New Phone Decision

[Exar Kun]

I don't personally see why anyone would bother with anything other than an iPhone. Each to their own i guess. It's been just about the best thing i've ever owned.

Simple for me - I like having my own ringtone - the same one I've had for the last 6 years. On android I copied it across from my old phone, easy. On an iphone I would have had to go through some stupid work around including installing itunes just to get it across. Syncing my Outlook, gmail, twitter, facebook and flickr and merging them all into the one contacts list in a couple of minutes after first plugging my phone into my PC was a nice bonus after that.

[Hazelb]

Well I got a new gadget today, a replacement work phone.

I had a choice of iphone or Blackberry. I chose the later purely on its ability to handle email, outlook and associated stuff (Calendar ect) plus the physical keypad.

Its an interesting combination of my previous BB (Bold 9000) and and iphone for the want of a better description!

Has the touch screen, but also the qwerty KB that I like so much, it slides...

Here tis..
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Have to say, after a couple of hours of playing, its a great advance for RIM.

Anyone else got a BB?

[matticooper]

Have to say, after a couple of hours of playing, its a great for RIMming.

Fixed that for you Haze

[Hazelb]

Bastard...

[kwijibo]

Despite anything I might have said to the contrary - I ended up ordering a Desire HD via Vodaphone ($45 infitine plan). I changed my prepaid phone to $10 a month post paid with TPG, great value! Phone will arrive early next week I hope.

Now we might need a thread on which Android apps to get

[KNAPPO]

Good work Kwiji,

As fpr Droid Apps on the DHD, ive found the following to be usefull or fun.

Apps
AVG Antivirus
3G Watchdog (Net useage meter)
QQ PLayer (Sweet video player which plays 99% of video files)
F1.com 2011
Aussie Weather Tracker
Simple Notepad (stealth camera)
Photoshop
Adobe Reader (PDF viewer)
Google Listen (Pod cast tracker)
Scanner Radio (SA emergency services scanner)
My Notes (Sticky notes reminders)

Games
Angry Birds
Mega Jump
slice It
Raging Thunder II (racing game)
Reckless Racing (racing game)
Gun Bros (huge download)
Air Attack HD
Jet Car Stunts
Moron Test
X Construct
Mobile Android (Mario Bros Rip Off)

[KNAPPO]

Kwiji, another decent app is Google Sky Map which is great for a quick way to find the southern celestial pole for those star trail photos

[kwijibo]

Cheers Knappo

Cant wait to get it now - bloody vodaphone still have it as "order being processed" though. So much for 1-2 days delivery!

[kwijibo]

I just discovered the iphone can't back up numbers to the sim card.. this sucks!

[wabbit]

Don't you sync your "contacts" with an address book of some kind on your computer/cloud?

[KNAPPO]

yay cloud.

[kwijibo]

Nope.. never occured to me to do that. After manually entering a heap of names, it may be a thought for next time

[DexterPunk]

Pretty sure you can move em onto a puter pretty easy?

[wabbit]

kwji, bloody windows people

[kwijibo]

Turns out I was able to bluetooth them over to the new phone.. so crisis averted. Even better, the phone syncs up all my facebook contacts to my phone contacts, giving everyone stupid little profile pics

[DexterPunk]

Yeah, thats on the iPhone as well.

[Exar Kun]

Turns out I was able to bluetooth them over to the new phone.. so crisis averted. Even better, the phone syncs up all my facebook contacts to my phone contacts, giving everyone stupid little profile pics

Yeah it's crazy. In 10 minutes I had synced my Desire with my gmail contacts, outlook contacts, facebook friends and flickr friends - all linked into each other.