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ziggy
09-09-2009, 06:43 PM
I have managed to destroy yet another cell phone. I accidentally dropped this one in a cup of water :facepalm:

Can some of you phone gurus out there recommend a new phone for me? My service provider is Sprint, my now defunct phone was the Sprint Rumor . With the new phone I'd like to be able to surf the web easily and use it as an MP3 player if possible...

So what should it be iPhone, Palm Pre, Google Android, Blackberry or some other contraption???? Help a brotha out.
teej
09-09-2009, 09:08 PM
My fam has the Rumor's, they're pretty good.

I want an iPhone when I can get a new phone, but that's an expensive one and easily broken. IDK any of the other ones.
SWedd523
09-09-2009, 09:31 PM
I have managed to destroy yet another cell phone. I accidentally dropped this one in a cup of water :facepalm:

Can some of you phone gurus out there recommend a new phone for me? My service provider is Sprint, my now defunct phone was the Sprint Rumor . With the new phone I'd like to be able to surf the web easily and use it as an MP3 player if possible...

So what should it be iPhone, Palm Pre, Google Android, Blackberry or some other contraption???? Help a brotha out.
Ahhhh my specialty :biggrin:



I have the 32GB iPhone 3G S and I'll say with complete certainty that its the best phone currently on the American market for the price. I have 2500 songs on my phone and over 75 games and other applications, most for free.

It pushes email from multiple accounts to my phone, has all of my favorite websites bookmarked (as web apps) and has a pretty solid camera/video recorder. Custom alarms work wonders for my schedule as I have different wakeup times--MW, TTh, and F. It does typed/voice notes, has a compass, and a dedicated YouTube application.


The biggest drawback (for most people) is that the keyboard doesn't have tactile feedback. But that's just people that get frustrated easily. I've had many different phones from T9 input, QWERTY, and the iPhone. I type the fastest on the iPhone by a wide margin. And, if the portrait layout doesn't work, then you can rotate to landscape for bigger keys.

It seriously is, the most feature packed phone on the locked market.






As for Sprint, the proverbial "best" phone is the Palm Pre. A little backstory: When the iPhone was first being designed, Steve Jobs fought with lead designer Patrick McCutchan over whether or not the iPhone should have a tactile keyboard. Obviously, Steve won. So McCutchan took his design to Palm and created the Pre--which is basically HIS version of an iPhone.


For Verizon, you should go for the enV Touch. It has a touchscreen and a flip out QWERTY keyboard. It's definitely a worthy competitor. However, the Storm 2 is coming out soon and is supposed to be a huge improvement over the original. It is definitely a more "grown up" phone than the enV Touch so if you want Verizon then you should wait it out if you can.

As far as Blackberrys go, they're all basically the same phone loaded with different versions of the same UI so they're all a wash. I'd be better at helping you if you told me a certain carrier because Blackberry has a ton of models for every carrier.



T-Mobile, Boost, and the other smaller ones aren't really worth the trouble if you ask me.
SWedd523
09-09-2009, 09:35 PM
My fam has the Rumor's, they're pretty good.

I want an iPhone when I can get a new phone, but that's an expensive one and easily broken. IDK any of the other ones.
Definitely a fallacy dude. I've had a 3G and now 3G S for the past 2 years and have only had to replace it once (freak accident). I had an enV for the 2 years before that and replaced it at least 10 times for various problems. The iPhone's durability (both hardware AND software) is extremely underrated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUR70xhmqv4

pretty amazing considering its basically nothing but a piece of glass.
ziggy
09-09-2009, 10:22 PM
As far as Blackberrys go, they're all basically the same phone loaded with different versions of the same UI so they're all a wash. I'd be better at helping you if you told me a certain carrier because Blackberry has a ton of models for every carrier.



T-Mobile, Boost, and the other smaller ones aren't really worth the trouble if you ask me.

Sprint is my current carrier. You sound pretty sold on your iPhone, If you had to give that up what would be your second choice?
SWedd523
09-09-2009, 10:33 PM
Sprint is my current carrier. You sound pretty sold on your iPhone, If you had to give that up what would be your second choice?
For Sprint, or to stay on At&t? Your situation really depends on how close you are to ending your contract.
teej
09-09-2009, 10:44 PM
Definitely a fallacy dude. I've had a 3G and now 3G S for the past 2 years and have only had to replace it once (freak accident). I had an enV for the 2 years before that and replaced it at least 10 times for various problems. The iPhone's durability (both hardware AND software) is extremely underrated.

Well you probably take care of it.

I know a lot of people who've broken theirs, mostly with the screen cracking.
SWedd523
09-10-2009, 12:02 AM
Well you probably take care of it.

I know a lot of people who've broken theirs, mostly with the screen cracking.
drop mine at least once a day. I put it in my gym bag with keys and all types of stuff. In my pocket with change and whatnot.

The people that break them are doing things that would break pretty much any other phone.
Muttley
09-10-2009, 11:09 AM
I've got sprint and the palm centro. Really like it for playing music as well as the web, etc. I assume the Pre is just the better version of the centro. Although, my friends with iPhones really like them. Is it available for sprint?
SWedd523
09-10-2009, 01:12 PM
The Pre has an iPhone like touch screen with a slide-down keyboard so you don't have to type on the touch screen. As of now, the Pre is only available through Sprint, but Verizon is apparently gearing up to drop it soon.
ammofan
09-10-2009, 09:30 PM
get an iphone....they are great and lots of fun. i may get one at some point in the future. If u are in Charlotte go over to Southpark mall and go in the apple store and play around with them! there so cool
ziggy
09-18-2009, 04:28 PM
Well, I wound up getting the Palm Pre

http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab328/gen271981/PALM100HK_LPI.gif

Upgrading from my old phone (Sprint Rumor) to this one has been like going from a tricycle to a Jaguar.
SCBobcat
09-18-2009, 04:48 PM
The Pre sounds and looks nice. You could get that NFL Sunday ticket and watch games right on your phone too. I wonder if the NBA is going to follow suit.
SWedd523
09-18-2009, 04:54 PM
Well, I wound up getting the Palm Pre

http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab328/gen271981/PALM100HK_LPI.gif

Upgrading from my old phone (Sprint Rumor) to this one has been like going from a tricycle to a Jaguar.
NOICE

Definitely the one I'd have gone for on Sprint. Good choice!
davcbow
09-20-2009, 09:28 PM
I still ask, what do we need with that fancy of a phone?:cool:
ziggy
09-21-2009, 09:43 PM
I still ask, what do we need with that fancy of a phone?:cool:

A couple of reasons that I went all out on this phone was that I could ditch my mp3 player which was on it's last legs, I can stream audio (Pandora Rocks!), I can use it as a GPS and the browser is good enough that I can check in on BCP during the day. :biggrin:
davcbow
09-21-2009, 09:58 PM
A couple of reasons that I went all out on this phone was that I could ditch my mp3 player which was on it's last legs, I can stream audio (Pandora Rocks!), I can use it as a GPS and the browser is good enough that I can check in on BCP during the day. :biggrin:

OK sounds like you have it all logically planned out....:biggrin: