Which phone should i get?

[RatedRShadow]

Okay.. Samsung Jet is kind of too much for my budget. And i have to re-consider another phone.. The new Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700 look great.. Wonder does it have the features i mentioned?

[The Professor]

I'm not trolling. Crapberries are just that: crap. The blackberry operating system (which is getting yet again revised might I mention due to continued crappiness) is better suited to run on my wrist watch. It loses in most every category. I can't even get a decent web browser on the thing let alone have any sort of sufficient application store. It's just a horrible device that's holding us back, and if you have a blackberry I truly honestly do feel sorry for you, because in my god honest opinion you did infact get ripped off.

If they're so universally crap then please explain the praise they get by professional reviewers and high market share. You don't get that by churning out crap phones, look at windows mobile. It's market share is pitiful because it is almost universally regarded as useless by reviewers and users, as well as tending to be expensive. Besides its strength is in its hardware.

I didn't get ripped off because I wanted a second hand phone with a physical keyboard and decent battery life and paid £30 for it on ebay. Personally I'd call that a good deal.

Sorry to derail the thread OP, the galaxy spica looks pretty good from what I've seen if you want an entry level smartphone. Don't get your hopes up too high though, anything on that budget is likely to have an element of slugishness and cut corners.

[Sharon]

don't get a dumb phone (and yes by my definition a blackberry is not a smartphone).

In my eyes there are only two variants of phones worth while getting on the current market: an Android phone (such as a Nexus one) or an iPhone. Anything else probably wont be good enough.

fgs dave you use every chance you have to promote apple.

Er HTC?

[Xtina]

HTC hd 2? I have that phone now;d

[lTraditional]

tbh, i only have an old phone which i had like 2 years ago because i couldn't be bothered to get a new one but my sister got an iPhone cheap at stores.

[HotelUser]

If they're so universally crap then please explain the praise they get by professional reviewers and high market share. You don't get that by churning out crap phones, look at windows mobile. It's market share is pitiful because it is almost universally regarded as useless by reviewers and users, as well as tending to be expensive. Besides its strength is in its hardware.

I didn't get ripped off because I wanted a second hand phone with a physical keyboard and decent battery life and paid £30 for it on ebay. Personally I'd call that a good deal.

Sorry to derail the thread OP, the galaxy spica looks pretty good from what I've seen if you want an entry level smartphone. Don't get your hopes up too high though, anything on that budget is likely to have an element of slugishness and cut corners.

Because the majority of the praise was from older blackberry devices and the current praise has absolutely no relevance to actual smartphone features which the market is progressing towards focusing on (camera, web browser, appstore, gaming) because the blackberry cannot do these things, therefore the gap between it and a modern smartphone is widened.

For a person who wants a non smart-phone then yes a blackberry is a candidate. From a smartphone perspective it's a 16bit os in a 64bit world.

[RatedRShadow]

Sorry to derail the thread OP, the galaxy spica looks pretty good from what I've seen if you want an entry level smartphone. Don't get your hopes up too high though, anything on that budget is likely to have an element of slugishness and cut corners.

Ya, did some research on it. Although it look great, but the functions are pretty bad and little.

[Markeh]

If you didn't want touchscreen, the Sony W715 would be ideal, but its only on Vodafone.

It's a tad old now, but the Nokia 5800 does all the things you've mentioned.