(I work in an area with no reception, so I didn't get this text until after work.)my brother wrote:OK, gphone over iPhone. Convince me.
my brother wrote:SENT FROM MY IPHONE
me wrote:SORRY WHO AM I SPEAKING WITH YOU COULDN'T BE MY BROTHER BECAUSE HE DIED A FEW HOURS AGO
my brother wrote:I WANT THIS PHONE IN, ON, AND AROUND MY BODY
Merits of each (for those phones that have merits, anyway; feel free to make shit up for iPhones so they don't feel left out of that part of the conversation), experiences with any, etc.me wrote:>:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[ >:[
If you don't have any pie, leave the thread.
Otherwise, go.
I use an HTC Dream, a.k.a. T-Mobile G1, a.k.a. the g-phone, a.k.a. the Google Phone, and it's the single best monetary investment I have ever made in my entire life. It's open source, Linux-based, supports concurrent installation of fucking Debian, lacking in fascist corporate bullshit about battery replacements, etc., besides going the typical smartphone route of syncing contacts and calendars, superior web browsing, wireless, GPS, still and video camera, etc., etc. It has both an on-screen keyboard and a slide-out keyboard, as you prefer, has expandable memory up to 32 GB SDHC micro cards, has real-time email push from Google, glorious integration with Google Maps, and you're only one FREE market app away from deploying chaingun drones to protect you in your sleep (cuz most of the market apps are free, as well as free from overbearing fascist oversight like the Apple application market).
After minimal interest in the market, I found stable and powerful SSH clients, FTP clients and servers, and VNC viewers (yeah, you read that shit right) and servers, all for free. I can and have done my job from my cell phone, since it has full support for terminal emulation, down to shortcuts for fucking screen (so you know a pro made the app) and implementing ncurses.
I can play DOOM on my cell phone. Fucking DOOM. It's actually quite playable (instead of being proof-of-concept, such as DOOM on your iPod), and runs smoothly.
In areas without wireless networks, I can tether it to my laptop via Bluetooth and get internet connectivity anywhere I have cell reception, again, for fucking FREE (the tethering tool is free; I naturally have an unlimited data plan).
Here's some other shit I can do effortlessly: I can (completely hypothetically) walk into GameStop, use the camera to scan a barcode on a game, and have my phone find the torrent for it across multiple torrent sites that has the highest seed count, and tell my computer to start downloading it immediately. I (hypothetically) do this shit all day for shit I'm interested in, just holding a chai latte in one hand and casually scanning barcodes in the other. I've saved hundreds of dollars on textbooks in school via a similar process with an app that lets me find the book, gets the lowest price, even looks for coupons and shit, and lets me order anything that has a barcode to my house in mere seconds.
Enhanced reality is getting more popular, too. I can point my phone in various directions and it'll tell me what's over there, and I can filter by categories like cultural shit, fooderies, alcoholories, and rental housing.
Also, there's this cool zombie game where you watch a real-time map of where you're going with dots that represent zombies that chase you. It makes jogging and/or walking between classes more interesting.
...and it's cheaper than an iPhone.
HTC owns face. I challenge anyone to present me something superior for around the same price.
(But mostly cuz I don't really know much about the other phones. :p)
EDIT:
One other thing I forgot: The Android OS can be run via LiveCD on your computer, and can be installed concurrently with many Linux distributions. Canonical took pains to make Ubuntu do this, specifically.
