# Which cellphone should I buy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-should-i-buy/476458
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 9, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-should-i-buy/476458 "2008-12-09T22:13:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@ViktorWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ViktorWolf)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-should-i-buy/476458/1 "2008-12-09T22:13:19Z")
Hi there ya dopes! I have a question that my friends and family alike have failed to help me with.
You see, there I am about to get me a new cellphone, but I am torn between 3 different models;
Nokia M85
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia\_N\_series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N_series)
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xperia\_X1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xperia_X1)
And HTC Touch Pro.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC\_Touch\_Pro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Touch_Pro)
Since I like to send text-messages to my friends the Xperia and the Touch Pro look very tempting with their keyboards, but the M85 is equipped with a better camera and I expect to be taking quite a few pictures.
In addition to that I’d like to make use of some _Windows mobile_ based programs (Skype for example) which I can only access from the Xperia and the Touch Pro, sadly. On the other hand, the N85 is apparently a lot quicker to navigate the internet with.
Other than that, I like the overall design of the N85 a lot more than the other two phones.
And that’s about all I know about them.
So… Do anyone of you guys own or know someone who owns one of these phones? I would like to know if there is something about them that I should know that I don’t. The Devil is in the details you know.😛
Thanks for your time.🙂
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### Author:  [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-should-i-buy/476458/2 "2008-12-09T23:08:07Z")
I bought a nice phone with a 3 meg camera and an mp3 player. The mp3 player is not as versatile as a dedicated model and the camera sucks. You would be much better off to buy the worst digital camera on the market than to use your phone camera for anything meaningful. The lenses on camera phones are too small to be useful and the “flash” is more like a flashlight.
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### Author:  [@Unsquare\_Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unsquare_Dance)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-should-i-buy/476458/3 "2008-12-09T23:11:09Z")
I really like Sony Ericsson phones. Every one I’ve used in the long time I’ve had a cell phone has been pretty awesome.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-should-i-buy/476458/4 "2008-12-10T16:43:41Z")
Where will you use the phone? In my experience, Nokia is always better for getting signals in fringe reception areas.
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### Author:  [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-should-i-buy/476458/5 "2008-12-10T17:04:10Z")
I bought the AT&T version of the HTC Touch Pro about a month ago – it’s by far the best WM device I’ve ever used. The VGA screen really pops, and if you use the Touchflo 3D software, you can knock your iPhone-obsessed friends down a peg or two, and show them what a **real** phone can do. Highly recommended.
I’ve read quite a bit about the Xperia; last I heard, it wasn’t supposed to be on the market until January. It should be rather similar to the Touch Pro, as they’re both made by HTC.
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### Author:  [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cellphone-should-i-buy/476458/6 "2008-12-10T17:18:10Z")
I have a Nokia N82 and really dislike the keypad (my hands aren’t that big and I have a hard time using the keypad one-handed; in contrast, the N73 keypad was much preferable). Looking at the pictures of the N85, it looks similar. The N85 also has an LED flash rather than the preferable xenon flash, so pictures in dim light won’t be as nice (my N73 wanted to turn everything purple if scenes weren’t well-lit).
OTOH, I like the camera.