How to choose the best cell phone for you - Gotmadskillzson's Blog

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How to choose the best cell phone for you

Posted on April 9, 2010 at 03:49 PM.

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So it is that time of year when all the cell phone carriers have their media events showcasing their upcoming killer phones coming out during the summer and fall season. This year it will be even more harder to determine what phone to get.

The droid os is in full swing, people are starting to understand the capabilities of it and apps are coming for it be the thousands per a month. For years Iphone was king. But came last fall the Droid came out and punched it right in the mouth.

Then came February and the Nexus one from T-mobile came out, featuring the latest version of the droid OS, 2.1. Not only did it feature it, but it came out with the fastest cpu ever in a cell phone, a 1ghz cpu. This allowed webpages and programs to load super fast. Live wall paper that moved, 7 home screens.

However the Nexus One reign was very short, because in March T-mobile released another beast, the HTC HD2, sporting a 4.3 inch screen, the biggest screen to date. The only downside to this super phone was the Windows 6.5 operating system on it. Which in itself has it own drawbacks here and there.

Yesterday Apple announced their 4.0 OS will be coming out this summer, which will allow a lot of things, with multi-tasking being the main important one. However they didn't say if they are coming out with a new design for their Iphone, which by now, compared to other phones looks very plain and dated.

This summer Sprint is coming out with the HTC Evo 4g, which is basically the HTC HD2 running android 2.1. However this will be the 1st 4g phone and it will have built in Wimax. Being this is new frontiers here for cell phones, we shall see how this goes.

Verizon suppose to be coming out with their new toys this summer too. That being the Motorola Shadow, which is rumoured to be really the Nexus 2 or Droid 2. Suppose to have either a 4.3 screen or a 4.1 screen.

But anyway, as you can see, the trend for this summer is big screens. Everybody is jumping on the big screen bandwagon along with 1ghz processors. Mainly because cell phone companies have realized how much media people actually watch on their cell phones nowadays. That really stems from the fact people have to travel much further to work now then they did just 5 years ago.

With all this you might say well which cell phone should I get ?

That really depends on what you need it for. If you just a light cell phone user, then a smart phone isn't for you. If you like tons of apps and don't mind paying for them or don't mind you can't customize your phone, then the Iphone is for you.

If you crave customization, I recommend getting a Droid phone. There are about a dozen or so Droid phones now on all carriers. However the Nexus One on T-mobile and the Motorola Droid on Verizon currently is the most powerful of the Droid phones.

Another thing to consider is what carrier you currently have a contract with. Not all phones are on all carriers. However more then likely the carrierr you have with a similiar like phone that is only on another carrier. Kind of like how Sprint is coming out with their own version of T-mobile HTC HD2. Or how T-mobile came out with the Nexus One which is similiar to the Motorola Droid from Verizon.

Breaking contracts is costly....So I wouldn't recommend doing that. However you can have 2 contracts from 2 carriers at the same time. Lot of my co workers do. You can have the least amount of minutes on one phone that you barely going to use and have the most amount on your main phone.

What ever you do choose, do your resource on the phone YOURSELF. Don't go by word of mouth. Just go to what ever carrier that phone is comig out for CORPORATE store and ask to see the phone. They always have it there on display somewhere or some worker have it on them already. The reason I said corporate store is because most of the tme Walmart or Best Buy , won't have the phone on display yet if it is a new product, might take them a few weeks or so to get it.

Like currently where I live the only place to see the HTC HD2 in person is at a T-mobile store, neither Walmart or Best Buy sell them yet here.

Happy cell phone hunting !

Comments

# 1 Steve_OS @ Apr 9

Nice read. I have a DROID, but looking to make that leap to the VZW iPhone when they finally drop.

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