Can anybody recommend a good smart phone?

[burn_baby_burn]

I have the BlackBerry Curve 8330. Before that I had a Treo 700 and before that a Treo 650. The Curve is the best smart phone I have ever owned. I would recommend it to anyone. Very easy to use.

I was curious about the Storm, but very skeptical about typing on the touch screen. Thanks for posting the reveiw's Rerun, it sounds like my fears were not unfounded. Also the trackball on the Curve is great. I could not imagine giving it up for a touch screen.

[GoinAllTheWay]

I have the HTC Tytn. Decent phone, certainly doesn't have me upset as others whom have an HTC product. Think HTC products are prone to memory leaks from what I've read.

What are the drawbacks of the iPhone people speak of?

[QuadCityImages]

Typing on a touch screen isn't inherently bad, but from what I've read (and experienced playing with it at Best Buy) the Storm's touch/click interface is the problem. The entire screen physically "clicks" downward when you press harder, and at least by default, that harder touch or "click" is required for each letter.

On the other hand, my LG Voyager has touch feedback, where the phone vibrates a tiny bit when you hit a touch "key." That seems like a vastly better way of making it feel like you're actually typing, like the Storm commercials talk about. If Verizon is a possibility, I would definitely check out the Voyager. I don't know much about the Dare, but it doesn't seem like anything special.

[burn_baby_burn]

Here is another, more indepth review on the Storm. Same gripes as the NY Times review. Interesting read for BlackBerry fans.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/b...-storm-review/

The selling points are easy: the phone is gorgeous to look at and hold, it's designed and backed by RIM (now almost a household name thanks to their prevalence in the business and entertainment markets), and it's packed with features that, at first glance, make it seem not only as good as the iPhone, but better. The only hitch in this plan is a major one: it's not as easy, enjoyable, or consistent to use as the iPhone, and the one place where everyone is sure they have an upper hand -- that wow-inducing clickable screen -- just isn't all that great. For casual users, the learning curve and complexity of this phone will feel like an instant turn off, and for power users, the lack of a decent typing option and considerable lagginess in software will give them pause. RIM tried to strike some middle ground between form and function, and unfortunately came up short on both.

Going into this review, we really wanted to love this phone. On paper it sounds like the perfect antidote to our gripes about the iPhone, and in some ways it lives up to those promises -- but more often than not while using the Storm, we felt let down or frustrated. Ultimately, this could be a great platform with a little more time in the oven, but right now, it feels undercooked -- and that's not enough for us.

[HotHotHeat]

Originally Posted by photon

Probably not forever, Telus is going GSM eventually I think I read somewhere.

But will there be a CDMA version of the iPhone? If they haven't done it by now...

There's lots of rumors about a CDMA iPhone in '09. Verizon Wireless would be the US carrier.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/appl...iphone-in-2009

Then again, if Telus is going GSM anyways, who knows.

[GoinAllTheWay]

I heard that Telus, along with Bells help, wanted to have a GSM network available for the 2010 games so as to cash in on all the world phones coming into Vancouver.

[Kipru]

Originally Posted by Incinerator

The Blackberry Killer: Nokia E-71, now available on Rogers:

I have this phone, it was given to me by my workplace and I haven't found anything to complain. Of course I am biased since all I try is to get our GDP to rise.

Ok, I have 1 thing to complain about the 2,5 mm stereo plug, which is just lousy. And the flash on the camera can't be turned continuously on to use as a flashlite. It doesn't have a touchscreen and your friends will laugh at you since you don't belong to the ultracool iphone gang, with their berets and fancy red wines, but it is a great phone with many functions.

[I_H8_Crawford]

Originally Posted by Kipru

I have this phone, it was given to me by my workplace and I haven't found anything to complain. Of course I am biased since all I try is to get our GDP to rise.

Ok, I have 1 thing to complain about the 2,5 mm stereo plug, which is just lousy. And the flash on the camera can't be turned continuously on to use as a flashlite. It doesn't have a touchscreen and your friends will laugh at you since you don't belong to the ultracool iphone gang, with their berets and fancy red wines, but it is a great phone with many functions.

I played with that phone a little bit the other day; I guess it's something you can get used to, but the one thing I don't like is how the directional buttons control the mouse... would have been MUCH better to have some form of trackball instead.

This is coming from a Berry user however.

[Kipru]

Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford

I played with that phone a little bit the other day; I guess it's something you can get used to, but the one thing I don't like is how the directional buttons control the mouse... would have been MUCH better to have some form of trackball instead.

This is coming from a Berry user however.

Yeah, maybe surfing the net isn't the most fluent (allthough I use product from the same company, ANSYS) thing in this phone, the cursor is slow to move. Maybe Opera Mini would increase the surfing experience, maybe not. But the size, keyboard, screen and the functions are just perfect for me. And the fact that the external part of it is made from solid steel just fits in to my (and my company's) image.