The Nokia N97, N86 and E75, along with the iPhone 3GS are now in my smartphone-choosing Grid, if you'd care to try your luck. After finding what the Grid thinks is your perfect smartphone, try playing the 'fiddle the preferences so that device X wins' game - it'll while away your Friday afternoon, anyway! 8-)
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even with all the newer phones on the list i got the n95 8gb for all my choices... just shows what a quality phone it is
(omnia hd runner up)
Whereas previously its always suggested the E71 to me (which I agree with), now its given the E75 with E71 as runner up (which I do not agree with).
I suspect this is because I said games was important.
I would have though form factor would be a major factor though that doesn't seem to be one of the questions.
N95 8GB FTW \o/
But I've got one. :-/ At least it put the N86 as runner-up as I'm tending to that for my upgrade later this year.
the alternative would be to upgrade to the N97 and sell it, I suppose...
I too now have the E75 over the E71 on the grid. Having tried the E75 it is a no-no. I need to be able to put text in easily, preferably one handed, and certainly do not want the phaff of a slide-out keyboard.
Hi Steve,
Your grid seems pretty biased against the G1.
I see that you've got the TMobile G1 as only a '4' for wider connectivity despite having WLan, 3g, GPRS.
Video playback as a '2' and video recording as a '0' - the recent Cupcake firmware update did endow the G1 with video recording, albeit only at 352x288 and at around 15fps, even so, it's certainly not a '0'.
Battery life is admittedly pretty dismal, but you can change to a double capacity battery fairly for around a tenner, most of which come with a new back cover.
Has anyone out there got an Omnia i8910, I'd love to know what the battery life's like?
E71 with 373 came as winner for me with E75 coming second. However, I am not looking at any of these, waiting for E72 😊
@JCB: Good point, my G1 ratings were based on the initial hardware I looked at. I need to change the scores to reflect the new firmware. On the next update!
Steve,
Any chance you could add the names of the handsets to the bottom of the table too please? I can't recognise them all from the pictures, and it would be very useful to have their identities next to their final scores...
G1 scores tweaked (a little) and names added to the bottom of the table.
Steve, could you elaborate on how 'Local connectivity options' is computed? Looking at the scores of all phones listed, it seems that infrared alone is worth 5 points. And the number of people who care about IR in 2009 can be probably counted in the single digits.
I was thinking I needed to replace my oldfashioned phone , being a non-show nowadays . The E90 is stil running up behind E75 ..... !
😊 Regards jApi NL
rvirga wrote:Steve, could you elaborate on how 'Local connectivity options' is computed? Looking at the scores of all phones listed, it seems that infrared alone is worth 5 points. And the number of people who care about IR in 2009 can be probably counted in the single digits.
Yep, that line in the table could do with a revamp. I'm thinking about it 8-)
Having played with the G1 keyboard, I thought It was terrible. Not worth an 8 for text input speed.
Zuber
Not sure how you can only give the 3GS only 6 for speed when it's the fastest device I have ever used. Also why the modest score on video recording, it is the same level as all current Nokia devices. In fact their is only one higher rated device in this area & that's the i8910HD as far as I am concerned.
To be honest after using a 5800XM I will never again use an S60 TS device if I can help it. It's an old inefficent OS that shows too clearly it was developed from a non TS OS. As far as TS devices are concerned I will only consider devices with OS X & Android which are much more efficent and specifically designed for TS devices. Like MS are doing with WM7 Symbian for TS needs rebuilding from the ground up.
Super Chimp wrote:Not sure how you can only give the 3GS only 6 for speed when it's the fastest device I have ever used. Also why the modest score on video recording, it is the same level as all current Nokia devices. In fact their is only one higher rated device in this area & that's the i8910HD as far as I am concerned.
Yes, the 3GS is fast, but YOU CAN'T MULTITASK. You can't leave something playing in the background while you do something else etc. Maybe I'll split the two parameters, to make things clearer though - nice point!
[Now done - go try the Grid again 8-) ]
Steve
Thank you for that.
I am certainly not going to dispute on the lack of multitasking on the iphone.😃
The scores for the n82 need to be adjusted. Comparing the n82 to the n95 8gb, there are some that are way lower for the n82. For example speed, a 5 for n82 and 8 for n95 8gb, same processor, same firmware. Software stability as well a 7 and a 9, both devices have the same firmwares, no difference whatsoever. The still photography segment seems to be evaluated simply on the amount of megapixels each device is capable of capturing. n82 should have a 10 even though it has 5mp, the inclusion of xenon is a godsend, otherwise you can create segments separating night and daytime still photography. Video recording 8 and 9, between n82 and n95 8gb, and yet no difference. Screen font size between n82 and e75, and yet again no difference. Gaming and graphics, there should not be difference between omnia hd and 3gs. A 6 for n86 and n96 in gaming and graphics is very high, sorry, especially the n96.
In general, the grid is a good evaluation of the devices' capabilities.