What cell phone do you own?

The windows 7 mobile UI vids I’ve seen look pretty cool. Very clean. They’re touting a “No chromey” 3D look to anything. The hardware demonstrator looks to be pretty clean too. I just can’t see myself switching out of the apple + itunes ecosystem though. I’ve paid for enough music and TV through itunes to switch me and my fiance over to something else.

I have an iPhone 3Gs.

There was a piece on NPR last week about the Windows Phone 7 Series. Despite having an awful name it looks decent, but i’m sticking with Android. By the time they release the Phone 7, fall I think, it will probably be antiquated.

In the interview they asked about the terrible name and Microsoft’s marketing folks thought that customers identify with Windows 7 being a quality operating system so they thought the name Windows Phone 7 Series correlated with that feeling. I think that’s a complete marketing fail on several levels, but mostly because desktop/laptop OS customers are a different market segment than mobile device customers. So what are they saying, this is a phone for people that like and use Windows 7? Stupid.

I broke my first cell phone like LMO broke his. It was in my pocket, with the screen NOT against my leg. I was rushing through the wood shop and walked too closely to a table saw… crunch (bumped the table, not the saw!!!). That was 9 years ago and to this day I still make sure when my phone is in my pocket, the screen is against my thigh.

I have been on the 2 year upgrade cycle, always getting the bare minimum as I didn’t text much and my phone was just that, a phone. It always happened that the damn batteries charge starts to fall off after 18 months.

Interesting story: it was awesome when my razr started refusing to charge. It would appear full, but die after 4 hours. The phone was almost 2 years old. I took it into the verizon store, and the employee told me that the software had to be “upgraded” so that it would “allow” it to charge again. They plugged it in, boop-beep-bing and wallah, good as new. Clever clever. A built in software feature to make the phone not work after a certain time period maybe? I’m glad I wasn’t sold a new phone / battery. I asked if I could’ve upgraded the software OTA on my own (like the programming feature, *228 on verizon) and she said no, only they could do it in-store.

I currently have a moto droid (running a custom firmware). I support the idea of android and live in the google world anyway, so that the live syncing of email, contacts, calendars, picasa photos, etc. is really sweet. It’s a solid phone so far, but the main reason I decided to jump to a smart phone is I got sick of carrying around my phone, my ipod, my camera, my video camera when I needed it and needing a GPS for my car. And charging them all. And syncing, and managing memory and blah blah blah. I now have one device that does all this good enough.

WP7S (?) looks really cool, but it’s so far off, and it’s windows… :frowning:

I have like the oldest model of Nokia there is. I’ve always wanted a touch scree phone. What’s the best model out there? I’m eyeing the Samsung Corby. :slight_smile:

I recently took a look at the palm pre and palm pre +; I like the operating system/apps/etc., but I couldn’t stand how the product felt in my hand…it felt like a toy!

So, I finally got a decent phone phone from Verizon, the Nokia Shade. Doesn’t even have a camera, but pretty good design for free. Of course, the standardized corporate photo perspectives didn’t show off the main design highlight (continuous surface when open), so it was my design duty to take a picture of it myself. =)
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Looks like there’s a camera in the second pic. Or do you have some cheapo carrier free model. Curious.

R

I got the cheapo model. It’s Verizon, but no camera and no extra faceplates (default comes w/ a few extra colors you can swap w/ the black).

Own a k790a from Sony Ericsson, will upgrade to their T700 in the future.Owned in the past the POS Motocrapper ROKR.

Brendan

I honestly have not owned a cellphone in more than a Year now,
no I am not im 22 years old :stuck_out_tongue:
and im loving every moment of it, though im pretty far from the city in a village ( ISD,India)
reason_ I cannot have distractions, as I have a VERY short attention span, you should try it, from my parents to my friends everyone thinks im going to be the next “into the wild” or something…

but the day I come across the old MOTOROLA rotational slider or AURA(I wish) for a good bargain I dont ill think twice. :stuck_out_tongue:
just trying to stand out or love? i dont know.

Any suggestions for a quad-band, good-looking, inexpensive smartphone with aGPS (which also works without network) that fits in trouser pockets?

BTW, there’s an ICON on mobile phones.

As a designer I’m supposed to say I have an iPhone, but I have a Droid 3rd Gen Global (will be 2 yrs old [ie, dinosaur in March of 2013] on Verizon. The global features have been helpful when traveling and it WAS super quick when new, but I swear Google is either accelerating their refinements on 4.1 (ice cream sundae or what not) and leaving us 2.3ers in the dust or Android is falling apart because my phone has begun freezing and rebooting on occasion for no reason. I suppose because its nearly 2 yrs old it SHOULD be acting weird to further support the marketing of 2 year contracts. Oh well.

I intend to move to a Windows 8 phone at the next 2 yr. upgrade - I’m interested to see how well they integrate data between Windows 8 PCs, tablets and phones.

Also - smartphones have added an entire category that hadn’t been considered before they came along - useful 2nd life. My kids each have 1st gen Droids (old ones we didn’t need after endless 2 yr upgrades) and they are as operative as an iPod (everything but calling). They still download apps & games on them, text on them, watch netflix on them and the only $$ they’ve ever required was a new battery for each (only $6 on eBay).

I second that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4UdrEPJHnE
I might buy out my current contract, get a Nokia Lumia 800 for £13.5/month and upgrade to Windows 8 for £25.

I have the Lumia 800 plus Windows 8 Beta on my tablet. It’s neat how it works together… a lot of the contacts, office files, and skydrive content is shared pretty seamlessly. It makes the tablet like a big phone almost. It’s the beta, so some parts are disabled, but looking forward to upgrading.

PS I love the Lumia 800 hardware and Windows OS, some of the nicest stuff out there imho

Had this for 4 years on T-Mobile, constantly made fun of by other designers, but then, I’ve saved $1,000’s not upgrading to each iPhone and paying the contract fees…

I dunno, I like the iPhone and could easily afford one and the G1 is certainly showing it’s age in terms of interface speed, but it still works, never drops calls, and is super solid. In the end, I just use my iPad for everything aside calls.

I am grandfathered into unlimited text/data with T-Mobile from my 2004 plan and while I can get an iPhone on their network they won’t support it. Right now I’m leaning towards the Galaxy Note II.

Galaxy Nexus from Samsung and Google. Too bad it does not support all codecs (open source) and it has no SD slot in it. For the rest I’m quiet happy with it, especially that Android is flexible.

Nokia C3

I might be getting a second phone soon. Office is dumping land lines.

I’ve got a 4s and I’ve been torn between upgrading to the 5 or switching over to a Windows Phone, probably a Nokia Lumia. Anybody out there go from iOS to Windows Phone? Would love to hear from you.

I did… and it was a good experience.

The possitive: Windows is a lot quicker to navigate, and just check messages, etc, without having to drill down into the apps. The WP experience is a great alternative to iOS, and it doesn’t really take a lot (or steal) from it… it’s a fresh alternative. I personally love the Lumia 800 I choose, it’s a little more organic and feels good in my hand, not such an industrial coldly precise ID as the iPhone (my opinion). Nokia has some nice useful apps, not at all like the bloatware skins like carriers and manufacturers put on Android. And it has some nice integration with Windows 8, like contacts, SMS, etc. Skydrive and MS Office are also really handy

the negative: Whenever you hear of a cool new app, it’s usually only on iOS or Android… they come to WP last it seems and some never do. Some parts of the OS don’t make sense (but you could say that for all of them)… two examples are not being able to do screen grabs and not being able to take a business address you found on in maps to adding it as a contact. NFC doesn’t seem to be well integrated yet, some of the coolest stuff isn’t available. You still don’t have drag&drop access to music and files - you have to use Zune, which is nicer than itunes, but still a pain. The Keyboard is more tightly spaced than iOS too

I think you’d like it after a short adjustment period - took me about 2 weeks

The new update to Zune (now called Xbox Music) is supposed to be pretty hot as well… I use a mac for my work laptop (including mac mail, calendar, and address book, though of course it is all coming from a windows based webmail), and I wonder if the contacts will sync.