Hey Cell Phone Gurus. Quick Question.

[SuperTrooper 10+ year member]

Today I have a choice to get a unlocked Nokia n95 or a locked ( not sure 4g or 8g) I-Phone. Anyone here have experience with owning either of these and which you think would be the better deal.

Really won't be using all the bells and whitles that much on either phone but just getting one to get one basically.

I am leaning more towards the n95 as of now. but would like to here what some owners of the phone have to say about them. Thanks.

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[quest51210 10+ year member]

i-phone will be a better ice breaker for meetings with the opposite ***.

 

[SuperTrooper 10+ year member]

i-phone will be a better ice breaker for meetings with the opposite ***.

I'm married so I guess that really doesn't become a factor here. But thanks though.

 

[ent3rdadragon 10+ year member]

n95 for sure. Better cam, symbian os, and the speaker drowns out the iphone.

 

[SuperTrooper 10+ year member]

Yea, thats the one I am leaning towards. I have been watching reviews on YouTube and the n95 does look versatile. Plus I'm not big on touchscreen.

 

[937DYTBOI 5,000+ posts]

I would say N95 cause its unlocked and thats a pretty nice phone you dont see a lot of peple with them

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

For cell phones I would never get or reccomend anything that doesn't have a non-proprietary OS. I have a cheap little HTC Wizard that I flashed with a build of WM6 and I can do so much ****ing shit with that little phone.

I.e. connect to someones wifi, go to logmein.com from it and control my home pc as if I was sitting there....from my ****ing cell phone......plus I have 500 NES games on it.

If you like to tinker with your gear at all go with a non proprietary smartphone. n95 is likely to have way more available since Apple locks their shit down hardcore. Google the phone, check out forums for it.

But if you have no interest in anything but flash, get the iphone.

 

[SuperTrooper 10+ year member]

Thanks for the input. I went with the n95 and wow! way too much phone for me. I ended up trading it for a brand new in the box T-Mobile Shadow (Copper) since I have T-mobile & the my favs. Plus I got $100.00.

The Shadow is more down to my level ( beginner smartphone.) But that n95, that is one basass phone.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Shadow sucks, 2 hr battery life...

 

[jer_stud56 10+ year member]

WM6 for the win //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif.

I have a verizon xv6800 right now and I can watch dvds on it no problem and plus the games, wifi, and real qwerty keypad = FTW.

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

I got the Dash after hearing all the complaints and even the sales reps doggin the Shadows Battery life. I was originally going to get the Shadow, glad I didnt. Dash has Windows, qwerty, WiFi, basically a computer

 

[SuperTrooper 10+ year member]

I got the Dash after hearing all the complaints and even the sales reps doggin the Shadows Battery life. I was originally going to get the Shadow, glad I didnt. Dash has Windows, qwerty, WiFi, basically a computer

The battery life could be better I admit that. But thay are coming out with a software update anyday now to help extend the battery life. It doesn't really effect my much since I mostly just use mine for texting and the phone.

The Shadow really isn't that bad of a phone , it had Windows mobile 6, WI-FI and all the other features as the Dash , Wing etc. etc.. It is a HTC phone. To me I think the Shadow looks better. I guess to each his own.