Recommendations for new Mobile Telephone

[rwb]

I think all phones are 'smart' now, so tough

My gut feeling is that you should stick with a Blackberry for the physical keyboard. The on-screen keyboards take a bit of getting used to and frankly, I find them simply not very good.

Why not go to some phone shops and have a look at the demo units, although you might be hard pushed to find many Blackberries.

Apple is probably the next port of call since what Apple call simplicity and easy of use hardened Android users call featureless and limited.

[FarmerPug]

I like my old iPhone it does all I need and it's not too complicated to use, my dad was able to get the hang of his after 10 years with one of them big brick nokias,
The camera is good, it has an led flash which can stay on when recording video.

[Welly]

Mmmm, thinking about the keyboard the Blueberry has actual keys but are very small, I kinda press them with my finger nails that's pretty sh*t. When I'm texting my bitches it doesn't flow too well either because you have to type in order (I believe the I-phone or others 'correct' speling midtakes for you?). And the camera is *bad*.

I think I might take a gander at the Galaxy first and see how it goes.

Thanks for everyone's advice, appreciated.

[steve_earwig]

My smart* phone's keys* are on the touch screen, they don't react to fingernails so you have to use a fingertip. How wide are the keys? How wide is a fingertip? It might react to the key you're trying to press, or it might react to the one next to it, it might not react at all, or it might react to a key in a completely different place altogether. If you turn the phone sideways the buttons get slightly bigger, but then you can's see much of what you're typing.

The predictive text isn't so bad, instead of the dumb phone's single suggestion it gives a row of them, so if you're typing hammer it'll suggest words with the letters you've managed to type in so far (ham, hamper, hammock, hammer...) which you press to finish the word off if it's on the list, starting off with your typo which if you hit the phone will add to the dictionary forever. It can also cope with these things ŠĐČĆŽ (unlike pc spell checkers) which I'm sure you'll find a use for...

I use few apps on mine, the one I seem to use most of all is the super task killer which I regularly use to kill off all those apps the phone's started up all by itself without asking and which just sit there draining the battery. Oh, and there's an app to see what the solar panels are up to And tapatalk of course, which I get to use whenever I'm near an open network (which is mostly some cafes these days, there used to be more but I think they finally figured out network encryption in places like the clinic & the hospital, restaurants are still open usually but mostly don't seem to have an actual Internet connection). I should probably get an internet package (or whatever they call it) but I can't do that on prepay here so it involves paying a bill every month, which I don't want to do in case I accidental leave it connected overnight and get a bill for eleventy billion weasels.

[OllieNZ]

If you use a hands free kit make sure you ensure compatibility before getting the phone as I've just been having an argument with my workmates galaxy 4 and it seems it's not compatible with his 13plate megane, his old phone had no issues, my phone had no issues but his s4 is a no go and it seems that alot of people are having issues with the newer galaxies and built in car systems.