Help!

Tefral

Im looking for a bit of help. Im an iOS man and haven’t a clue about android or windows based phones being honest. I do know that most people that know anything about phones tend to have Android phones so thats telling in itself

Im looking to help my father choose his next upgrade and the Iphone isn’t in the list so I need to help him find the best one from the list below.

He uses the camera quite a bit for recording accident damage etc so a decent camera is a must. Something with a reasonable battery life is also required as he is on the phone quite a bit. Price is not important and its with Vodafone.

Useful things like GPS, 3g, Wifi would also be great but most phones have these as standard now.

So what im asking is if it was your money which would you buy:

HTC:
Desire S
Explorer
Wildfire S
Sensation
Radar
Titan

Nokia:
Lumina 800

Samsung
Galaxy Ace
Galaxy Nexus
Galaxy S Plus
Galaxy S2
Galaxy Y

Sony Ericsson
Experia Arc

Atomic Pineapple

Since cost is no issue you can already eliminate the budget devices and cut the list down to the following options:

HTC:
Sensation
Radar

Nokia:
Lumina 800

Samsung
Galaxy Nexus
Galaxy S2

Of those I have experience with all except the HTC Radar and to be perfectly honest they're all excellent devices that will do what your father wants easily, the only way to really choose would be on personal preference.

Tefral

How does the Lumina Stack up against the andriods? He likes Nokias, but thats only because thats all hes had as a phone. Ive also had to break the news to him that buttons on phones are gone:D

Atomic Pineapple

cronin_j wrote: »

How does the Lumina Stack up against the andriods? He likes Nokias, but thats only because thats all hes had as a phone. Ive also had to break the news to him that buttons on phones are gone:D

It's pretty good, its fast, slick and nice to use, if he wants a phone just for telephony stuff + the camera then its the best no nonsense option.

pigeon999

I have an Android phone but I'd recommend a Windows Phone because it's simpler than Android. So any of the windows phone. There all pretty much the same except for camera and screen size. So the Titan is a really big phone. Nokia is slightly bigger than the iPhone.

Vahevala

I think it depends on how good your father may be at technology also. My Dad was sold into a Samsung Galaxy S but it was too techy for his needs (he has memory issues having suffered a stroke) and the phone is too much for him.

Will he use the internet much? Does he need to access emails? If not, maybe go for a more basic phone and there are phones with buttons out there (if he searches hard enough!!)

multimate

cronin_j wrote: »

Im looking for a bit of help. Im an iOS man and haven’t a clue about android or windows based phones being honest. I do know that most people that know anything about phones tend to have Android phones so thats telling in itself

Im looking to help my father choose his next upgrade and the Iphone isn’t in the list so I need to help him find the best one from the list below.

He uses the camera quite a bit for recording accident damage etc so a decent camera is a must. Something with a reasonable battery life is also required as he is on the phone quite a bit. Price is not important and its with Vodafone.

Useful things like GPS, 3g, Wifi would also be great but most phones have these as standard now.

So what im asking is if it was your money which would you buy:

HTC:
Desire S
Explorer
Wildfire S
Sensation
Radar
Titan

Nokia:
Lumina 800

Samsung
Galaxy Ace
Galaxy Nexus
Galaxy S Plus
Galaxy S2
Galaxy Y

Sony Ericsson
Experia Arc

i'd reccomend windows phone for ease of use, but android has all the apps and is better for internet browsing. htc rader (wp7) or htc sensation (ics update) imo. you could wait for wp8 to come out as there will probably be deals on wp7 devices and wp8 devices will be faster.

Tefral

Vahevala wrote: »

I think it depends on how good your father may be at technology also. My Dad was sold into a Samsung Galaxy S but it was too techy for his needs (he has memory issues having suffered a stroke) and the phone is too much for him.

Will he use the internet much? Does he need to access emails? If not, maybe go for a more basic phone and there are phones with buttons out there (if he searches hard enough!!)

He wouldnt be massively techy however he is one hell of a quick learner so in essence it wouldnt be a problem. I suppose its more that alot of the phones would have things that would have no interest to him.

I couldnt imagine him playing angry birds now or anything like that. He would use the email feature and again the camera being decent would be a requirement for taking quick pictures on the go with work.