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New Phones! ~ Or: Nokia vs. HTC
Sunday, June 3, 2012 4:18:41 PM
I got myself a couple of new phones recently. Two, to be more precise. A work phone and my own private phone.
Work has only got a limited selection of phones to chose between, I think there's like four on the list, of which iPhone is one. I didn't go for that one though, instead I picked HTC Desire S. My previous work phone was also an HTC so I thought it would take me the least time to get used to another HTC.
At approximately the same time I decided to replace my old Nokia with a Smartphone. I looked through the options, and an important thing for me was the price. I wasn't willing to pay shitloads of money for a new phone.
I was so lucky that a Nokia phone that I've been looking at is about to leave the market. I found a site where the price was low, and ordered my Nokia E7.
I have had the phones for a couple of months now, and would like to point out some differences.
First of all there's the operating system. HTC Desire S runs on Android, and Nokia E7 runs on Symbian ^3.
Then there's the start up time. Before actually testing it, I thought that the E7 was faster. It felt like it, also because that the HTC actually requires that I type in the pincode twice - something which is probably set up by the IT guys at work, to make it all more secure. It's annoying nonetheless. But having started them both up at the same time have proved that the HTC is faster than the Nokia.
A thing that is different when comparing the two phones is the touch screen and how precise you have to be when operating on the screens. I like the Nokia much better. When it comes to games or just pressing icons, they're equal. But when it comes to using the "keyboard" on the monitor, it's just much easier to type correct on the Nokia.
And the Nokia has a thing that the HTC doesn't: A real keyboard. You can flip the screen up on the Nokia, and underneath is a full qwerty-keyboard. So nice. So usable. So fantastic. I don't want to live without it. Writing texts on a phone without keys is ridiculous!
On the down side for the Nokia phone is OVI store. HTC has Android Market, and it holds so much more interesting stuff than the OVI store does. And since I love playing games on my phones, the availability of games matters!
So there are pluses and minuses for both the phones. Given the choice between them I'd probably go for the Nokia. The keyboard counts a lot. And the main downside is the lack of games and stuff for the phone.
Work has only got a limited selection of phones to chose between, I think there's like four on the list, of which iPhone is one. I didn't go for that one though, instead I picked HTC Desire S. My previous work phone was also an HTC so I thought it would take me the least time to get used to another HTC.
At approximately the same time I decided to replace my old Nokia with a Smartphone. I looked through the options, and an important thing for me was the price. I wasn't willing to pay shitloads of money for a new phone.
I was so lucky that a Nokia phone that I've been looking at is about to leave the market. I found a site where the price was low, and ordered my Nokia E7.
I have had the phones for a couple of months now, and would like to point out some differences.
First of all there's the operating system. HTC Desire S runs on Android, and Nokia E7 runs on Symbian ^3.
Then there's the start up time. Before actually testing it, I thought that the E7 was faster. It felt like it, also because that the HTC actually requires that I type in the pincode twice - something which is probably set up by the IT guys at work, to make it all more secure. It's annoying nonetheless. But having started them both up at the same time have proved that the HTC is faster than the Nokia.
A thing that is different when comparing the two phones is the touch screen and how precise you have to be when operating on the screens. I like the Nokia much better. When it comes to games or just pressing icons, they're equal. But when it comes to using the "keyboard" on the monitor, it's just much easier to type correct on the Nokia.
And the Nokia has a thing that the HTC doesn't: A real keyboard. You can flip the screen up on the Nokia, and underneath is a full qwerty-keyboard. So nice. So usable. So fantastic. I don't want to live without it. Writing texts on a phone without keys is ridiculous!
On the down side for the Nokia phone is OVI store. HTC has Android Market, and it holds so much more interesting stuff than the OVI store does. And since I love playing games on my phones, the availability of games matters!
So there are pluses and minuses for both the phones. Given the choice between them I'd probably go for the Nokia. The keyboard counts a lot. And the main downside is the lack of games and stuff for the phone.
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