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Smartphone Shootout

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hit-me-with-your-best-shot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek's David DeJean makes the mistake of trying to compare the experience of Web surfing on a BlackBerry, Palm, and HTC smartphones to the experience on the iPhone. According to the DeJean, the three don't come close, but it's very interesting to read about the pros and cons of what can (and can't) be done with current mobile hardware and software."

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  1. Nokia E70 by Frankie70 · · Score: 4, Informative

    What about the NokiaE70 (this
    links to Maddox's comparison between E70 & IPhone.

    1. Re:Nokia E70 by weave · · Score: 4, Informative

      I have a Nokia N95 -- I was wondering why they avoided any phones running the latest S60 series browser too.

  2. Re:how connected do we have to be? by sholden · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-1100-Prepaid-Phone-Tra cfone/dp/B000BF4406
    http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-1600-Phone-Unlocked/dp /B000IEBSXG

  3. What about the nokia n800? by espergreen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not strictly a phone, but the nokia n800 has the best portable web I have experienced. 800x480 resolution combined with Opera works great for everything, including AJAX applications such as gmail.

  4. Re:how connected do we have to be? by thedbp · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm willing to bet you've never used an iPhone day to day for any signifcant amount of time.

    I've had mine for a few weeks now. I use it for movies, music, my primary camera, and it is also my primary Internet connection because I have moral objections to giving comcast money. It is, of course my only phone as well.

    I've never even come close to draining the battery in a single day, even using it to browse for hours while listening to music, or streaming h264 video over wifi, using it as a phone, etc.

    Your claims are based entrely on uninformed opinion, and NOT any sort of experience or fact.

    Also, the browsing experience is perfectly fine. The ability to easily and autmatically zoom to content negates the claim of screen real estate. Everything can be as large or as small as you like.

    In short, you are a well spoken troll, but a troll nonetheless.

  5. Nokia e61i by JosefAssad · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not sure why the Nokia e61i was left out. I've never been a big cell phone freak; I moved up to an e61i after some twelve years of el cheapo nokias. QWERTY, excellent battery life, briliant screen (even in direct sunlight), wifi, superb call quality, superb speakerphone, the web browsing is a dream (has this handy zoom out feature, and when you scroll for a long time it zooms out also; totally usable). Dammit, it even has a 2 mp camera, blackberry software (though I don't use bb) and... here's the cracker, PYTHON! Doesn't get much more smart phone than that.

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