Which best smartphone do you have? | Telecom Consumer Discussion Forums

23and14and20 said

for me only iphone and/or samsung andriod phone.  definitely windows-based is big no-no.

Windows phones have come a long way in recent times, although I would wait for the windows 8.1 release, as it introduces a few new interesting features and fixes several long standing issues. Windows or should I say microsoft has of late invested over 1 billion dollars into windows phone and is aiming to bring on new manufacturers; Those that have confirmed approaches include existing manufacture Samsung, Sony and if you buy into the rumour mill HTC – who for the longest time built virtually all the windows devices.

Just to go that one step further i think it’s Acer (unsure) that released a new device last weak that dual boots android and windows phone allowing both OS’s to reside upon the device – this is something intel are looking into big time so being agnostic about specific operating systems on devices no longer really applies – honestly I think I can use any device as long as the specs of the device are good I’m more than willing to put the time and effort into making it function towards my needs, although everyone has their own thoughts on how to approach such issues.

I actually for now, again as mentioned in another post run a local PH made device (well marketed as a PH device, it’s chinese made..) until my wife’s ID is resolved as I’m unable to get it sorted myself. Once thats sorted I have an array of vendors to look at but right now I’m in love with the Note 3 failing that.. LG G Flex, failing that probably the Xperia Z1 etc etc

I would agree that saying the best smart phone in the world is applicable to the person writing it, not everyone in general – personally I struggle in this area as I have platform loyalty rather than brand, although there are several brands I just would not go near but thats a whole other matter. I think of all the devices out at the moment the ones that appeal to me are the Note 3 from Samsung, The Xperia Z1s from Sony, LG G2 from LG (duh) and the iPhone 5s… that said I’m eager to see how the M8 turns out as it could quickly make my list given how great the HTC One was.

Can’t say I have much love for the Galaxy S5 it’s really a poor poor incarnation which offers very little in terms of wow factor like the devices prior to it did .. looks like Samsung may have jumped the shark with this one.. not a special device.