Iphone Or SideKick, Which One Is More Reliable?

!phone 4 me

I like the sidekick because it is pretty but that is all it is. It is nothing like the iphone not even close

i will never get the iphone wit my money. i hate the way the synchronization works and by the way, you cant send and receive thru bluetooth.they shd put that in mind when developing the next iphone and people will have a change of heart.
the n97 is the surest bet for me now, followed by omnia hd , then the e75  but i wouldnt want another e series. i want entertainment nt business. i use an e71 currently.

I don't use bluetooth anywaz, it's called inference  or email 

n97? T-Mobile carrier? 


No Nokia plz, won't ever ever go back to them again

What? sidekick is so wack. .trust me I have the sidekick lx. Well, I liked it at first but not anymore. It's definitely for high school kids which is why I'm changing my phone before college in sept.

Besides that, it doesn't have much features. Yes, it has internet and IM and incures a bill of $20 every month which is unlimited(nice, right?) but this internet is just for gmail, yahoomail, facebook mobile(which is crappy anyway), myspace, nairaland, etc Try going on youtube   I mean you can go on the site, you just can't watch the video.

In addition to the above mentioned, its camera quality is poor!! Take a few pictures and the memory card is full, store a few songs and it's full. . .unless you buy an additional memory stick.

Iphone is alright. . .more songs, videos, touch screen, which is cool(I liked sk because it flips ) my friend just got the Iphone 3G, I'm contemplating on whether to buy that or the G1.

Now, another really cool phone is the samsung omnia, it's touch screen and it is way better than the above mentioned. my brother has it. Funny thing is he didn't buy it himself, he got it as a gift but I think it's really expensive that is if you don't sign a contract with a specific company. This means you can use with any company including your current phone company and get the same bill. But without that, it's $99.99 for verizon or is it at&t but your bill is gonna be so huge.

OHH OHHH G1, that phone.

Yea, I was deciding between G1 and Samsung Behold

G1 is not in nigeria yet.

G1 is also on Tmobile only. . . .looks like d sidekick cos of the qwerty keyboard. . . .but its a really good 4ne. . .

LOL, that's it.
I don't have TMobile as of now, had it, so that's why my bill is up.

Lemme ask you a question, if I activate my tmobile acct again, am I still going to get discount or not? 

I had samsung for a while. I can vouch for their crapness 
From battery not charging to messed up screen.
But their internet is pretty fast

Yea, but to get an Iphone, I'd have to connect with at&t. . . .money sucker
My friend had at&t, she couldn't text or recieve texe, else she'd be charged.
Limited calls
bla bla, all that.


Atucally, I wanted G1 (my post I think was on the recent page) because of the key boards and touch screen. . . .but then Samsung Behold looks cuter
everything is going touch screen.

Did you see the touch screen house phone?  I'm so getting that ASAP.

Yea, I wanted SK because of the flip childish ke. . .

ewww TMI. 

The latest SK 3 looks nice though.

But they said, SK is good for internet but it's other futures are not that good.

Me, I don change my mind sef, I want a G1 

WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD!!!

lets see if we can put things into perspective. the common iphone gripes are:

1. syncing with itunes
2. non removable battery
3. lack of MMS
4. Bluetooth FTP
5. copy and paste
6. video cam


lets start off with item 1

SYNCING WITH ITUNES

the best known apple gadget is undoutedly the ipod. Apple has sold over 100 million ipod variants over the years, and the iphone is touted as the best ipod ever by Apple. not 'the best PHONE ever", but best "IPOD EVER".  since the iphone is mostly a multimedia device that also doubles as a phone, it stands to good reason the main initial target market was those millions of ipod owners. thats a solid, ready market. now those ipod owners equal millions of people who already know how to sync with itunes and are okay doing it, not to mention the giga bytes of itunes purchases they already own from down the years. surely Apple wouldnt want millions of poeple to lose their itunes purchases by doing away with itunes (which incidentally is tied in deep to itunes store).

if i already have a solid customer base (potentially at least) running into the millions who already are used to one way of managing their devices, does it make sense to alter that model? these days every PMP device already syncs with some software or other and the reason isnt too farfetched: our data has grown into the multi-gigabyte range, meaning MANUALLY managing that tremendous collection is a hassle. in the days of 8mb, 16mb, 32mb and 64mb storage media, manually organizing and uploading content was easy. now, in the time of 250gb SSD and 120gb ipods, its sensible to engage software assistance to manage data.


my own personal music collection is a mere 18gigs but i have over 700gb of videos and TV Shows, and frankly im okay selecting what i want on my device, clicking sync and walking away to granb a snack.

NON REMOVABLE BATTERY

we all love those china phones with their dual batteries, thats because we are in a country bordering on perpetual blackout. being able to swap out a near dead battery helps. but here is the deal on the iphone:

designing a removable battery on the iphone means one of two things, according to Apple:

1. smaller battery and therefore less power
2. a bulkier iphone because of allowing for a battery compartment and insulation.

clearly to keep the iphone slim and well designed, none was an option. also, the ipod doesnt have removable batteries and the owners arent complaining (though to be fair, ipod batteries last longer).

LACK OF MMS

MMS stands alogside WAP/WML as technology bred simply because it was possible, not becuase it was required. MMS has not taken off anywhere, and mobile email has placed the future of MMS in jeopardy. no carrier has figured out how to make MMS attain mass appeal and profitability. for all intents and purposes, its a little-used gimmick.

however MMS support is coming via the 3.0 iphone update.


BLUETOOTH FTP

why was bluetooth named "Bluetooth", after a little-known Danish king? because its chief proponents are Nokia and Ericsson, both Scandinavians!

seriously, though, Apple expects everyone to fill up their iphone/ipod touches with content from Itunes Store. until recently any media from that store is FairPlay'd (DRM) to one account and is non-transferable, clearly, Apple wouldnt want users to buy one tune and beam it to people who otherwise would spend their 99 cents on Itunes Store. This model is not entirely different from almost any music store locking their content with anti-piracy measures.

on a related note, even the much-maligned DRM lock is at the instigation of the Music labels who steadfastly refuse to sell DRM-free tunes without charging more.

since supposedly the iphone engine is tied to Apple's FairPlay measure it makes sense blocking means of illegally spreading copyrighted content. like i said, Apple expects iphone users to buy content from  Itunes, with those content locked to individual accounts. for balance, consider that music beamed via wifi on Zune expire after a certain time period. Even microsoft doesnt wat people sharing music!

however i still think at leats sharing photos should have been enabled via bluetooth on iphone. in any case, bluetooth P2P is coming via the 3.0 update.

COPY and PASTE

an unforgivable oversight. to be remedied by the 3.0 software.

VIDEO RECORDER

that 2mp camera will only blur videos, though third party apps exist that allow the functionality to those who absolutely must record their inane moments.


i hope people understand that first and foremost iphone is a MEDIA device, with corporate functionality thrown in.

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WIFI (wireless fidelity, geekily known as 802.11) is the wireless technology that allows for the existence of WLAN (Wireless Lacal Area Network)

they are mostly used interchangably, and thats okay.

Like I said earlier, I use the sidekick lx. The sidekick '08 is the newest. And no, I don't think it's better than the lx, it's just smaller and comes in more colors.

@Ex Inferis

You're right o, long post for real.

Thanks for the warning

Thanks for the post sha. . . .

Gimme a lil more info on the G1, PLEASE 


I meant, do I get a discount on the phones.

I know that SK has been out since 06-07?, but I wasn't with T-Mobile then (left them for a better company).


I think I'd stick with G1

Oh hell no. .  . . .I am not spending no $500 on just a phone.

Abeg, that buys almost 3 text books right there.

lemme look for those cheap phones. . . .thread closed

LOL, sidekick is not $500, the price has even gone down now. when I got mine, it was @299.99

But ok, since you got everything on lock down. their shipping is fine, they recently shipped me a new lx when the scroll ball of the first one stopped working, I didn't even pay for the new one, it was covered.