What will your next phone be? [poll](gopollgo.com)
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What will your next phone be? [poll]
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Yep, being locked in is the price I am willing to pay for a phone that works and integrates across the broad. Clean and simple. I'm not 20 anymore and I don't have time to play with my phone to tease out the perfect setup. It's a tool and it must work (interestingly not as a telephone but as a PDA).
Even with an iPhone you can make your calendar and contacts live on Google's servers. Not that's necessarily an improvement for some.
For syncing contacts check the SyncInABlink app (no affiliation).
For syncing contacts check the SyncInABlink app (no affiliation).
If I were willing to let Google sell my info to their advertisers, I'd use an Android phone -- they work unbelievably well when you choose the Google lock-in. I guess the crux of my post was that I'm happier locked in to Apple than Google because I trust Apple more than I trust Google.
For a normal, I usually recommend iPhone, because the app selection is better, but the phones qua phones are largely interchangeable these days, IMHO.
For a normal, I usually recommend iPhone, because the app selection is better, but the phones qua phones are largely interchangeable these days, IMHO.
Scoble is right on: "One thing is this shows how deep a hole Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, and Palm Pre are in."
Given the title I was hoping for a wide ranging piece about the transition from phone to exo-brain and the implications for society.
I'm actually thinking of getting a basic flip phone next. My iPad does 150% of what I wish a smart phone to do. I have it with me more than my current smartphone. It's a waste of money.
Although the call functionality would be missing in that case, doesn't that leave you still relatively on point for the poll.
Perhaps the poll would work just as well, with the same answers, but the question being "Which platform will you be on after your next upgrade?"
I'd be willing to bet that the results would still be very similar in that case.
Perhaps the poll would work just as well, with the same answers, but the question being "Which platform will you be on after your next upgrade?"
I'd be willing to bet that the results would still be very similar in that case.
I tentatively agree that a tablet is better than a smart phone even on the road although a device with a 10.3-inch screen is too big to hold securely in one hand while using the other hand to input "gestures".
I tend to expect Apple to eventually sell tablets with 7-inch screens (and 15-inch screens) as well as the current 10.3-inch screens.
I tend to expect Apple to eventually sell tablets with 7-inch screens (and 15-inch screens) as well as the current 10.3-inch screens.
> 10.3-inch screen is too big to hold securely in one hand while using the other hand to input "gestures"
I disagree, must have bigger/stronger hands? 7" is too small to be usable and too big to be handy and is utterly worthless (to me).
I disagree, must have bigger/stronger hands? 7" is too small to be usable and too big to be handy and is utterly worthless (to me).
By "hold securely in one hand", I meant with the thumb on one side of the tablet and 3 finger on the other side. You must have very big and strong hands if you can hold an iPad that way without quickly getting tired.
P.S. video of a chick holding an iPad and a 7-inch Galaxy Tab: at 0:50 in http://www.g4tv.com/videos/50269/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-Review/
P.S. video of a chick holding an iPad and a 7-inch Galaxy Tab: at 0:50 in http://www.g4tv.com/videos/50269/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-Review/
If I had to do it for more than 5min (which is never since I'm near table/desk/bed/armrest/carseat/horizontal plane of some sort 90% of my life) I'd hold it resting on my palm/forearm with my fingers curled around it's top. Thumb and 3 finger on one side is not secure nor sustainable.
Actually, the iPad's screen is 9.7 inches.
For people who don't want to vote (and therefore cannot see the color key) The values are purple == iphone and blue == android, roughly equal with a combined 90% of the vote.
Android. I own an android phone since a short while and I love it.
Full disclosure: I'm an alumni of Apple, so take the above with the appropriate amount of salt.