Best Smartphone?

Getting a new phone contract & it's the choice of 3 phones

Blackberry Curve 8520

HTC Desire

Samsung Galaxy S

Never had a smart phone before - what would people go for?

Liking the look of the HTC Desire based on reviews, Blackberry not really featuring.
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Only those 3 on offer :)
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BB curve sucks, Galaxy S is oké and the Desire is just great
i would go for the BB,
so u can be BB Connected FUK YEH
and u can ping with boys ^^
Everyone has BB Curve 8520 nowadays so I won't recommend taking that one :p
HTC or galaxy S
Galaxy S slightly larger screen & extra minutes - I've seen the HTC Desire in action which was sweet but never played around with a Galaxy.

Gah choices
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i own the galaxy myself and it's really fast.. the screen is rly good and sharp.. dunno about the HTC...

Have you already watched some reviews on YT or unpackings with comments?
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Reading reviews too - but a community of geeks is usually a fairly decent pointer =)
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yes :ppp but it seems like 99.999999 % of the community owns a desire :ppp
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HTC's are just as good, my brother owns an HTC Incredible (Verizon exclusive here in the states) and I have a few friends with various other HTC droids. I personally own a Galaxy S too, I love it :D
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i also had to choose between a HTC and the samsung galaxy ;p
HTC are good no doubt
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just dont pick the galaxy because it has swype.
i have the google nexus one (which is quite similar to a desire) and i installed swype on mine too.

From these,i would recommend the desire.
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What he said! :p
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mr iphone 4 ze :p swel lekker! ik doen et hier me nen ipod, ook wel nice
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welken Ipod hebde? :p
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Ipod Touch 3de generatie 32GB.

Echt bangelijk ding ze :) vooral voor op te staan en te gaan slapen, kunde nog op u gemak in u bed wa surfen etc en zo wakker worden.
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ja ik heb hem ook :p

is idd wel nice ma ik gebruik dieje ni zoveel meer omdak nu toch ook nen Iphone heb :p
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hmm ja dan is da idd vrij useless :) verkoopt diee dan best e, dan verdiende der nog iets aan
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mja ma als mennen iphone dan is kapot is ofzo :p of voor op reis te gaan isda altijd nog wel handig :p
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mjah swaar, reserve e :)
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true.. eindelijk die kutexaams bijna gedaan man :p
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bij mji ist nog 2weken ze :/ en de laatste week is de hardste jammer genoeg :( kkijk al uit naart einde, gaan skieen ;D
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mm ikke nog maar tot de woensdag das wel nice :p

GL nog ;)
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thxs gij ook ;)!
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between those 3

blackberry is imediately out

and then personaly I would choose
htc desire
I'd say get the iPhone 4, i got mine about 6 months ago and can't live without it now. However, as you don't have that option i'd probably go for the HTC, as i'm not a huge blackberry fan...
da lulz htc desire and galaxy S >>>>>> iphone 4 :F
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I don't think so personally, i've got mates with both the galaxy and the desire and i much prefer the interface and the general feel/look of the iphone :p As i said, i couldn't live without it :)
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well galaxy s is faster better bigger cheaper etc
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I've got a decent deal for my iPhone which im happy with and the speed of everything is great. It loads my emails/webpages etc extremely fast and the display is amazing. I just prefer it :)
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well its nice etc but thats are facts :p
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Yeah they may be facts, but that doesn't change the fact that for me, the speed/functionality/design etc etc of the iPhone 4 suits my needs perfectly. I also think its the nicest looking phone around too and i love the fact that my ipod/itunes/app store shit is easy to access all the time :p

You're not gonna change my mind! :D
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man when u are high as fuck and u look at this

image: earth-universe-comparison

u think wow man this is awesome we are piece of shit and then theers the eclipses, eclipses are sick man look the Suns distance from the Earth is about 400 times the Moons distance, and the Suns diameter is about 400 times the Moons diameter and u think wow man we so special but no man then u look again at the pic and wonder wow dude why we all fight and shit:S? we are liek not even an atom and we have diferences and stuff why does this happend man? then i think about life man life is nothing either, one of those blowsup and u and your iphones and shit are gone. man mobile mena sshit u no

and iphone is only good if u have a vagina
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even my nexus one has a better cpu than your iphone4.
i'm assuming the desire has the same.

you're just happy with your iphone because it's a fashion icon (which, it isn't anymore.)
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I actually don't have it 'cus it's a fashion icon. I don't show it off or go on about having one, i just like the iPhone because of the things it has on it. I'm so used to the interface after using an ipod touch for years that i just like it :)

Its good enough for the things i use it for, so the fact it may not be as powerful doesn't really bother me all that much.
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just pointed out you were extremely biased towards your pretty little iphone.
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I'm not biased at all, I've said I would pick an iPhone over any of those listed above simply because i prefer it. I've used all three of the phones mentioned and I like both the HTC and the Samsung. They're both great to look at and the speed/functionality is also good, i just prefer the iphone. Personal preference :)
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eventho arguing is pointless, i'll reply just for the sake of it, dont take this all too seriously.

Quote by youget the iPhone 4

This kind of contradicts what you said here, i wouldn't read this as personal preference.
If this was indeed completely unbiased, it would mean the iphone4 is indeed a better product than all three mentioned. I don't think there is a clear winner.

as i said before, this is absolutely pointless so ill just go back to doing what i was doing before.
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Well yeah, maybe it is slightly biased then. I much prefer the iphone 4 to the others, however I would still not tell anyone not to get any of the ones mentioned above. After using all three I came to the conclusion that the iPhone was my personal favourite, regardless of the fact it may be less powerful etc. As you said though, I don't think he would really be disappointed if he picked any of them, so the "argument" is pointless, I agree.

The HTC/Samsung are both amazing phones and i would be happy having either. I'm just an iPhone fan and am very happy with it.

EDIT: The fact the iPhone 4 was slightly cheaper as I could get it as an upgrade on my existing contract also probably swayed my decision. I'd be happy with any of them :)
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Not directly comparable, the A4 is designed to run iOS specifically, its optimized for their code. Also no one ACTUALLY knows how fast the processor is, just assumed a bit downclocked from the iPad's speed. Yes your Nexus One and the Desire both have a Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250
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Quoteits optimized for their code


No. It's a fucking ARM Cortex A8 core, which is not optimized in any way that makes it better for Apple than for other applications.
Don't use fancy words when you don't know what they mean.

Although you're partly right; we don't actually know what the clock frequency of the A4 is in the iPhone 4 - we do know this; "The resulting core, dubbed "Hummingbird", is able to run at far higher clock rates than other implementations while remaining fully compatible with the Cortex-A8 design provided by ARM" (from wikipedia).

This seems to indicate that the optimizations you are talking about do not apply to instructions-per-cycle-performance, but rather just increasing the number of cycles, the fact that the Snapdragon is also an ARM Cortex A8 core should lead us to believe that given the clock frequency, comparing these should give a reasonable metric of the relative performance.

It has, however, nothing to do with the A4 being "optimized for their code".
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htc desire or galaxy S imo got galaxy myself and chosen it over htc :P screen is awesome you can even watch movies on it :D + writing sms with swype is just fun :D but its all up to you ^^
Depends on how often will you be using your smartphone. I use my moto droid quite often (got inet plan so I often browse web and check mail @ bus, sometimes I even pay my bills :P ) and I wouldn't take a smartphone without a physical keyboard. I mean, typing a bank account number or a mail reply/comment on crossfire on a shit virtual keyboard is beyond consideration for me - that being said, even though I am usually an android fan, I would consider blackberry if your aim is mainly usability and effectiveness ;)

Still, blackberry looks like a typical plain phone compared to android devices - so if you'd only use it from time to time, and want something more standing out, you should be fine with either the samsung or htc desire (though I've only used the samsung from those two - it's quite decent - but I saw some cheaper htcs and they were fine, too ). For texting virtual keyboard is enough, and after some accustoming for other things. From those two I think I would prefer the samsung - swipe's quite cool for texts, amoled looks okayish, and it doesn't feature htc sense, which I personally don't like, but that's just a wild guess ;)
'AMOLED looks okish' lolwut? It looks great >_>
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Compared to mine motorola droid screen, which has the same resolution, I am more used to mine, and actually prefer display on it. AMOLED are better for the battery life and stuff, but as for brightness/colors - I prefer LCDs, and from what I've read I am not the only one. To be honest I don't even know why super AMOLEDs are supposed to look better than LCDs? ;)
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Looks as good as an iPhone screen to me, I mean I don't even pretend to be able to tell much of a difference, not an HD freak. I have it at lowest brightness and never had any issues with reading the screen, anywhere.
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Yeah, I know, it is a really decent screen, but that's not because of it being an AMOLED - what's good about it, is that it's led, and still almost as readable as LCD :P It's mainly the resolution that's so good about it.
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iPhone 4!
Can't really go wrong with any of those, Galaxy and Desire are perhaps a step up. I have a desire myself and it's pretty awesome.
I got a Samsung Captivate (aka Galaxy S) last week, I love it :D I've used iPhones and other android devices, they're all good, I was able to get mine for $50 (wasn't allowed to apply discount to iPhones lol) so was totally worth it. I rooted and flashed to a custom Froyo rom, runs faster and in general works better :D Can't really comment on how useful Swype is, used it once and then decided I liked the Samsung keyboard more anyways
Go for the samsung.

The bb is the cheapest (like 229€) dont want the cheapest bb do we?
htc desire is slightly outdated, there are 2 new desires (z and hd)
Heard some good stories about the Galaxy S

Prices as I can find them:
BB: € 229
Desire: € 353
Galaxy S: € 464

Desire and Galaxy S both run on Android(which is a big plus imo).
Galaxy S is a great phone but the HTC just gives you more for your money.
more for your money? how is the Desire in anyway 'more' than a Galaxy S?
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It is less, but it gives you better quality in proportion to the price.
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HTC Desire > *
IPHONE ofc
touchscreen = crap
dESIRE HD
Desire ... I would say iPhone, and the Galaxy is just ... well massive, so yeh the HTC phone
Got a Samsung Captivate, a Galaxy S phone, and I love it. A friend of mine who has an Iphone said he likes my phone better than his :D.
So many besserwissers, I recommend getting some friends with the respective phones to try them out somehow.

Personally, I prefer the Android platform to iOS, but that might just be my stubbornness (I generally dislike Apple), and there's no guarantee that you won't find it awesome. I have no experience with BlackBerry. Owning an HTC Hero, one thing I'm seriously missing is a physical keyboard. I miss it more than I thought I would, perhaps you'll do that aswell.

But oh well, that's just me, as I said, go try them out, this is to a very large degree a matter of taste. And the CPU speed discussions are nonsense (even though i partly participated in it), seeing as this is an embedded device: If it's snappy enough, then it's snappy enough. Any faster processor is a waste of power consumption and money.
Yah played with the iPhone (not on offer) & HTC which was sweet Don't know anyone with the Samsung Galaxy.

The Blackberry just looks shit <o/
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I know the HTC is pretty decent, I've also drooled on the Samsung. They're both awesome phones as far as I can tell. I don't really like HTC's policies though (not upgrading older phones to the recent Android platforms, even though it's perfectly viable technically speaking), and as the Sense UI isn't really that great, so the Samsung is a really strong candidate in this battle in my opinion.

But go find it in a store or something, I know how bad it hurts to find out you bought the wrong phone.

Sorry if shit don't make sense, beer is awesome!
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I got htc desire hd two days ago, its just.. awesome :D
i have had a desire for a while now and im still happy with it, if you can get a desire hd it's pretty top notch but its the same software either way!
Htc Desire HD
If you have to choose from these 3...
I'll go for the Samsung Galaxy S
Apple dude is so stupid , he needs to get out more , I have Galaxy S , MotoroLa Cliq XT , New Blackberry and Iphone guess which one doesn't get used? Iphone! android apps are mostly free compared to Apple, i can't do all the things i used to do on my Android phone like Tax calculator or percentages to charge customers , AK notepad , Tether Inet Pdanet, track my budget , there are similar apps on stupid itunes but you have to PAY in Android market they're FREE!!! you must be mentally challenged to buy apple product oh wait you follow the crowd to be cool kid .
you'd pay for apps for your iphone?

you must be mentally challanged to not jailbreak your iphone
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thinking about that , idk if the carrier i use will work after jb . Will only jb because of mywi !
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samsusng
image: Black

best, just pay 400 for this bb in stead of buying that shitty curve??
Specwise go for the Samsung Galaxy S.

In terms of build quality I think the HTC Desire and Galaxy S are pretty much equal.

In terms of pre-installed software, the HTC Desire comes with Sense (basically a bunch of widgets which is quite nice. But if you don't care about what's pre-installed and are willing to try out different apps, you could as well go for the Galaxy S.

I'd only go for the blackberry if you really want a keyboard and can't get your provider to sell you an HTC Desire Z.

Or wait a few months, there were a lot of good smartphones announced a week ago at CES, such as the Motorola Atrix (one hell of a smartphone) or Sony Xperia arc (beautiful device imo).
Don't buy a new phone now. CES just finished and there are a few dual core phones which will be out soon. Wait till then, and maybe you can get one of them or get one from your list above at a cheaper price.

Wait a month or two.
Google's Nexus S - made by Samsung -

image: nexus-s-sfr
Got the curve and it's a really decent phone, but not amazing. I hear good things about the desire, and that's probably what I'd choose from that list, but I don't think you'll go wrong with any of them.
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