Happy New Year Everyone!
I am fishing for suggestions on a new cellphone, here are my needs and wants:
- No contract carrier
- Android phone
- Good camera (video and photo)
- Functional eReader (I enjoy Gutenberg Project books)
- $300 to $400 budget
- iPhone like touch responsiveness
- WiFi
- GPS
Here's some background on my situation. I really want an android phone, but I find the ones that are on Metro PCS lackluster for my needs. I just purchased the new Huawaie Ascend phone for my wife and you can certainly tell it's a $100 phone. It's got shoddy touch sensitivity, it lags, I mean it is what I expected. It's a perfectly good phone for my wife, but not me. I'm a bit more of a power user than she is.
My friend has his iPhone 3GS ported over to Simple Talk and he's paying $60 a month for unlimited everything. I was thinking of getting a 3GS and doing the same thing. BUT I HATE APPLE AND EVERYTHING THEY STAND FOR. I would be a trader to my own kind of I went in that direction. So I am trying to avoid it at all costs.
I am not familiar with the Android line of phones so I don't know which ones can be bought and ported to other 3rd tier carriers like Simple Talk, Boost, Metro PCS, etc...
Please suggest a few phones so that I may begin my research on the right foot. Also, please feel free to provide any education material you can.
You'll be helping me avoid the iPhone.
Thank you,
I am fishing for suggestions on a new cellphone, here are my needs and wants:
- No contract carrier
- Android phone
- Good camera (video and photo)
- Functional eReader (I enjoy Gutenberg Project books)
- $300 to $400 budget
- iPhone like touch responsiveness
- WiFi
- GPS
Here's some background on my situation. I really want an android phone, but I find the ones that are on Metro PCS lackluster for my needs. I just purchased the new Huawaie Ascend phone for my wife and you can certainly tell it's a $100 phone. It's got shoddy touch sensitivity, it lags, I mean it is what I expected. It's a perfectly good phone for my wife, but not me. I'm a bit more of a power user than she is.
My friend has his iPhone 3GS ported over to Simple Talk and he's paying $60 a month for unlimited everything. I was thinking of getting a 3GS and doing the same thing. BUT I HATE APPLE AND EVERYTHING THEY STAND FOR. I would be a trader to my own kind of I went in that direction. So I am trying to avoid it at all costs.
I am not familiar with the Android line of phones so I don't know which ones can be bought and ported to other 3rd tier carriers like Simple Talk, Boost, Metro PCS, etc...
Please suggest a few phones so that I may begin my research on the right foot. Also, please feel free to provide any education material you can.
You'll be helping me avoid the iPhone.
Thank you,
