Guest pisquee Posted October 7, 2004 Report Posted October 7, 2004 My sister is interested in buying a new phone, and I was talking her thorugh and showing her some of the cool stuff that my c500 can do. This got me thinking... Has anyone done, on any of the smartphone sites, a non biased and informative review of what Smartphone can do/can't do, especailly with comparisons to other options? Especially written to the kind of person who would normally be happy with a Nokia 3330, but is thinking about getting something more useful? Am finding it hard to explain the kind of thing I mean, sorry.
Guest beersoft Posted October 7, 2004 Report Posted October 7, 2004 thats a good idea, but i think 90% of the people here would be a little biased towards the smartphone-o-love i'll ask the other half to put pen to paper and say what she likes/dislikes about her c500 (she's the literate one in the house) later Owen
Guest lukeap69 Posted October 7, 2004 Report Posted October 7, 2004 my gut feel is if she is accustomed to nokia 3330, then she might not find the Smartphone user friendly. most of whom i know who previously had nokias or sony ericssons had difficulties in using smartphone. only those who after i installed apps & games to their phones agreed that Smartphone is a monster phone. anyway, if you can accustome her to use Smartphone, i think it's ok. otherwise, she can buy symbian based nokia. regards, lukeap 69
Guest pisquee Posted October 8, 2004 Report Posted October 8, 2004 She definately sees the advanage of everything smartphone can do, and is used to windows, so i don't see it as a hard transition for her at all, but thought if there was a set of pages on one of the main (and more reputable/serious) smartphone sites, for beginners with stuff on before you buy (ie. what is a windows phone, what can it do that other phones san't, what other smartphones are there, what Smartphones are there, aswell as what to do now you own your windows phone.
Guest olly_k Posted October 8, 2004 Report Posted October 8, 2004 She definately sees the advanage of everything smartphone can do, and is used to windows.... I personally think that is the defining statment ^_^ If you are happy with windows and specifically with explorer, and as a bonus the Task Manager there shouldn't be much of a problem using an SPV!
Guest chucky.egg Posted October 8, 2004 Report Posted October 8, 2004 It confuses me when people say that Windows Mobile is "familiar" (I think that's the word MS/Orange use) cos my PC is *nothing* like the phone. Surely the concept of Task Manager and a File Explorer are as much like Linux as they are like Windows, and the GUI is totally different. MS Smartphone is getting much better (still has some way to go IMO) so surely they can come up with something more convincing than "it's like your PC" when it clearly isn't!
Guest squall Posted October 8, 2004 Report Posted October 8, 2004 I have to agree about the dis-similarities of a smartphone and a pc. Microsoft tried to emphasis the link in an attempt to get people to relate to the new platform. The main similar area is the ability to drag and drop onto the phone and sd card. Right at this moment ms dont seem to have any particular marketing strategy, but hey maybe they are letting phones such as the c500 speak for themselves
Guest Chaser81 Posted October 8, 2004 Report Posted October 8, 2004 Unbiased comparison? C500: Rocks P900: Had that, it rocked too P800: That rocked but the p900 is better SPV e200: Yeah, rockin but battery poo 7610: Camera rocks, smartphone bit sucks arse XDA II: Bout as big as a big rock! Rocks though. Unbiased enough? Rock on!
Guest pisquee Posted October 9, 2004 Report Posted October 9, 2004 I think what I was trying to get at (but not too well) is that she is fine using windows, and techie minded enough, to be able to handle Smartphone OS.
Guest pisquee Posted October 10, 2004 Report Posted October 10, 2004 Had a think ... and a read of some existing reviews of the c500 and I think i've worked out in my head what i wanted... The reviews I could find assume that their readers are all users of HTC's MS Smartphones already, and are people wanting to upgrade to the C500. What I could not find, and I think would be useful is a review (sales pitch) for people who have not used an MS smartphone before. Even one aimed at an audience who haven't used any kind of smartphone before. There are lots of websites for people with MS Smartphones, but not many (or any at all) pages dedicated to people who are thinking about being Smart.
Guest pgm316 Posted October 11, 2004 Report Posted October 11, 2004 What I could not find, and I think would be useful is a review (sales pitch) for people who have not used an MS smartphone before. Even one aimed at an audience who haven't used any kind of smartphone before. I agree, good idea! A list of points saying what extra a smartphone does over a "normal" phone would be useful!
Guest squall Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 My site will inculde some form of comparason chart between smartphone and non smartphone. Will be online before the meet, so keep an eye open for it ^_^ Best go tell owen i have added content :/
Guest Symby1 Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 She might feel better about the whole smartphone thing once she's read a bit about the topic. I picked up What Smartphone recently... it's the first issue so, thinking it would be full of uninformed rubbish, I was quite surprised by some of the content.
Guest olly_k Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 It confuses me when people say that Windows Mobile is "familiar" (I think that's the word MS/Orange use) cos my PC is *nothing* like the phone. Surely the concept of Task Manager and a File Explorer are as much like Linux as they are like Windows, and the GUI is totally different. Why is it sooo different to windows? windows has explorer, it has a task manager almost identical (probably better than in '98 ^_^ ). ok, they work slightly differently but knowone is pretending they are the same. It was just pointed out that if you understand what windows explorer & TM etc do on a PC then you can understand what the same apps do in the phone. If you can use those same apps in the PC then you should have very little difficulty understanding & utilising those same apps on the phone. I actually found *most* things fairly intuative out the box, and certainly easy to discover further functions - two weeks on there is very little I haven't sused out how to use - apart from general email / messaging which I can't afford to use anyway at the moment.. As for the GUI it isn't really a GUI at all if we are comparing the software to the extent you are :wink:
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted October 13, 2004 Report Posted October 13, 2004 To be honest i think the familiarity is more to do with the presentation rather than the application. People know and recognise the Windows logo and when they see it on a phone or PPC instantly associate it with Microsoft and their desktop PC. The actual use will be completely different obviously, as it is a completely different device.
Guest midnight Posted October 16, 2004 Report Posted October 16, 2004 although, it still has a start button with applications inside, and still has windows media player, c500 also has a file explorer and task manager, so these things are kinda similar, and of course it syncs data across from pc to phone seamlessly with no buttons needed to sync etc., hell, you browse the phone on the pc to copy files across ^_^
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