Smartphones

What comes to mind when you think of smartphones? Phones are getting more advanced nowadays combining phone, entertainment, games and business into one device.

The IPhone 4 and its predecessors, Android, Blackberry, Nokia E-Series and Windows Mobile 7 are some of the most common terms that we heard. I am using IPhone 3G(S) myself. Basically, I can do anything with the IPhone 3G(S) from productivy applications to multimedia applications which include games, music, movies, bibles, news, e-books, flashlight and photo uploading and enhacement applications. I can also use the IPhone as a GPS and as a universal remote control as well.

Which is the best of all of these? IPhone seems to be the benchmark now. Followed closely is the Android, the mobile operating system by Google.  Brands such as HTC, Motorola and Samsung has models using the Android operating system. When I was at Mid Valley yesterday, I tested the HTC Touch Diamond at the Digi Smartphones Fair in front of MPH / Coffee Bean. It has one of the smoothest touch screen UI after the IPhone. It is closely competing with the IPhone. Blackberry Storm or the Nokia X series touch screen phones does not come close. The models do not have a very smooth touch screen UI. It uses a different technology then the IPhone / Android. 

Blackberry is now the leader in smartphones for businessmen and businesswomen. With its push e-mail technology, you will receive office and personal e-mails on the go anywhere and anytime. It will definitely keep you busy. There are less applications compared with IPhone. Applications such as Facebook, Twitter, bibles and others are available but still are limited. IPhone and Nokia E-series may have push e-mail technology also but Blackberry are still th best in push e-mail. For IPhone, I have to launch the Mail application to view my e-mails but for the Blackberry, it is pushed to the phone immediately similar to a sms.

The Nokia E-Series is also good for business users. It has push e-mail, calendar and other productivity features. Samsung Omnia 2 is also a very good phone with vivid images and very good UI. It uses the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. It is one of the most powerful operating systems of the mobile world and can support a lot of features. The only thing is that the speed may be slow and Windows Mobile may hang or crashes similar to Windows crashes.  HTC also has Windows Mobile based phones. It used to be very cool.

Other phones that you can consider are the Samsung Corby and LG Cookie. These phones have less features but still features touch screen and other features.

What would you choose between these phones?

Let's talkback.

Here are the selections / choices:

1. IPhone 4 (also IPhone 3G(S) etc)
2. Samsung Omnia
3. Samsung Corby 
   
4. HTC Touch Diamond
5. HTC Magic
6. Other HTC Phones
7. Nexus One
8. Blackberry Storm
9. Blackberry Bold
10. Blackberry Pearl
11. Nokia X-series (X6, X3)
12. Nokia E-series (E61, E65, E71, E72 etc)
13. Nokia N-series (N95, N99, N85, N86, N81)
14. Motorola Q9h
15. Motorola Droid
16. Motorola Aura / Dext
17. Other Motorola smartphones
18. LG Chocolat
19. LG Smartphones
20. Sony Ericsson Xperia
21. Sony Ericsson Satio, Aino...
22. Sony Ericsson P9i
23. Just the normal phones (Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Samsung...)

Cheers,

Rogerkoo