I am looking for a new smartphone to replace my Skypephone S2 with emphasis
on
/mail with ability to read mail attachments (Office documents)
/Wi-Fi with ability to use Skype and/or other VOIP clients, mainly abroad
/camera capable of reasonable quality standard size pictures
/Web browsing for useful info on the go (timetables, train and plain arrival
times...)
in that order of expected use

I am not interested in music or social networking on mobile

Choice on 3 is somewhat limited, so either E71 or E72 springs to the
forefront for Symbian and HTC Desire on Android.
Any suggestions?

divoch

On 21 July, 13:15, Chris wrote:
divoch wrote:
I am looking for a new smartphone to replace my Skypephone S2 with emphasis
on
/mail with ability to read mail attachments (Office documents)
/Wi-Fi with ability to use Skype and/or other VOIP clients, *mainly abroad
/camera capable of reasonable quality standard size pictures
/Web browsing for useful info on the go (timetables, train and plain arrival
times...)
in that order of expected use

I am not interested in music or social networking on mobile

Choice on 3 is somewhat limited, so either E71 or E72 springs to the
forefront for Symbian and HTC Desire on Android.
Any suggestions?

If you really want Skype/VoIP/Gtalk on your phone, you should maybe check out
the Nokia N900 which supports Skype/Gtalk video calls as well as full featured
web browsing (including Flash and a choice of Firefox/Webkit/Opera browsers)
and office features (it even runs OpenOffice if you really _want_ that - the
koffice viewer works just fine for me, though).
Regards,
*Chris

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HTC Desire is amazing, except the battery life is short. I think it's
especially noticeable when comparing to the BlackBerry I had before,
or an S2 in your case. In reality is it probably fairly typical of
smartphone battery life and with my usage I get 2 days use which isn't
that bad really.

With the Desire you can open office files with the pre-installed
programme but to edit you need the full version. There may well be an
app that lets you do it for free - not too sure as I only have need to
view attachments on a phone.

Web browsing is great, Flash is supported to.

N900 is higher spec and more expensive but lacked something I can't
really describe. Samsung Galaxy S seems to be having good press to.

On 21/07/2010 12:10, divoch wrote:

I am looking for a new smartphone to replace my Skypephone S2 with
emphasis on
/mail with ability to read mail attachments (Office documents)
/Wi-Fi with ability to use Skype and/or other VOIP clients, mainly abroad
/camera capable of reasonable quality standard size pictures
/Web browsing for useful info on the go (timetables, train and plain
arrival times...)
in that order of expected use

I am not interested in music or social networking on mobile

Choice on 3 is somewhat limited, so either E71 or E72 springs to the
forefront for Symbian and HTC Desire on Android.
Any suggestions?

Nokia N900
HTC Desire
Nokia N97

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On 21/07/2010 12:10, divoch wrote:

I am looking for a new smartphone to replace my Skypephone S2 with
emphasis on
/mail with ability to read mail attachments (Office documents)
/Wi-Fi with ability to use Skype and/or other VOIP clients, mainly abroad
/camera capable of reasonable quality standard size pictures
/Web browsing for useful info on the go (timetables, train and plain
arrival times...)
in that order of expected use

I am not interested in music or social networking on mobile

Choice on 3 is somewhat limited, so either E71 or E72 springs to the
forefront for Symbian and HTC Desire on Android.
Any suggestions?

Nokia N900
HTC Desire
Nokia N97

Thanks for suggestions. However, N900 has never been, as far as I know,
offered on 3 network. This would probably mean that it will not be
compatible with free "3 Skype" application [as I found with my SE K810i,
although listed on 3 website as a suitable 3G phone]. While in UK it is
quite a bonus to me and my contacts abroad to "have Skype with me" on my
mobile.

divoch

"Chris" wrote in message ...
divoch wrote:
I am looking for a new smartphone to replace my Skypephone S2 with
emphasis
on
/mail with ability to read mail attachments (Office documents)
/Wi-Fi with ability to use Skype and/or other VOIP clients, mainly
abroad
/camera capable of reasonable quality standard size pictures
/Web browsing for useful info on the go (timetables, train and plain
arrival
times...)
in that order of expected use

I am not interested in music or social networking on mobile

Choice on 3 is somewhat limited, so either E71 or E72 springs to the
forefront for Symbian and HTC Desire on Android.
Any suggestions?

If you really want Skype/VoIP/Gtalk on your phone, you should maybe check
out
the Nokia N900 which supports Skype/Gtalk video calls as well as full
featured
web browsing (including Flash and a choice of Firefox/Webkit/Opera
browsers)
and office features (it even runs OpenOffice if you really _want_ that -
the
koffice viewer works just fine for me, though).
Regards,
Chris

--
Linux is great for calculating how much hemp-based tofu it might take to
fill
your bio-gas-powered eco-dome, but for all serious jobs you need a serious
operating system such as Microsoft Windows.
http://shelleytherepublican.com

Viewer would do fine for me. However, in my other reply I pointed out the
difficulties in considering anything that has never been sold by 3.
divoch

On 21/07/2010 16:27, divoch wrote:

Thanks for suggestions. However, N900 has never been, as far as I know,
offered on 3 network. This would probably mean that it will not be
compatible with free "3 Skype" application [as I found with my SE K810i,
although listed on 3 website as a suitable 3G phone]. While in UK it is
quite a bonus to me and my contacts abroad to "have Skype with me" on my
mobile.

Skype connectivity is built into the N900. Does '3 Skype' have any
benefits over the standard Skype application?

"Chris" wrote in message ...
divoch wrote:
I am looking for a new smartphone to replace my Skypephone S2 with
emphasis
on
/mail with ability to read mail attachments (Office documents)
/Wi-Fi with ability to use Skype and/or other VOIP clients, mainly
abroad
/camera capable of reasonable quality standard size pictures
/Web browsing for useful info on the go (timetables, train and plain
arrival
times...)
in that order of expected use

I am not interested in music or social networking on mobile

Choice on 3 is somewhat limited, so either E71 or E72 springs to the
forefront for Symbian and HTC Desire on Android.
Any suggestions?

If you really want Skype/VoIP/Gtalk on your phone, you should maybe check
out
the Nokia N900 which supports Skype/Gtalk video calls as well as full
featured
web browsing (including Flash and a choice of Firefox/Webkit/Opera
browsers)
and office features (it even runs OpenOffice if you really _want_ that -
the
koffice viewer works just fine for me, though).
Regards,
Chris


But the Nokia N900 runs Maemo, even Nokia have given up with it,
the new N8 has gone back to Symbian

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"JL" wrote in message
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On 21 July, 13:15, Chris wrote:
divoch wrote:
I am looking for a new smartphone to replace my Skypephone S2 with
emphasis
on
/mail with ability to read mail attachments (Office documents)
/Wi-Fi with ability to use Skype and/or other VOIP clients, mainly
abroad
/camera capable of reasonable quality standard size pictures
/Web browsing for useful info on the go (timetables, train and plain
arrival
times...)
in that order of expected use

I am not interested in music or social networking on mobile

Choice on 3 is somewhat limited, so either E71 or E72 springs to the
forefront for Symbian and HTC Desire on Android.
Any suggestions?
snip
HTC Desire is amazing, except the battery life is short. I think it's
especially noticeable when comparing to the BlackBerry I had before,
or an S2 in your case. In reality is it probably fairly typical of
smartphone battery life and with my usage I get 2 days use which isn't
that bad really.

Seconded, if i could afford it if go for a HTC Desire too

The number of apps coming out daily for Android is amazing.

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"Chris" wrote in message ...
Steve Terry wrote:
"Chris" wrote in message
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But the Nokia N900 runs Maemo, even Nokia have given up with it,
the new N8 has gone back to Symbian

Nope.
The N8 is the last N-Series phone that runs Symbian.
All successors will run MeGoo (which is basically a rebranded Maemo
and - in alpha status - available for the N900 already).
You will be able to upgrade the N900 to MeGoo once it is released.
Nokia will keep Symbian for their business phones, but supply MeGoo on
multimedia phones.
MeGoo will also be available on netbooks and tablets and one will be able
to use the same software on either devices.
This is why Maemo/MeGoo is far more featured then
Android/iOS/WiMo/Symbian.
PLUS:


Assuming anyone writes apps for it? Plenty of top OS have died because
of lack of support.
If i had Nokia shares i'd sell them now, the future is Android.

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In article , Steve Terry
wrote:
But the Nokia N900 runs Maemo, even Nokia have given up with it,
the new N8 has gone back to Symbian

Nokia haven't "given up with" Maemo. Maemo has been merged into Moblin
to make Meego ... which is still a little young to be finding its way
onto consumer handsets, but I'm sure it will.

Cheers,
Daniel.