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Besides my monthly bill, I got my iPhone for free.

*facepalm*

100$ a month for unlimited Internet/texting/phone calls...

Not a bad deal.

Right, since words don't work, let's see if pictures do.





GEDDIT?

I can recommend my 5800 wholeheartedly to you, Zad. It can do pretty much anything the never phones can do, for a lower price. They call it the iphone killer for a reason. Check it out.

iPhone killer =

yeah yeah I geddit.

I'm not trying to convince you anymore. Just defending my choice.

Agreed. Although I've only had one other brand mp3 player it was basically terrible, and from hearing about/playing around with friends' they seem worse.



I use winamp for mine. I tend to just sync it because iPod's are you know awesome and have way more space than I could ever fill up with music I listen to regularly.



You hold down the button and play or menu and the button or something like that.

My only experience has been with a Sansa e260 .. and after a few years of use the dial on the front is kind of jittery which makes it harder to scroll to a specific item in a list. Otherwise it works OK.

I've been a proud Blackberry abuser for quite some time now and while its media capabillities could be cosidered by some as "lacking", i think theyre quite allright, i have no need or interest in watching videos on the go, so i cant say how good it is for videoplayback, but the music player is simple and efficient, i mainly use it for lsitening music in my car and it actually does what is expected with no hassle.

Yesterday i had the opportunity to buy a used 32gb Ipod touch, fairly cheap and in mint condition too, i figured that since people always say Ipods are media kings and how BB's are still playing catch up with apple in that deppartment, that even if its other features were crap, the worst thing that could happened was that i ended up with a big music player with a huge screen, so i bought it, after a day of being playing with the device here are my thoughts:

My experience with Ipods has been pretty scarce but the few times i had used one the first thing i noticed was how disorganized the music list was, all of my friends ipods and i do mean all of them, have a shit of a mess in their devices, with duplicated songs, artists and albums, seriously why cant the Igod understand that "Iron Maiden" and "Iron maiden" are the same fucking band? and why would you need coverflow if 50 % of your albums doesnt show the fucking cover? well after transfering my songs to my device i cant honestly say that the answer is that people are just stupid, organizing your songs is super fucking easy with itunes, even more so than the way i used to do it with Windows media player so big props to that.

That brings me to my first and biggest gripe with the device wich was oddly itunes asswell, i dont like that whole sycnhing way of transferring files and also that the device is tied to an itunes folder, that just sucks IMO and i find it fairly unnecessary and limitating, can i live with the software? yes i can, am i happy with it? well kinda, it does have some cool features but it is mainly apple's way of thinking that they know whats best for me, that bothers me.

Then there are the "touch/pda" features of the ipod, well they're cute; pinch too zoom, internet browser, calendar, mail, apps, etc. but i dont find them essential, one thing though is that there are tons of apps out there so if apps are your thing then this device is god, some of them are cool and some of them are idiotic but i for one dont see myself expending too much time with them.

In conclussion im not sorry i bought the ipod touch, but i cant say im hooked on the device either, it has some cool features and the big screen is a plus but there is nothing i want to do with it that i wasnt able to do with my BB anyway, and im not sure if its features are worth the hassle of carryin another device with me, who knows maybe i'll just leave the touch in my car.

For similar price restriction reasons as the ones you mentioned, I imported mine from Sweden. I know that "import from sweden" and "saving money" normally dont go together, but even with shipping it was way cheaper than buying an iPhone.

It's Red Bull branded, but it's designed by a chinese company called Huawei. They call it the RBM2.



It came with Android 1.5 as standard and with some toiling and tinkering I managed to update to 2.1.

Which now gives me a phone as good or better than iPhone for oh-so-much less $$.

what makes it "better" ?

Well, fewer restrictions basically.

Google aren't nazi's about what's allowed in their app store, for instance. Everything's fair game.

Also, Android 2.1 supports flash.

ok I give you the flash, but there are what 1 million apps in the appel app store? so apple being strict on what goes in doesn't bother me.

Yeah, but as I said before, that's just the here-and-now.

iPhone 4 is rolling out as we speak, and will do a bunch of things Android 2.1 cannot....for now.

And so on and so forth it will go with companies all over the world releasing shit that is sweeter than the shit that came before. And you will always, ALWAYS get kinda screwed coz no matter what you buy, something better is 2 months away.

So all that really matters is you're happy with your phone, I'm happy with mine. Yay.

EDIT: I know I kind of started the whole apple sucks thing in this thread but I just wanted to end it too because I realised I really dont care that much, heh.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... gnal-apple

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The problem I would have would this would be their policy of redundancy, which basically muscles any freeware programmers out of the game. What I mean is that if I came up with a great free word processor, they would never allow it because they must please the corporate sector and allow them to monopolize their market before they let any amateurs or hobbyists do anything. That is the bullshit Apple way of thinking. The same way of thinking that leads to 149$ computer updates that are more or less mandatory if you own one of their OS.

And for the record, I've always liked what Bill Gates was doing. He gets it. Give them a platform and let them do the rest. Sadly, I think as it has grown bigger and out of his hands this approach is taking a back seat to windows insisting on managing every single application for you and telling you how and even if it runs (yes, they muscle out their competition by claiming their websites are a security risk, for example) But old Bill was an old Pirate back in the day himself, and I think there has always been an unspoken code at MS, that if you are going to steal it, it might as well be MS. Personally, I thinkm Gates is going on the premise of half the consumer market buying it is outstanding and more or less sticking the costs with the business sector. I seriously doubt MS cares that I have a pirated copy of XP, running on a machine that I own a ME license for and the bottom line is that There is really no choice when buying a new PC. They don't give a shit if you pirate outdated software to update a legacy machine with.

If you are in college, chances are, every single current windows product is available to you right now for 100% free, with unlimited liscenes.

And that is the way phones are going to go too. They are going to be a super-expensive business solution that the consumer market mimicks in hopes of getting everyone to own one, just like Computers started out. If you work for TI or are a doctor, a thousand dollar mini-almost-super computer is invaluable

YEAAAAH

waiting for my T-Mobile Pulse to arrive. Cheers for the advice, you all.

That is very true. But, for the people who aren't scientists who just want a computer to function without ANY issues, MAC is the way to go. I've had this thing for 2 years and it still runs like new. I have not had 1 issue with it. Battery life lasts forever, it is light and easy to carry around the house (or to a coffee shop ), it holds a shit ton of music, and it is extremely user friendly.

I love my PC as I'm sitting in a coffeshop, mooching the internets.