I need a new mobile phone. The iPhone is the obvious choice but buying a phone that is locked into a provider I haven’t chosen seems too much like a Microsoft trick to me. Making a new user jump through hoops and sign locking agreements, preventing them from using the product in the way they want to use it, is something you expect from a Windows product, not a Mac one.
Trouble is, there really isn’t anything to touch it in terms of style and performance. However, all I need is a reasonable screen, Tri-Band, Wi-Fi, an IMAP email client, proper web access, a useable keyboard and a non microsoft operating system.
Any reasonably able non windows smartphone would be suitable. If only there was something that made one model shout “buy me” to help me make a decision.
And then a friend sent me this photograph.
Street Fighter 2 on a Nokia E61i.
I think we have a contender.
Hahaha, awesome
Hahaha, that is awesome!
Street Fighter is probably impossible to play on a iPhone…
I just ordered the LG Viewty as second phone. It has a 5 megapixel photo and video camera (up to 130fps mp4), 3″ touchscreen, a full browser, landscape mode, quad band, 434 hours standby.
Sure, it has no wi-fi, but has HSDPA (3.5G), which, if you have a flat rate contract, makes more sense to me.
Next thing for my first phone is also to “upgrade” to an iPhone. Hope the Viewty get’s me busy untill there is a 3g iPhone coming out. Edge might be ok enough, but i always have trouble settling with something if there is in fact something better out there, in this case something faster.
Sorry, i forgot:
Here is a review of the Viewty by Cnet, worth reading.
does the Iphone have IMAP? i don’t think it does. anyways, the iphone is pretty, but m boyz don’t find it very useful for anything beyond showing it to people.
I do understand that emotional reaction, I did not like the thought either.
but… buy an iphone, you’ll love the features and won’t look back.
of course, at the time I had been on a month-to-month deal with my carrier and that month run out 3 days after buying the iphone… I do know a few who had to pay penalty for switching mid contract, but they never regretted it either.
@Curtis Earl: yes, iPhone has IMAP, this is how I keep up-to-date with my email when on the road. POP3 at home and the same accounts as IMAP on the iPhone. Works great.
iphone does imap pretty well with gmail. and enterprise and push email’s coming in 2.0
forget a smartphone just buy any old crappy nokia for sms and calls and get an asus eee for the other stuff!
I was looking around because I love your site design (upstartblogger).
So i stumbled upon this post about E61i.
I have the phone since one year and am very happy with it. I prefer it to the iphone.
Even if, of course, it would be perfectible.