Mobile phones & tablets thread

I'm wondering wheter i should get the iphone 4 or a android/htc desire. I already own the iphone 3gs. What i like about the android that it is open source which means i/developers can do whatever i want with it without asking Steve Jobs if he approves. Obviously the Iphone is a fantastic user friendly product? Is it a big step from 3gs to Iphone 4 in terms of speed. Apart from that retina display i don't care about facetime or hd pictures/videos, ofcourse that would be nice but not essential.

The retina display is indeed nice but I've had no problems with the screen on my Desire. I used it as an e-reader (Amazon's Kindle software) for about 2 hours on a flight without the slightest bit of eye strain, and photos and video looks great.

If you're used to the 3G you'll obviously have no problems getting to grips with the 4; but Android isn't exactly hard to use. In all honesty, have a play with both and go with the phone that best suits you.

Of course if you already have a 3GS then upgrading to the 4 means you keep your apps.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Makes sense. Despite rivals coming out with some excellent products. Right at this moment the iPhone 4 is still the best overall package out there IMO. I'm not sure how much advantage you'll see over the 3GS apart from the display quality and improved GPS reception, but at least you'll be able to keep all your apps!

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I'm not even on 3GS...I have a prehistoric 3G. Hopefully it will be lots better. I know how slow my 3G is compared to 3GS. Plus I wont need to rebuild the phone everytime TomTom updates if I upgrade.

Dave, I doubt the iphone problem your friends are having is actually related to the upgrade. I have had the same problem when I've rebuilt my iphone and its to do with how your contacts are saved; whether on the phone or on the sim card. You go can go into the phone settings and restore them. It takes about 5 seconds do. Granted, it would be far easier if you didnt have to spend the 5 seconds doing it yourself.

I'll let them know, thanks. One of them had to take theirs to the (ahem) Genius bar to get it working. :s

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Originally Posted by Dave B

I wanted to copy come wedding photos to show people, on my Nokia and my Desire I just.... copied them. Want to Bluetooth one to someone else? Takes 10 seconds. Can't do that with iPhones.

BTW, one of my friends has this as their Facebook status this morning:


One of the comments:



Oh. Even when I updated the entire OS on my HTC, all my data survived intact.

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And people still buy the iPhone in droves......

I still can't work out how Apple seem to portray this image of being a company that makes products that "just work" when clearly things are not quite so smooth as they would want you to believe. I mean FFS Gridgirl is talking about having to rebuild her iPhone EVERYTIME TomTom release an update and she still wants to buy a new one that was designed with an antenna which doesn't work as well as an antenna should...... Apple used to go on about how you had to restart your PC everytime you installed something new and now what are they making you do with your iPhone? :confused: Something far more tiresome. Now of course the problem is most likely down to TomTom being a bit sloppy with their app, but isn't this the sort of thing that the walled garden is meant to protect you against?

Now Apple can make a good product, the iPod is proof of this but when will people wake up and see that the competition is actually pretty good and that the iPhone is not revolutionary, magical or whatever flowery word Steve Knobs wants to portray it as when compared to the competition. Tie this overrated phone to Apples much hated iTunes and it's not as good as troublefree as Apple would have you believe.

Well it's your money :laugh:

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Originally Posted by Mark

Of course if you already have a 3GS then upgrading to the 4 means you keep your apps.

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My current thinking is to go for a Ipad and wait for the next generation of iphone/androids. I don't think the leap is so big from 3gs to iphone 4. 3g to Iphone is massive speedwise. Actually i think i'm not going to buy the Ipad either, a ipad with a retina display that is what i'm gonna wait for.

I like my fIsher pRice 3G. It's simple and does what I want (mind you I said the same of my old Nokia which would just phone and text). I also don't feel the need to tell everyone else that they need to get one, or shouldn't get something else. I think that one of the reasons that I plucked for the iPhone is that I was fed up with people pointing out every little problem and then telling me to get an HTC.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

I like my fIsher pRice 3G. It's simple and does what I want (mind you I said the same of my old Nokia which would just phone and text). I also don't feel the need to tell everyone else that they need to get one, or shouldn't get something else. I think that one of the reasons that I plucked for the iPhone is that I was fed up with people pointing out every little problem and then telling me to get an HTC.

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So you went against the advice you were getting.... because there were too many people telling you to do something? :confused: How many people would it take to say "don't jump off a cliff" for you to jump off a cliff? :confused: