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| Thread ID: 120217 | 2011-08-30 07:07:00 | Best Smartphone between $300 and $600 | John Calvert (16516) | Press F1 |
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| 1227079 | 2011-08-30 07:07:00 | If you have a smartphone that cost between $300 and $600, would you recommend it? What are the best things about it? What do you hate about it? (and can you live with those faults?) Any tips/warnings/advice for someone who's only ever had a "dumb" cellphone before? |
John Calvert (16516) | ||
| 1227080 | 2011-08-30 07:38:00 | well, what network are you going to be on?? that can limit your choices in some cases |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1227081 | 2011-08-30 07:57:00 | My $360 HTC Trophy is pretty good :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1227082 | 2011-08-30 08:12:00 | @GameJunkie: No preference as to network. It'll be a new connection/contract, not an upgrade. | John Calvert (16516) | ||
| 1227083 | 2011-08-30 10:19:00 | LG Optimus P500 or the Vodafone 858 If you can stretch for the Galaxy S, aside from the short battery life they're bloody good phones! Gorilla Glass is *awesome*! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1227084 | 2011-08-30 21:50:00 | depends if you want grey (parallel import) or not . . . if yes, $600 could get you a HTC Desire HD . Androids are good but caution that if you need GPS most you have to pay airtime for 3G . HTC has free offline maps but not voice guidance - needs to pay, but not others . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1227085 | 2011-08-30 22:09:00 | I love my galaxy S, if you are lucky you may find it at $600 now that the S II is available, if not check the mobile section here at PC world they just recently reviewed the smaller cheaper galaxy mini. And by GPS I assume Nomad is referring to the navigator app or something similar and in my experience the data usage is fairly minimal, I'm only on 100Mb a month and I've barely noticed the usage from using navigator a couple of times (Wi-Fi at home and work really cuts down on mobile dtata :) ). Navigator requires you to download the voice plugin but it's free. I think the biggest gripe with the cheaper smartphones would be the smaller screens and slower CPU, smaller memory capacity. They may be a bit sluggish to run some apps and hard to read in others. To be honest I wouldn't browse the net very often on any smartphone the screens are just too small for regular usage, custom apps like NZ herald and E-mail, facebook, etc are great however. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1227086 | 2011-08-30 22:15:00 | Yep, but for real travelling abroad, roaming is astronomical. Unless you get a local simcard in every country and lose your number. And for locally, if you don't have a data plan it means you might need one. Before I lost my E75, it's a business phone, it was a 2.5" screen it did the tasks alright but it was not a consuming device. You could read an email, read the news, use the GPS. It did the job when required. Also note that some cheaper phones don't have Wifi ability. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1227087 | 2011-08-30 23:39:00 | I had a play with a HTC Desire in Parallel Imported a little while back and was pretty impressed with it, but in the end I went for a second hand iPhone (student budget :D) as I already had a iPod touch and was familiar with all the apps etc. Only once or twice when I've stumbled across a flash based website have I wished I'd got an Andriod phone. |
expression (16517) | ||
| 1227088 | 2011-08-31 00:29:00 | LG Optimus P500 or the Vodafone 858 If you can stretch for the Galaxy S, aside from the short battery life they're bloody good phones! Gorilla Glass is *awesome*! my brother got the LG Optimus P500 recently and he seems happy with it. not something i would buy but a good entry into the world of android |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
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