I have a samsung SCH-i600 smartphone, and as many of you guys have said, PDA's are a jack of all trades, master of none, but pound for pound vs an iPod, i'd rather have my phone.
Granted the web broswer is sub-par at best, and it's not the greatest phone i've ever had (but also far from the worst) and its storage capacity is somewhat limited (the phone has like 8mb internal memory, but it does have an SD slot) however, I wish i knew why this phone was discontinued, as it's one of the few "smartphones" that's also a flip phone, and since to me, that's it's primary function, as a phone, I love it.
It's not as annoying to try and use like a treo or any of the other "full size" i guess you'd have to say, pda phones, and the sacrifice of some pda functionality i would actually does suck, but overall, it does everything i use it for: make phone calls, play music, RARE web browsing (usually enough to get my isp's phone number so i can rip someone a new one), has decent battery life, and unlike ALOT of smart phones i've seen, the battery is changeable. Keeping a fully charged "slim line" spare in my pocked and the extended life on the phone, its great.
My iPod does little more than sit in my car plugged into my 12 volt inverter and my cassette deck for music. and that's only because I'm too lazy to hook my phone into it.
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I have a samsung SCH-i600 smartphone, and as many of you guys have said, PDA's are a jack of all trades, master of none, but pound for pound vs an iPod, i'd rather have my phone.
Granted the web broswer is sub-par at best, and it's not the greatest phone i've ever had (but also far from the worst) and its storage capacity is somewhat limited (the phone has like 8mb internal memory, but it does have an SD slot) however, I wish i knew why this phone was discontinued, as it's one of the few "smartphones" that's also a flip phone, and since to me, that's it's primary function, as a phone, I love it.
It's not as annoying to try and use like a treo or any of the other "full size" i guess you'd have to say, pda phones, and the sacrifice of some pda functionality i would actually does suck, but overall, it does everything i use it for: make phone calls, play music, RARE web browsing (usually enough to get my isp's phone number so i can rip someone a new one), has decent battery life, and unlike ALOT of smart phones i've seen, the battery is changeable. Keeping a fully charged "slim line" spare in my pocked and the extended life on the phone, its great.
My iPod does little more than sit in my car plugged into my 12 volt inverter and my cassette deck for music. and that's only because I'm too lazy to hook my phone into it.