iphone, android or windows mob?

[CK1]

Let me start my saying that I was the last person to buy into the whole Apple philosophy, but my MP3 player was biting the dust, my SonyEricsson p990 was absolute pants and my blackberry kept getting dust behind the screen and getting scratched. I needed a replacement.

I've now had the last two iterations of the iPhone, now using the 32GB 3GS and to be honest it is the best mobile device I have ever owned. It plays music, video, podcasts. It does email pretty well now that gmail 'pushes' and copy / cut & paste and picture messaging have finally arrived.

Other bonus features that I use it for are RDP-ing to my home PC when I need to perform an action on that PC. Accessing my home NAS and streaming music and video over 3G or WiFi to my iPhone. Safari is a great web browser as zooming in and out makes browsing a breeze.

I really didnt want to like the iPhone but find that it is a fantastic device. I used to use Pocket PC v2 & 3 many years ago and vowed never to return. It seems in the time since then that Pcoket PC / Windows Mobile hasnt got much better. Maybe v7 will be what it needs to for this platform to survive.

Android is another prospect. The HTC Hero looks to be a fantastic device.

In anycase my contract is up in January so I will either keep my iPhone until next June when the next version is out and get that or buy an android phone.

I Hope this helps

CK

[Bunjiweb]

I use windows mobile at the moment but as soon as i can im going to buy an android handset.

You won't be disappointed, there are some fantastic looking android handsets arriving on the market very soon, but the best of the current bunch is definitely the HTC Hero, which I am the proud owner of and would urge anyone who can to give one a go, especially iPhone owners, as there are so many aspects of android that the iPhone completely misses.

Ben

[shaffaaf27]

HTC leo ( AKA HTC HD2) OR Palm Pre

[Dogers]

the best of the current bunch is definitely the HTC Hero

Out of curiosity, what would you say the Hero had over the Samsung Galaxy? I've seen a review of both and I like the look of the Samsung out of the two..

[j.o.s.h.1408]

HTC leo ( AKA HTC HD2) OR Palm Pre

That is not an android device., we need an andorid device that has the same features has the touch pro 2

edit: thats too blooming big. might as well carry a netbook with you

[directhex]

Out of curiosity, what would you say the Hero had over the Samsung Galaxy? I've seen a review of both and I like the look of the Samsung out of the two..

The Galaxy ships with stock Android

The Hero ships with an HTC custom image with lots of extra gubbins.

[Bunjiweb]

The HTC Sense interface vastly improves the stock android home screens (especially since the recent Hero update). HTC also adds multi-touch and various other things such as Flash that aren't "standard" on android. And in my opinion the Hero feels better built, and I actually favour the "chin", although I understand it is a Marmite feature.

The only things that IMHO are better on the galaxy are the camera's flash (I have a good compact fuji camera thanks), having 8GB built in (although no supplied card like the Hero) and some might argue that the screen being AMOLED is better, but having seen both running side by side I honestly can see very little difference and I think the Hero's screen has excellent clarity and colour definition, and I haven't seen much evidence to say the battery is in the real world that much better.

Ben