Nokia e71

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Looks pretty cool. Anyone got one?

[Malingering BA]

I haven't.

Looked at one but I'm a tightwad and the network wanted too high a premium for the E71.

[ruth11]

Looks pretty cool. Anyone got one?

Looks like a blackberry

And hence doesn't appeal to me at all.

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But then I might change my mind if I saw one in the flesh - as is my prerogative as a girly.

I had the iphone 3g - liked it, but wasn't convinced so it went back. Had a quick play with the HTC Diamond - didn't like the interface. Now waiting for the Nokia N96 and Samsung Omnia before I finally make my choice.

[voodooflux]

Had a quick play with the HTC Diamond - didn't like the interface. Now waiting for the Nokia N96 and Samsung Omnia before I finally make my choice.

I tried the HTC Diamond but also sent mine back - the performance of the interface was pretty bad out-of-the-box (can be improved with a few hacks though) and the battery life was appalling. I also don't think it looked as good as I was expecting, and the build quality is certainly not up to that of the iPhone. The Omnia looks interesting though...

[ChimpMaster]

I thought the iphone 3G is quite good. A little gimmicky perhaps but web surfing is great on it... I was surfing all the way on the train today for an hour.

Some features are rubbish, such as text messaging and the camera. I guess it just depends on what you can live without and what features you really want.

[poser]

I tried the HTC Diamond but also sent mine back - the performance of the interface was pretty bad out-of-the-box (can be improved with a few hacks though) and the battery life was appalling. I also don't think it looked as good as I was expecting, and the build quality is certainly not up to that of the iPhone. The Omnia looks interesting though...

ive changed the software on my diamond, replaced the t-mob Rom with a cooked one from xda developers upgraded the radio now it runs like a dream! you can customise the interface and my batt lasts me 2 days with about 1.5 hours of calls and surfing and my 3G is on all the time.

[voodooflux]

ive changed the software on my diamond, replaced the t-mob Rom with a cooked one from xda developers upgraded the radio now it runs like a dream! you can customise the interface and my batt lasts me 2 days with about 1.5 hours of calls and surfing and my 3G is on all the time.

That sounds like a major improvement. I did try a lot of the hacks from xda developers with respect to user interface performance, with some good results.

A friend of mine bought a third-party extended battery recently, but it makes the device much chunkier.

[gadgetman]

I'm seriously considering the N82. Anyone got one?

[ruth11]

I thought the iphone 3G is quite good. A little gimmicky perhaps but web surfing is great on it... I was surfing all the way on the train today for an hour.

Some features are rubbish, such as text messaging and the camera. I guess it just depends on what you can live without and what features you really want.

I liked it too, for the exact reasons you mentioned, also loved the interface, the GPS was good, the ipod obviously good. But I want to see the Omnia before I decide for sure. Lack of MMS and bluetooth file exchange, not being able to run multiple apps (or maybe even close things off to save memory etc - like Safari, it always opened on the last page I was on rather than the homepage) are all things that made me unsure. I may well go back to it in a few months, but will certainly jailbreak it if I do.

[NickFitz]

(or maybe even close things off to save memory etc - like Safari, it always opened on the last page I was on rather than the homepage) are all things that made me unsure.

You don't need to close things off to save memory - it does it automatically:

"There is no concept of launching or quitting — there is only switching. This illusion is maintained by keeping launch and quit times as brief as possible. General rule: When an iPhone app quits, whatever you’re currently doing is saved; when it re-launches, whatever you were doing is restored...

"... The profound simplicity of the iPhone user interface stems in part from the complete lack of interface elements for managing processes. There is no task manager or memory meter; if you want to know what’s running, the answer is simply whatever app it is that you’re looking at. Even the blessed apps that do run in the background, like Mail and Safari, must be prepared to quit at any time if the system requires more memory for the frontmost app. (That’s why Safari’s tabs occasionally blank out — the URLs for each tab are remembered, but the contents must be reloaded the next time Safari launches.)"

- John Gruber, One App at a Time

IIRC Steve Jobs reserved a chunk of his iPhone-presenting keynote at WWDC for deriding Windows Mobile in the most scathing terms for being so braindead as to require a task manager on a handheld device.

I've got a Windows Mobile PDA for testing on IE Mobile, and I always thought it was utterly ridiculous that apps I'd stopped using kept sitting in the background, consuming resources that could be used by the task at hand. Just my two-penn'orth, but apparently Steve agrees with me