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Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Re: Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Post by Xuzz »

I'm definitely an Apple person right now, but both webOS and WP7 will get very attractive after the Pre^3 and Mango. Depending on what hardware Apple announces, I'll be very tempted to move to one of those. Apple has done a great job with iOS, but the WP7 UI is nothing short of amazingly beautiful and webOS is the most open and hacker-friendly mobile OS I've seen (most Android phones are locked down).

It's certainly an exciting time when all of the major platforms (except Android, sadly, from my experience) are such awesome pieces of software.

Re: Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Post by [deleted] »

siglesias wrote: post #30
prodigal_erik wrote: post #28

Macs are nice now if you can spend someone else's money (like I did), but iOS policies are a direct threat to the independence of our profession, and I doubt anyone's ever going to pay me enough to hold my nose and contribute to that dystopia. Also not eager to get locked into an unmanaged language everyone else dismissed decades ago. I've been meaning to get an Android from a vendor with a good attitude about Cyanog…

>> iOS policies are a direct threat to the independence of our profession And have also granted thousands entry into this profession by creating a few billion dollars in wealth.

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Re: Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Post by cageface »

mahmud wrote: post #18

I don't currently own a smartphone, but I develop industrial Android apps for tablets.

I've been writing iPad apps for a while but considering testing the Android waters. I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on the Android tablet development experience now that 3.2 is out.

Re: Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Post by cageface »

I have a cheap feature phone with no contract. I also carry an iPod touch and I'm around Wi-Fi often enough that I don't miss having a proper smartphone. With the portability of the new Macbooks Air I think I could pretty easily do without any mobile devices though.

Re: Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Post by dpcan »

srl wrote: post #7

Don't use one. (Shouldn't this be one of the options as well?) (Disclaimer: I've also never owned one.) Half of my reasoning is specific to the various platforms. I don't want to use an iPhone because of Apple's usual obsessively controlling policies. WP7 is probably not good at all (judging - I'll admit - mainly from its popularity). Blackberry and Symbian just aren't hip. Maemo/Meego is too hip. I've never even /he…

You would be surprised at the elegance a smartphone adds to the things you already do. Think of fast forwarding a voice mail, or sending an email, or scrolling back through text messages, or typing in the name of your bank in an unknown city and having 5 close locations magically get pin pointed.

Re: Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Post by huhtenberg »

One option appears to be missing. All my friend's emails are always signed with

  Sent from my Zune
(edit) Bah! 0 points. A gentle guideline then, perhaps?

  Downvote only if you lack a sense of humour.
This is the best email sig I've seen in ages. Still tempted to adopt it myself.

Re: Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Post by sixtofour »

johnny22 wrote: post #40
sixtofour wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still like the idea of an Android better than an iPhone, but the foot dragging of Samsung and Sprint to update the Epic makes me at least think of changing to iPhone, or another Android manufacturer, or another carrier. That's a mighty expensive chunk of plastic to be abandoned (as I assume Sprint/Samsung will, based on their non-enthusiastic update) after a year or two (again, assumption/prediction).

my understanding is that gingerbread will be released for the epic 4g. I'm not sure when, i've just seen a bunch of leaked builds on various android websites. Gingerbread will probably be the last official release for the epic, but i assume a cyanogenmod port will be finished eventually.

"Gingerbread will probably be the last official release for the epic"

Anything connected to the internet needs regular updates to keep up with threats, never mind prettier icons. I got Windows XP updates for a long, long time.

I'm really rethinking the sensibility of an expensive smart phone for my world.

Re: Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Post by tortilla »

KeithMajhor wrote: post #6

I have an Android phone and recently bought an iPad. After experiencing both platforms I think I'll be buying an iPhone 5 next. If I we're going to do android again I'd get a phone where I could install stock android (like the Nexus S). Oh also, I really hope WP7 doesn't take off. The new wave of smart phones run webkit almost exclusively right now and I'd like it to stay that way.

One reason I'll stick with iPhone is I get amazing customer service from Apple. I had an issue with the sleep button on my iPhone 4 and they replaced it free of charge and out of warranty. The button became mushy because of the case I was using. My gf broke her screen on a 3GS (her fault), and they replaced it no charge.

For my Nexus One, I had to deal with HTC support because the charging connection pins became loose and eventually broke (I might have pushed in the plug upside-down). It was still in warranty and they charged me $195 for the service. I didn't expect HTC to replace for free, but would have won them tons of points.

Re: Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?

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Post by freakwit »

fhars wrote: post #31

No other phone has feature parity with my four years old symbian phone. It has a physical Ctrl key for use in putty (sadly, no Meta). But apart fron that, yeah, Nokia can't program their way out of a paper bag.

On my SGS (not II) I can use volume-down as a ctrl key in terminal emulator.
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