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.
Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?
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#32I have an iPhone4 and WP7. Switched completely to WP7. On the iPhone always looking for an app. On WP7 everything just works, hardly need any apps. There still needs to be a few things created, instagram for one. But most major apps there more will come.
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#33I 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.
Just make sure it's on Cyanogen's list of supported devices. I love my MyTouch 4g that I bought for cheap on Craigslist. I'm running 2.3.4 with root access, tethering and zero crapware. And it's more stable than most manufacturer ROMs.
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#34Had an Android (1.6) for a year. After the initial excitement wore out (a week), I could barely answer a phone call since the interface bugged out everytime. The battery wouldn't last for a work day, and every app froze/crashed randomly (including contacts, phone app, and other system apps). The only good experience was MotoBlur syncing perfectly all my profiles, yet it's interface was just as crappy.
I already had a MBP and an iPod/iPad so wanted to balance things out and experiment with development. It was a terrible idea - I'm infinitely happy with my iPhone 4 now.
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#35I use WP7 because it has a lot of apps and the nice metro UI. iPhone and Android look jaded in comparison, just like a desktop UI on a phone.,
But HN is a wrong place for this poll, there is a sizeable section of people who are anti-MS on here and there are even people who call commenters who say anything pro-MS as paid shills. Numbers of wp7 phones in the US might be between 2 million and 4 million now and the developer tools are supposedly pretty good so some devs are reporting that it's easier to make apps for WP7 compared to other OSes.
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#36Obviously I do not belong to the "early-adopting crowd": I do not own a smartphone. Why? Because I find the 80 dollars per month too high price to pay for something(access to the internet) that I have almost everywhere I spent my time: work, home, bookstores. Even though I am seriously tempted everyday to get an iPhone.
I would be with you, but Virgin got me on their $25 / month unlimited data, 300 minutes plan. I hardly talk on my phone, but being able to tether from anywhere has been a big win. Now I think they charge $35 / month for the same plan.
May I ask you, how is this possible?
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#37I've recently purchased a Nexus S. I've played with Android on other devices, but I've gotta admit, Android 2.3 looks so much polished. Nexus S is probably the closest of the Androids to the iPhone in terms of minimal interfaces. I've also had an iPhone and I loved it, but the Android platform seems more hackable so I guess I'll stick with it for a while.
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#38If I feel the need for a full computer in my pocket, I will get an Android. Right now I keep the best appliance I have ever seen, the iPhone.
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#39Symbian s60v3 on a Nokia E5 here. I love the keyboard on this thing, but the OS is utter crap. Does anyone else here see huge potential in Meego and the Nokia N9? If only Elop hadn't killed it off in favor of WP7..
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#40I 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.
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.