if you rotate the phone, and you don’t have to send it off for service for two weeks if you need a new battery.
I paid $129 with a three year contract.
Cool. Then it sounds like every phone mentioned in this thread can do what you’re looking for.
Very happy iPhone user. Definitely worth it.
Of course, when I bought mine there wasn’t much competition; now there is.
Go to the store and play with each phone. That’s the best way. You have to see these things in operation to really understand how cool they are.
I can’t say that enough. I have said here over and over how my old Treo beat the iPhone hands down in so many ways: it was much faster, the battery lasted longer, it had a physical keyboard, the synchronization was much better, etc. But I would never go back to it. You have to experience the iPhone to understand.
And I’m going to definitely check out the competition hands-on when it’s time to re-up. The field has changed in the time since iPhone appeared.
One more point: if you are a Mac user then it’s even better. The integration is great and always will be since Apple makes both devices.
Does it come with a corkscrew?
FYI, I finally broke down and bought the iPhone yesterday. According to the salesguy at the ATT store, you can get the battery in the iPhone changed at the Apple store while you wait. (I just hope that there’s nothing so compelling in the new version to make me regret not waiting.)
I’m very happy with my iPhone. In fact I’m posting from it right now. I didn’t pay full price for it though. As a long-time AT&T customer, I was eligible for a phone upgrade and was able to get a refurbished 16 GB 3G model for 149.99. The data plan is only $10 a month more than it was with my old phone. Even though the data plan is unlimited, I find that turning off the 3G and only using the wi-fi doubles my battery life. I use my PC’s wireless router when I’m at home and only use the 3G when I’m on the road.
There always is- that’s the Apple way. But don’t worry- what you have now is* all that*, as the kids would say.
Enjoy! Try not to tweak on the apps too much!