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Technically speaking, all three are unremarkable.
I’ve been looking for a good comparison like this. I’m leaning Pre at the moment.
Me as well. I didn’t think anyone really used the phone part anymore, aside from SMS. Unlimited voice plans are really un needed.
Honestly, I don’t want any of them. The only reason I’ve been thinking of getting a smartphone is because I want to replace my old Palmpilot and that’s the only way to do it these days. I hate it, I’d much rather have a stand-alone device, but they don’t make them. I’d lean toward the Pre, but it’s a Sprint-exclusive and Sprint sucks. I’m very happy with T-Mobile and would like to stay with them, but only if I don’t have to pay through the nose for services I don’t use, which is what you have to do with all the smartphones. I don’t text, I never access the net from my phone, I don’t read e-mail, download movies, listen to music or anything else, in fact, I can guarantee I will never do any of those things, I just need a portable database to carry around where a laptop is too bulky to take along.
Why is that so goddamn hard?
Cephus — Completely agree. But what’s wrong with your Palm? I still use my T|X. It does everything I need for 0$ a month, including email.
Nokia 97, 32GB internal and SD card, plus 5 meg camera.
Mike
NO SMART Phone for me until they I can activate one without rip off DATA Plan!
Business will pay a tons of $$$ for data plans but for consumer its not worth it.
You American people are following Apple and Blackberry blindly. May I suggest you Nokia E71 or Nokia E75? Or if youre a multimedia freak then Nokia E97?
If youre into high quality photography and a nice cell phone then how about Nokia N86?
Lots of choices out there….
30,
I was thinking Pre too. But its not GSM yet, and I like to pretend I’m a world traveler. That being said, check out the HTC Magic (G2). Like I said prior, I was extremely impressed with the whole package.
NONE..
What I would like to know, in this international forum…
IS the basic costs in your areas for Cellphone plans..
38,
The basic cost in Ontario is 6.95 for system access fee and 50c for 9/11. After that, it’s all over the place!
But, I can get a reasonable 250 minutes and free evenings (6pm – 8am) and weekends for 25 dollars more than above. Plus tax.
Though, our European friends get free INCOMING calls which is so LOGICAL no one in North American has asked for it.
How does that compare to $15 a month for phone calls and $10 for the phone?
This article has nothing to do with the phones mentioned. They’re all close to the same price.
Instead, this article is about the different cell providers usage rates. Sprint is cheapest because it’s horrible customer “service” alienated so many people, and they’re the only company that’s actually losing customers.
I have an iPhone and pay $65 a month after taxes for 450 minutes of voice, unlimited data, and 200 text messages. I wish it were cheaper, but it’s less than half the prices quoted here.
#33: What’s wrong with my Palm? Nothing whatsoever, except that Palm decided to stop supporting it and now that I’m using Vista, you can no longer hotsync it via USB. I’m now having to keep an old laptop running in order to keep syncing my and my wife’s Palms. The time will come, however, that it will die and I want to have moved on by then, unfortunately I hate all the options I currently have for moving.
zokor: I looked at all of the phones you mentioned, none of them would work for me. They’ve got a ton of bells and whistles I don’t want and none of the things I do. The Nokia E97 doesn’t appear on the Nokia website at all, I was looking for actual tech specs and all I could find online was a bunch of ridiculous fapping over how it looks.
Like I said, the Pre, if they can fix it and if I can get an unlocked one to use on T-Mobile at a decent price, might be the best way to go, Palm has already announced that they’d be doing an emulator that will run all of the software I’ve already got and really don’t want to have to re-write all of my databases that I just got working right again.
I would love one but the monthly fees are just way too high. Especially since I hardly make a phone call…
The best deal for me was to unlock an iPhone and put it on TMobile.
My wife wanted an iPhone more for fashion than anything. She didn’t talk much on the phone she had, and wasn’t going to use the web-enabled apps that often.
We were already on a TMobile family plan for $49.95/mo for two phones. I found a 16GB 2G iPhone on Ebay for $330. Jailbreaking and unlocking were free. I added a 100Mb/mo data plan for $9.99, and everything works except for visual voicemail.
So, my costs over 24 months are:
$330 iPhone
$600 1/2 of family Voice Plan (500min/mo)
$240 data plan (100Mb/mo)
$1170 Total.
I pay $6.66 a month for my cell phone.
Smart phone? No. Smart customer? Yes.
The only thing that makes something a phone is that it can make phone calls!
B- b- b- but what if I don’t let Sprint’s cheap everything unlimited plan define my needs? I have an iPhone and so does my wife, and the whole cost for the both of us is less than the monthly cost quoted here.
And as of the last bill, I still have over 7,000 rollover minutes.
And besides, where am I going to find a crowd of friends who will stink with envy when I show up sporting my new Pre and both of its killer aps?
Why do they compare the G1 with the not-even-released iPhone 3gs, when they could’ve used the HTC Magic instead. I don’t get it.
To be fair, the iPhone is at 32GB and all music stores/app stores are not equal. I’m a huge iPhone fan, though…. 2nd place goes to Palm Pre. The Google phone is underwhelming.
#50: Because these are the three big boys that everyone is writing about. Everything else is… everything else.
Cost of owning a Sciphone:
Phone $100
8 GB card $20
Prepaid 1000 minutes, $100 x 3 times/year = $300 x 2 years = $600
Total $720.
PS: David Lynch says…
I wonder which would be BEST PRICED, if they were sold at 2 times Manufactured price.
Also arnt they on the Ver.2-3 hardware on the iphone??
Insted of the 5-10 times cost of building the unit..
Honestly the only thing that , to me, makes one look like a better deal then the other is the carrier’s plans. Obviously the sprint looks the cheapest because they have a complete package plan when AT&T forces you to peacemeal everything. I’m an iPhone user and I am happy that I am. I sure as heck don’t have the unlimited text and minute plan. I get 500 minutes a month with 200 text, and I pay 80. The best deal will always be the one where you buy only what you need..
Problem ?I see with itunes/Iphone and the rest is dealing with APPLE and itunes.
They have messed up itunes before and screwed up alot of ipods. esp the shuffle.
Insted of dealing with JUST the phone seller, you are dealing witht he phone dealer, the Phone corp(ATT, or whom ever) then with Apple then with itunes. ANY of which could say GOODBYE and you have a brick. Any of these could mess up or quit working, and you are STUCK. You are already dealing with 2 versions of the hardware, as well as 3 major patches.. And if you dont have itunes you arent SUPPOSED to have other “un-apple-registered” programs or music on the device.
APPLE has the right to ERASE any music or programs off your iphone/ipod device it deems NOT to back or is illegal. READ the EULA.
I stick to my 2 years old TyTN II, thank you.
None of the above can do half, and iPhone without cut/paste is the worst all of them.