Ive spent years following developments in the mobile space (Im a refugee from the Psion / Symbian world :-)
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Peter Sawczynec wrote: > T-Mobile HTC "myTouch" w/ google Android OS (brand new, Aug 5 09) I just pulled the trigger and ordered this last week. Ill explain why a bit later. > Sprint Palm Pre (new, mid-Jun 09) Pre is great if you dont mind being on Sprint's US-only network (or maybe you dont mind paying the exorbitant amount to acquire the UK GSM version unlocked! Has gotten greta reviews and I like the whole embrace-the-cloud concept and universal search concept. >From a development standpoint, Pre is nice. Any web developer can write Pre apps (Basically, you've got a Javascript engine embedded in the frontend running on top of a Linux kernel, so unlike the iPhone you can access acclerometer, GPS and app data from JavaScript). You use HTML and CSS to build the GUI. If I had the choice I would probably buy a Pre, but I hate Sprint so Im waiting for a GSM version to come to the US, but that might not happen until late 2010... > AT&T iPhone 3G S Very nice and pretty good value at $199. Im not a big fan of Obfuscated-C :-) so as a developer its got a steeper learning curve. There are a bazillion apps for it and its hard sorting the wheat from the chaff. But being locked on AT&T's network is a drag for me. That said, it is a nice phone. > T-Mobile RIM Blackberry Curve 8900 I like the haptic feedback of the Storm more than the Curve. Development environment is (like Android) Java-based. More business-oriented, so I never think of them as 'sexy'. > T-Mobile Samsung Comeback SGH-T559 Did not (along with the envy) make my smartphone "A" list :-) So why did I order the Ion / Magic / G2 / myTouch ? Pre was actually my top choice but Im never going back to Sprint. While Im waiting (hoping?) for a GSM Pre (or some other webOS device like the Eos) I decided I needed a smartphone now even if I only get a year of usage out of it. Im a T-Mobile customer and I didn't want to switch carrier and T-Mobile have plenty of roaming coverage in Europe which was important to me. Also when deciding between Android and iPhone, the fact that Android is open source was a major factor in my decision to look at the myTouch over the iPhone. The G2 is quad-band and has gotten good reviews. T-Mobile are running a pre-sale for existing customers so we get it first for $199. I should get mine the first week of August. (You might also consider the HTC Hero which runs Android and has a stunning UI, BUT the reviews I read said the hardware was not quite up to the task. The last I heard, the FCC had approved a version that looks like it could run on Sprint's network. Finally, a T-Mobile exec mentioned they had no plan to offer the Hero on their network, so that was that). -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
