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ekul wrote:
EDIT: I just thought of a simple test. Which do you do more? Make calls or do everything else the phone offers? If you mostly make calls a featurephone is for you. If you do a lot of web browsing, texting, navigating, emailing, calendar checking, twitter feed reading, restaurant review hunting and mobile game playing then a smartphone will serve you better. Featurephones are phones first, everything else second. Smartphones reverse that ratio. They make calls just fine but they do everything else much better since they have better input, bigger screens, faster hardware and more flexible OSs.
Ushio01 wrote:I think i'll get this then.
http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones/nokia-e63/specifications
It adds AAC support and the below 2 features to my phone which already had the rest of your list only lacking full flash but on a 2.36" who cares about full flash support.
1. Full HTML/CSS rendering engine. The device needs to be able to display the real web
2. QWERTY input. Hardware or software but there needs to be one button per letter
Thanks for the clarification.
Ushio01 wrote:I think i'll get this then.
http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones/nokia-e63/specifications
It adds AAC support and the below 2 features to my phone which already had the rest of your list only lacking full flash but on a 2.36" who cares about full flash support.
1. Full HTML/CSS rendering engine. The device needs to be able to display the real web
2. QWERTY input. Hardware or software but there needs to be one button per letter
Thanks for the clarification.
Ushio01 wrote:I think i'll get this then.
http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones/nokia-e63/specifications
It adds AAC support and the below 2 features to my phone which already had the rest of your list only lacking full flash but on a 2.36" who cares about full flash support.
1. Full HTML/CSS rendering engine. The device needs to be able to display the real web
2. QWERTY input. Hardware or software but there needs to be one button per letter
Thanks for the clarification.
ekul wrote:...
To see if the switch would be worth it let's define a smartphone. For me it would have to include:
1. Full HTML/CSS rendering engine. The device needs to be able to display the real web
2. QWERTY input. Hardware or software but there needs to be one button per letter
3. App support. There needs to be a way to install things
4. Full email support. POP3/IMAP and SSL/TLS support
5. Media support. Needs to play back all sorts of audio and video formats, especially MP3, AAC and h.264
I imagine there are other things that people look for in a smartphone but that is my list.
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...Featurephones are phones first, everything else second. Smartphones reverse that ratio. They make calls just fine but they do everything else much better since they have better input, bigger screens, faster hardware and more flexible OSs.
zima wrote:Your list indeed shows that the distinction is quite blurry...more than you think, I guess. Nokia 6700 does almost all of those things (lately S40 comes with Webkit web browser, too; still, IMHO Opera Mini works too good to pass), only except QWERTY of course; but that's mostly a choice of form factor.
...also few things worse. Mostly sturdiness, battery life, size (input, screens, faster hardware (which is there largely because OS requires it - Nokia featurephones certainly don't feel laggy) don't help in most of those; as usual, a matter of compromise). And I still can't get rid of the perception that signal reception and call reliability is better in simpler phones...
I have an E63 and I would recommend installing Skype, a Top Voip Provider, (yes it works both over 3g and Wifi and doesnt use airtime minutes, only data) or another voip application from a Top Voip Provider and Opera Mobile 10 beta. I am not too happy with the email client on the phone, so I bought Profimail. But maybe you will like the default client anyway. Keyboard is pretty nice once you get used to it. The inbuilt web browser is not good and Opera is way better but still free.
SMonroe wrote:I have an E63 and I would recommend installing Skype Business VoIP, (yes it works both over 3g and Wifi and doesnt use airtime minutes, only data) or another voip application from a VoIP service providers and Opera Mobile 10 beta. I am not too happy with the email client on the phone, so I bought Profimail. But maybe you will like the default client anyway. Keyboard is pretty nice once you get used to it. The inbuilt web browser is not good and Opera is way better but still free.
There are significant advantages to upgrading to a Smartphone, such as the PIM system, multimedia apps, browsing the web, etc. However, it can be somewhat overwhelming for a beginner---you need to familiarize yourself with all the features and this takes a while..plus there is less simplicity of use. It is really like a miniature PC so great for business use.
GMatlock wrote:I have an E63 and I would recommend installing Skype, (yes it works both over 3g and Wifi and doesn't use airtime minutes, only data) or another voip application from Opera Mobile 10 beta. I am not too happy with the email client on the phone, so I bought Profimail. But maybe you will like the default client anyway. Keyboard is pretty nice once you get used to it. The inbuilt web browser is not good and Opera is way better but still free.
If you are even somewhat cell phone or computer internet savvy, I don't think there is much of a learning curve to smart phones. The droids are the way to the future in my opinion.
edall wrote:I hear they are taking orders for the newest iphone on Friday. I have always been a blackberry user but am ready to make the switch to an iphone because of peer pressure. ha ha Does the iphone have anything similar to BBM which is particularly important to me for my international travels?
Any info is greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
E. D.