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Best smart phone?

Rex

Iphone is the most beautiful phone I know of, but it really is a phone for dummies. Easy to use, but extremely limited compared to top Android devices.

Claudius

Captain wrote:
Claudius wrote:
Been using my Samsung Galaxy Mini for a month. Much better than Blackberry, but my iPhone is in no danger of being replaced here.
Likes: screen size is usable is about 2mm shorter than my iphone 5S. the navigation buttons outside the screen area are another nice feature relative to Apple.
Dislikes: keyboards are poor at predictive text, both the native keyboard and Swype. in fact, Swype is shit. plain and simple. it's counterproductive. not intuitive. i can't look at the phone and immediately hypothesise where one might find power management, for example. have a button on the right that keeps turning my ringer on. the volume button also doubles up as a mute button. so it's easy for the phone to turn the ringer on in your pocket. so you're sitting in a meeting and it starts ringing or beeping. extremely annoying.

overall, 6/10.

Have to keep in mind that your iphone is a top of the range device, designed around it's software. Galaxy mini is an entry level phone for pay as you go users on a budget.

None of my dislikes pertain to premium features. Just bad software and hardware design. The premium Android phones are too big for my pants

Captain

Well hardware design would be because it isn't a premium phone and samsung doesn't use vanilla android, in particular their touchwiz keyboard gets alot of user complaints.

Burnwinter

There certainly are people who lack the digital literacy to do it, but the TouchWiz keyboard can be swapped for any available keyboard app in a couple of moments.

kamikaze

Rex wrote:
Iphone is the most beautiful phone I know of, but it really is a phone for dummies. Easy to use, but extremely limited compared to top Android devices.

i personally find the design of the iphone to be ugly, but that's pretty subjective.

Claudius

Samsung out with the S5. and a bunch of stuff to slap on your wrists.
Few things - these launches are getting harder for Samsung and Apple. These phones keep getting even more amazing spec-wise, but there's no real "one more thing" about them anymore.

On wearable tech - I'm struggling here. What are these Galaxy Gears and Galaxy strap-ons that they are making. What's the business case and use case here?

Rex

Sounds like equivalents of the Pebble watch. I think it is an interesting concept.

Burnwinter

Jogging is a good use case for a smartwatch.

goon

Think smart watches will ultimately flop. Seems like a largely pointless, yet expensive device. Why would you need something on your wrist that does a fraction of what your phone does when your phone is always likely to be within reach anyway?

Google Glass on the other hand has endless possibilities. Quite scary actually.

Samgsung can't really do much with their smartphone. The key is getting it to integrate more and more with everyday life, but that's more down to third parties.

Claudius

here is what i am trying to understand from Samsung's side
are these little watches used as a tool to lock people into to the Samsung phone? the idea is basically i am able to collect all my jogging data through my watch/wrist-band and it only works with a Samsung phone for analysis and aggregation. hence, i don't want to ever lose my Samsung phone. even then, what percentage of Galaxy users want one and are at risk of switching over to iOs/Windows, etc?

so overall uptake will be small relative to the Galaxy. so how can we get more money out of the watch users? will Samsung sell them expensive health apps? can't see that. so this is just a hardware play for a small market.

i can see why this would be important to a small company like a Fitbit or the makers of Pebble, but i can't understand why it would be critical to Samsung. this will be an extremely marginal part of the Galaxy business. lots of wasted mindspace on the part of the company

Rex

The Pebble watch works with all Android smartphones, doesn't it? As you say, there can't be much money in a watch which will only work with one brand.

kamikaze

google glass is the first step towards a scary future. then on to google contacts, then implanted straight in the eye. won't be too long before the elite can not only have genetically-enhanced designer babies, but also all the information on the internet accessible directly to their brains. not really that hard to imagine, either.

Klaus

We're turning into a generation of Robocops without guns. 🙁

Rex

We need the guns, otherwise there is no fun in it.

Clrnc

Claudius wrote:
Samsung out with the S5. and a bunch of stuff to slap on your wrists.
Few things - these launches are getting harder for Samsung and Apple. These phones keep getting even more amazing spec-wise, but there's no real "one more thing" about them anymore.

On wearable tech - I'm struggling here. What are these Galaxy Gears and Galaxy strap-ons that they are making. What's the business case and use case here?

HTC One 2 will be out next month. That will truly set the war alive between Android's top 2 phones.

Claudius

probably the best looking phone on the market. what does it do the Galaxy doesn't?

Clrnc

The HTC one M8 looks amazing. I am going to trade in my HTC one M7 for that.

Irishgunner

Anyone upgraded to Windows phone 8.1? It's pretty awesome! So glad I bought a windows phone off contract 🙂 I genuinely prefer my entry level Lumia 520 to my old iPhone 4S, amazing value for money.

invisibleman18

Loving the Lumia 520 too. Excellent phone for a first smartphone and enjoying windows phone too. When it eventually dies I imagine I'll replace it with the equivalent model at the time.

Irishgunner

Invis, in regards to the incredibly poor battery life: I've fixed it 😃

The problem was email, google don't provide push mail to windows phone which meant that my phone was checking for new email every 15mins. That was the cause of the poor battery life.

Download "metromail," the app provides push mail for gmail. Battery life is perfect since I installed it.

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