PHONES

[laceblade]

I want a cool phone!
I will take phone advice from people who have it. My current carrier is Sprint.

Things I want my phone to do:
--have a Twitter app
--let me take pictures & post them with Instagram
--let me use Google maps to travel the bus around this city (my free parking spot at work is going away next month, *sob*)
--a place to write notes, so that I always know which volumes of manga I have/need, EVEN IF I FORGET THE NOTE CARDS AT HOME!
--call people
--text people
--allow me to utilize the Crunchyroll app to watch anime


(I don't give a shit about reading e-books on the phone; I have an e-reader for that, which I like.)

MY ASSUMPTION: Any smart phone will do all of these things, and it really doesn't fucking matter which one I pick. Is this true?
I'm assuming my choice is Droid vs. iPhone. Isn't Droid the one that had those weird, sexist ads when it came out?

Comments

[raanve]

I have a Google phone - Samsung Nexus S - the Google "flagship" phones are available across carriers, and I think the newest is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. I love my phone. I used to have an iPhone & I probably won't go back b/c I've been really happy with Android and the way that it's so well integrated into Google, which ... Google pretty much owns my life, so that makes everything easier. (I felt, too, that either I would have Apple running my life or Google, and Google seemed more user-friendly if not less evil corporately, so.. yeah.) I use my old iPhone as an iPod touch now, but Nick runs all his music through his phone & seems happy w/it.

I am (as you know) a heavy twitter user & I use Twicca -- which is not a very well known app, but which I like a lot better than some of the other more popular ones. Lots of folks use Plume on Android, and there are a few others, almost all free. I'd recommend just experimenting with them (regardless of whether you go iPhone or Android) and see what feels best to you.

I use Instagram on my Android; I've noticed no difference between that & the iPhone version.

I've found my Android to be much more customizable & flexible than my iPhone ever was, but that may've changed some in new iPhone iterations. (I had an iPhone 3G.) I saw you mention Siri on twitter, and while Android doesn't have a Siri, the voice controls/capabilities are quite good and are rapidly getting even better. With the new OS update that's coming out, there will be a thing called Google Now, which I'm kind of curious about and which seems to sort of be Android's answer to Siri, except maybe with less twee?

Whatever you decide, try to get your hands on operational models and poke around before buying.