Mobile Phones

[Dust]

In the quest to acquire new toys, I thought about buying a new mobile phone (one that doesn't resemble cheap fisher price toys).

My current favorite is a Nokia E75. It has a quertz keyboard, so allows for easy typing (I think I'll use it more for mail than for phone calling someone). It runs S60 on Symbian 9, and the new QT releases will soon allow easy programming with that framework.
(Other nokia phones aren't bad either, but the N97 is expensive...)
http://shop.orange.ch/en/Nokia-E75-Sign ... t/10055227

But since I am fan of japanese things, I looked what's popular over there. It seems many phones from Sharp are used. A nice model seems to be the SH-06a. 10 Megapixel camera (I bet the optics aren't good enought to use that resolution...), huge screen, and symbian based OS (not S60 though) and interesting design make it tempting. Too bad I can't buy it in europe :(
http://forums.techarena.in/portable-devices/1165343.htm
http://www.sharp.co.jp/products/sh06a/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gnKfDzKdo

As for the iPhone: Virtual keys aren't bad, but I'd like real ones too. And it's so expensive :/

[Dust]

http://qt.nokia.com/developer/technical ... qt-for-s60
Isn't that cool? :)

[Rathil]

i recently bought me a Nokia N97 for my birthday - im sooo verry pleased by it
http://www.nokia.ro/produse/cautare-si- ... in/landing

[Noolah]

Should have got an iPhone.

[Ltuan]

I got an iPhone a few months ago and have never looked back, it's been worth every penny!

[Fangfury]

iPhone rules.

Dust loves Macs but hates iPhones. Weird. They're both made by Apple.

[Genetics]

i recently bought me a Nokia N97 for my birthday - im sooo verry pleased by it
http://www.nokia.ro/produse/cautare-si- ... in/landing

bought me one too in Hongkong.

Does yours also have chinese letters on the keyboard? can you also write chinese with it? jsut wonderign if its standard or all country dependend?
Mine only cost 540 euro.

[Neferata]

Well, as of yesterday I actually got myself a HTC Hero
http://www.htc.com/nl/product/hero/overview.html

Had the most simple phone ever before (was close to only writing SMS message in only CAPS ) so figured to go a different way and try something more fancy. Now only have to figure out what fancy things I can do with it

[Verna]

Well, as of yesterday I actually got myself a HTC Hero
http://www.htc.com/nl/product/hero/overview.html

I was thinking on ordering that phone myself when I start new job in 5 weeks Please, tell me how pleased you are with it when you've gotten familiar with it

Im also thinking on Samsung, which acording to the reviews I've read is the best phone ever made.
http://omniahd.samsungmobile.com/

And I laugh at iPhone :p

[Noolah]

And I laugh at iPhone :p

I used to laugh at the iPhone too. I now have a 32GB iPhone 3GS. As part of my job, over the last few weeks I've played with more smart phones than I care to count. If it weren't for the fact the Apple restrict installing App's to those it has approved via the itunes store, it would now be my companies smart phone of choice. The only problem being, we provide an application for remotely monitoring the CCTV systems we provide. So without the ability to freely install what we desire it's a bite useless. Otherwise, it's beaten everything else hands down, everything from speed of operation to usability is vastly superior.

[Cyberia]

So without the ability to freely install what we desire it's a bite useless.

Join the developer program your free to install any applications you develop on the iphone on any iphone you register with your account. Our company currently uses it to test applications on three iphones for development purposes ( well 2 iphones and 1 touch). Ofc the other way to do it would be to provide the monitoring over HTTP, you'll need to convert the stream into one the iphone can read.

[Dust]

Did you also look at the nokias? I am mainly interested in getting an extensible phone I can easily program, do IRC, SSH, E-Mail, surf the web. And maybe a call or two.

iPhones can be programmed if you write your code in-house, since a developper can deploy his own applications on his own phones. But that costs 99$ for the dev license. The Nokia I looked at can be programmed for free (I think) with Qt or symbian's own backend.

[Tiel]

Ever thought about an Android phone? Linux based, quite nifty and as far as I know rather open. HTC and Samsung have a few I believe.

[Dust]

They aren't out here with orange (one of the phone providers I looked at, the one that seems best currently). The only HTC they have is a Windows Mobile version ... which I don't even consider.

[Cend]

Nokia and Samsung. Those 2 words I understand rest go beyond me on this thread

Oh yeah I have a cell phone aswell