By the end of the week, most of the phones will drop down a tier as the N97 and iPhone 3G-S have just come out.
What are the main functions you're planning on using? the N96 has a telly and BBC iPlayer support, which is pretty nifty, plus a large range of software.

I don't like, anymore, S60's calendar/contact/email sync'ing, but I imagine it's still miles better than the Tocca (even though I've not played with that).
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 12:10, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Well
I just need it to be able to access "proper" internet for when I'm out and about and invariably lost. I could use wifi, since that'll keep my phone bill down.

I agree with the N97 coming out the N96 may well fall by the wayside, and I've heard the N96 feels kind of cheaply made. I had the N95 and N95 8GB and while they were good they did break easily. Having said that, the last high end Samsung I had (innov8) wound up in the shop 4 times in 6 months.
(Tiny Blindfolded Horse Kitten sound car horns would end road rage, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 12:13, Reply)

I had an N82 for the last year-and-half, and I hated browsing the web on it.
I had some software called Joikospot that allowed for me to turn the device into a wireless hotspot, to use my Touch to browse the web... it was a good sollution, but it killed the battery, and I wanted to go all-in-one, except now I'm going to have to get a Snapper Camera as the camera on the iPhone is shit... I'll wait a month or two and go for one with bluetooth in, so I can do all that uploading shit on the move.

I think, currently, the best sollution for an all-in-one would be the N97, but I've not used it yet, so am not entirely sure. I know the 5800's screen is shit, but the N97 uses a different one.

Then there is the Palm Pre if you want to wait a bit, and there is a "iphone killer" coming from Sony come late-auterm, if you don't mind waiting.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 12:19, Reply)

Oooh the Idou?
I'm a little apprehensive about that. I made the mistake of grabbing the first 8MP camera phone as soon as it landed and it was utter crap. In future I'll always buy the second of something.
(Tiny Blindfolded Horse Kitten sound car horns would end road rage, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 12:24, Reply)

That's the one.
Once you hit 7 or 8 mpx, it doesn't make too much of a differance above that... unless you're printing to A3ish size, in which case, you wouldn't use a snapper-camera, but the Idou will be hitting 12mpx with decent optics. It's the rest of the Idou's features that have my gadget-sense tingling.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 12:29, Reply)

I have Sony's
Xperia X1 (made by HTC) its all of the awesome for what I use it for, but is overly complex for non-techies!
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 13:13, Reply)