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Old 15-03-2012, 12:03
Scotty2012
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Mine is the Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-i9100)
I love it! It virtually does everything I want and the design is great.

Which one do you have any what do you like/love about it?
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:04
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HTC desire
a couple of years old now and I'm looking to replace it - but it still hold it's own against the new boys
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:05
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a nokia x6 and i loathe it.
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:09
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I have an HTC Hero but its becoming a bit clunky now... luckily I'm due an upgrade..... right now
I'm fishing for a Galaxy S2 as it happens.. have to see how Mr Orange feels about it.
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:10
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Shouting it out there for the Samsung Galaxy Mini.
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:13
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An old Samsung Monte, that hasn't let me down. It's been dropped down the toilet, and once left to fully dry out worked fine, it's been dropped and stood on and still works fine. The battery lasts around 3-5 days of normal useage, and even as long as a week with only a few texts and a phone call or two.

My friends Iphone broke last week when she dropped it from her bag, about 3 feet into a wooden floor. The screen cracked but it appeared to still work, but when picking it up she stumbled and dropped it again. Now it wont even turn on. It also had bloody awful battery life.

Another friend had the Galaxy S2, a superb phone but once again, he dropped it on a night out and smashed the screen. It too has awful battery life.

Modern smartphones seem to be quite fragile, probably because of the large glass screens, and the battery life is shocking because of their sheer power.

I still want an S2 though.
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:19
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Got an iPhone4.

Didn't bother upgrading to the 4S, don't think there's enough benefit to warrant me signing another 24 month contract. Will wait until the 5 comes out.

I love it, I use it for so much, Facebook, Sky Football app, Sat Nav, numerous word games with friends, Sky+ remote record, ESPN Goals app, email, finding my way round a random city, watching Gillette Soccer Saturday while I use the TV to play on the XBox etc etc. It's the little things like this that make them so great.

I'd never be without it.
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:21
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Incidentally in my experience the iPhone is virtually indestructable.

Long story but mine ended up in the oven for 10 minutes at 200 degrees. After a 5 minute rest all that had stopped working was the external loud speaker. I swapped it for a new one though as it not ringing annoyed me.
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:24
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Mine is the Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-i9100)
I love it! It virtually does everything I want and the design is great.

Which one do you have any what do you like/love about it?
Aaaaaw, congratulations.
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:40
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I have a HTC Desire S. A neat little gadget it is.
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:42
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I'm saving up for this one. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...ZEJ4XVMV2QNBPJ
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:43
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Another friend had the Galaxy S2, a superb phone but once again, he dropped it on a night out and smashed the screen. It too has awful battery life.
Smartphones and alcohol don't mix.
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:43
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I've got a S2 as well... very impressed
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Old 15-03-2012, 12:52
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There seems to be a lot of reverse pride in not being conformist and not going with what everyone else seems to find appealing, the latest gadget built around the premise of being a phone but is actually in effect a mini handheld computer. The fact is these new devices are only built around the concept of being a phone but they're so much more, communication is itself is increasingly based around the internet, the very concept of phone calls and texts is starting to become obsolete, if you have the Skype app for example you can message people eliminating the need to use the mobile companies text messaging, unfortunately they often block Skype voice calls over 3G Internet because quite simply if this took off, increasingly we wouldn't need to make an actual call which we have tarriffs for, it would fall within the cheaper by comparison data packages!

I'm not a conformist person either but the idea of having a handheld smartphone entertainment device that does most things we once needed seperate devices for such as an MP3 player, FM Radio with RDS, a handheld camera for still pictures and video, a GPS unit, internet browsing and not to mention portable games console and handheld personal video player is pretty appealing, in 2012 it's now possible to have all that in one high quality unit. I avoid Iphones and everything Apple as I believe that is pretty conformist, Apple lock people down and try to make it so that their phones and tablets can only use approved apps, so I back Android devices which I think are amongst the best thing to happen to consumer electronics for a long time.

Some people will say they don't need all these features which is fine, it could equally be said in the home, I just need a TV and Freeview box, I just want to watch TV simple, I don't need all these new fangled Blu-Ray players, games consoles, DVD recorders etc!

One thing I would say is that on the Android device I have (a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc), sometimes it can be running slow like computers do! and that can admittedly go against the purpose of a phone, as it can make it groggy and take ages to get what is obviously the "phone" app within it up, as a result an earlier 2007 Sony Ericsson device (which is a nice compromise between a mini computer and a simple phone) which offers a basic camera and excellent FM radio, is extremely simple to use as a phone and so I would recommend this sort of phone to anyone who doesn't want anything too tech-heavy, they're now much cheaper of course!
~But Android isn't necessarily expensive, £60 will now get you a basic Android device, I had an Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade) and in comparison to the LG Cookie (just before Android had a few nice MP3 playback features etc but was a closed affair!) it was like opening a door to a new world. Android is like a new Windows, almost anything you might want is available as an app, and in my case I wanted TuneIn to listen to internet radio stations with Walkman style.
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Old 15-03-2012, 13:31
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Mine's a Motorola Defy, not the coolest of smartphones, but I love the way it bounces off of tarmac
and can be chucked in my handbag or wherever without a second thought.
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Old 15-03-2012, 13:36
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I don't have a smartphone but then I don't have an ancient, black and white no camera phone either. I've got a Nokia X2, it's the 2nd one I've had and I think I'll be hanging on to it for a few years yet. Though knowing me I'll probably end up getting a newer model later this year
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Old 15-03-2012, 13:44
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iPhone 4S and it's so much better than previous iPhones that I actually pity people with the iPhone 4 or before.
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Old 15-03-2012, 13:46
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Nokia Lumia 800 Windows 7.5 phone.
Love it. Best phone I have every had, plenty of high quality apps.
Being able to control the XBOX from work, see what games the kids are playing, connecting to my home server, the Zune music store. I could go on.
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Old 15-03-2012, 14:29
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I have an Xperia Ray and I absolutely love it. Screen is small-ish but the quality is fantastic, it runs fairly fast and I can, and often do, a lot of things on it.

Smartphones, these days, are so much more than simply phones.
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Old 15-03-2012, 14:45
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

Hate: battery life

Love: everything else
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Old 15-03-2012, 14:48
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

Hate: battery life

Love: everything else
Thread's now been taken over by talking about the modern phones, which is a sort of irony, same issue with Battery life, now carry 2 batteries.
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Old 15-03-2012, 14:55
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Thread's now been taken over by talking about the modern phones, which is a sort of irony, same issue with Battery life, now carry 2 batteries.
What? Was that not the point? There's another thread for old phones.
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Old 15-03-2012, 15:05
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Nokia Lumia 800. Love the look of the phone and of the UI, too.
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Old 15-03-2012, 15:31
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Galaxy Nexus. Awesome phone, love it to death, current king of phones. S3 is round the corner though!
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Old 15-03-2012, 15:33
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I have a HTC Desire S. A neat little gadget it is.
Me too. Buttery smooth ui. (Endymion 3.4)
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