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Your mobile , your style

 
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Which mobile you are using currently.
I do have Nokia 6020. My college days mobile

Which is yours ?
Whats your style mantra then...


Please attach the snapshot. Lets see which mobile is more popular.
 
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iPhone 3GS.

But I want an Android phone. The HTC Desire looks very nice. When the contract for my iPhone ends (which is not before the end of 2011...) I'll have a look what Android phones will be available by then and choose a nice one.

I want an Android phone because programming for it is much easier (I've tried Objective-C for the iPhone but didn't like it) and you're not subject to Apple's stranglehold on the iPhone app store.
 
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Jesper Young wrote:iPhone 3GS.

But I want an Android phone. The HTC Desire looks very nice. When the contract for my iPhone ends (which is not before the end of 2011...) I'll have a look what Android phones will be available by then and choose a nice one.

I want an Android phone because programming for it is much easier (I've tried Objective-C for the iPhone but didn't like it) and you're not subject to Apple's stranglehold on the iPhone app store.


Thats true.
You become the slave of iPhone.
 
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I am using Nokia 7610. But in office I am using G1 and Nexus. I want to buy NEXUS of my own.
 
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I've been using the HTC Desire for about 2-3 weeks and I'm very impressed.
 
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David O'Meara wrote:I've been using the HTC Desire for about 2-3 weeks and I'm very impressed.


Have you used Sony Xperia X10 ?
 
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I own 5800. It's an absolute allrounder..
 
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My wife has an iPhone and my last phone was a Nokia N95. IMO the iPhone is good, as far as it goes, but by being easy to use it sacrifices some versatility. Out of the box the HTC Desire doesn't compare (again all in my opinion) but after a few weeks I am gradually getting it set up the way I want it.

eg
The iPhone has icons as does the HTC, but the HTC icon links to the application while the iPhone icon is the application. If you remove the iPhone icon (too easy to do by grubby fingered children, in my experience!) then the app is uninstalled, while in the HTC you just need to readd the icon to the screen. You can also have the icon in multiple places. The HTC also has 'widgets' that attach to the screen so for example I always have one screen out of seven dedicated to a photo slide show using a full screen widget. None of this makes or breaks the phone, just some little points of difference.
 
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chetan dhumane wrote:
Thats true.
You become the slave of iPhone.


iPhone isn't enslaving any one.
iPhone isn't for every body's taste neither Android, neither any other device.
If you don't like the iPhone, don't buy it.
 
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LG Cosmos

 
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Jesper Young wrote:
I want an Android phone because programming for it is much easier (I've tried Objective-C for the iPhone but didn't like it) and you're not subject to Apple's stranglehold on the iPhone app store.


IMVHO:
* Google doesn't care about Android market all, doesn't care about the apps quality and doesn't care about the users.
Just check into Android market to see all kinds of trashy apps not to mention the illegal use of many registered trade marks.
All what they care about is to prevent Apple from getting all the ads revenues of mobiles.
* Google doesn't employ an approval policy in Android market not because the believe in the freedom of developers and users.
They don't have an approval policy because they know it brings a lot of headaches and even they want to deploy such a policy, they can't find a policy better than Apple's.
Google isn't really different from Apple, Microsoft and Oracle.
After all they are money making machines...
 
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I can't imagine using anything other than an iPhone. But that's just me.
 
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I'm the very proud owner of the HTC Desire. It's a great phone and would not trade it for any other phone (even the iLockIn ehm... I mean the iPhone ) But that's just me.
 
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John Todd wrote:

Jesper Young wrote:
I want an Android phone because programming for it is much easier (I've tried Objective-C for the iPhone but didn't like it) and you're not subject to Apple's stranglehold on the iPhone app store.


IMVHO:
* Google doesn't care about Android market all, doesn't care about the apps quality and doesn't care about the users.
Just check into Android market to see all kinds of trashy apps not to mention the illegal use of many registered trade marks.
All what they care about is to prevent Apple from getting all the ads revenues of mobiles.
* Google doesn't employ an approval policy in Android market not because the believe in the freedom of developers and users.
They don't have an approval policy because they know it brings a lot of headaches and even they want to deploy such a policy, they can't find a policy better than Apple's.
Google isn't really different from Apple, Microsoft and Oracle.
After all they are money making machines...



I do agree.
 
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John Todd wrote:

chetan dhumane wrote:
Thats true.
You become the slave of iPhone.


iPhone isn't enslaving any one.
iPhone isn't for every body's taste neither Android, neither any other device.
If you don't like the iPhone, don't buy it.



Hey Instead of that think about the satellite phone.
 
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Docomo F906i
 
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LG RD 6600


It's got voice calls and SMS.
For everything else I got a Canon S2iS, iPod and Mac/Ubuntu. For me a phone should be a phone.
 
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Maneesh Godbole wrote:LG RD 6600


It's got voice calls and SMS.
For everything else I got a Canon S2iS, iPod and Mac/Ubuntu. For me a phone should be a phone.



If a phone can be a phone + some more features why woudn't one want it?

For example my 5800 is a good phone + excellent music player(with a senheiser headphone) can be compared with ipod + good video player,comes with 8 GB memory card + internet browser (opera, wifi/gprs) + office editor(quick office) + ebook reader (adobe pdf )+ mobile camera quality(can't compare it with canon) + some games like chess, skyforce reloaded + maps with GPS + smart applications like auto profile changer with timer, calendar & gps options + auto answering , call recording or terminating application + some more....

what do you say??
 
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* Bragging mode on *

I'm now in the train on my laptop connected with the internet by the hotspot created by my phone
You've got to love technology

* Bragging mode off *
 
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Wouter Oet wrote:* Bragging mode on *

I'm now in the train on my laptop connected with the internet by the hotspot created by my phone
You've got to love technology

* Bragging mode off *


Can you just put your mobile name with pic
 
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I already said what my phone is but hell let's do it again, this time with pic: it's the HTC Desire with Android 2.2.
 
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Droid with Android 2.1-update1

I use it extensively for
1. making/receiving calls
2. GPS
3. MS outlook, Gmail, browsing, yahoo mail, Calendars, etc.
4. facebook
5. camera (5 MP) also record video
6. Stickie pad

Now and then I download free apps, the current apps I use most are: weather, some quotes.
 
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Wouter Oet wrote:I already said what my phone is but hell let's do it again, this time with pic: it's the HTC Desire with Android 2.2.


Looking good !
 
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Christophe Verré wrote:

Wouter Oet wrote:I already said what my phone is but hell let's do it again, this time with pic: it's the HTC Desire with Android 2.2.


Looking good !


I think many people here are using the HTC Desire.
The phone seems so cool ....
 
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I've just checked the price Ouch...
 
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I got my HTC Desire here in Oz, but it was zero up front and essentially the same contract as I was on previously.
 
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David O'Meara wrote:I got my HTC Desire here in Oz, but it was zero up front and essentially the same contract as I was on previously.


I'm Oz ?

[Dave - superpowers ftw ]
 
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What about Sony Xperia X10
Any one has the cool experience about it.


You can share your experiences of this phone.
 
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