What is the best phone on the market?

Stinky · 17 Nov 2007 at 09:42

currently or upcoming in the next week or so. what is the best phone availalbe??

ideal im looking for camera rather than the gps side of things.

any thoughts would be apricated.

regards

Participant · 17 Nov 2007 at 10:10

K850i with 5MP camera I would have thought. Shame it's an absolute brick

Cuchulainn · 17 Nov 2007 at 10:20

N95 8GB.

mcc49 · 17 Nov 2007 at 11:52

N82 or Samsung G800 maybe on the upcoming phones front

MG42Maniac · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:10

N95 8GB technically speaking has no competition at all apart from the old N95.

Begbie · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:28

N95 that or erm the N95 8GB.

furnace · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:29

Go to the phone shop and look at both the N95 and the K850i

Ask to play with a real model, not just the display model

LeperousDust · 17 Nov 2007 at 18:45

N82 is out, but you'll be hard pressed to find it just yet... 5mp Xenon flash, GPS, Wifi, 3G, etc... etc... You won't get a better feature set on the market... It's not exactly miniscule mind though. For the same features sans 5mp and xenon, but VERY small look at the E51, "only" has a 2mp camera. You'll probably be hard pressed to find that too though...

platty · 17 Nov 2007 at 18:50

G800 looks a great option. Just released on Vodafone and available on T-Mobile soon. Am waiting to see if O2 will be doing it anytime soon.

Begbie · 17 Nov 2007 at 18:58

The N82 sounds like a N95?

MickeyFinns · 17 Nov 2007 at 19:23

the N82 is basically a no sliding N95.

The best phones are probably all the okia s60 ones i.e.

N82
N95
N95 8gb
E90

Morba · 17 Nov 2007 at 20:52

he wants a decent camera though, which makes me lean towards the SE phones rather than the N95.

best all rounder - n95

Youstolemyname · 17 Nov 2007 at 21:50

the battery life is shocking on the n95. I am in the process of getting rid of mine and replacing it with a 6500.

tom_e · 17 Nov 2007 at 21:51

Youstolemyname said:
the battery life is shocking on the n95. I am in the process of getting rid of mine and replacing it with a 6500.

the N95 8gb is a serious improvement though

<F0rb> · 17 Nov 2007 at 22:11

Unfortunately, there isn't just one good phone out right now

The K850i has the best camera, but only slightly over the N95 8GB, which has the best feature set of all phones, but is bulky. The 6500 classicis the best looking phone, but has nothing special about it. Then there is the iPhone of course, which has a poor camera/no 3g/expensive, but is the best music phone.
The N82 which should be around soon seems the best compromise, the whole feature set of the N95 ( is that right ?) is a smaller/thinner candybar style form.

It's a hard choice...

Begbie · 17 Nov 2007 at 22:22

The camera on the N95 is better than digicams that were out 2-3 years ago and still better than cheap ones out just now. IMO.

MickeyFinns · 17 Nov 2007 at 23:04

The problem with the nokia ones is the lenses. I really wish they would stop raving on about carl zeiss optics as theyre not exactly incredible.

mcc49 · 17 Nov 2007 at 23:16

MickeyFinns said:
The problem with the nokia ones is the lenses. I really wish they would stop raving on about carl zeiss optics as theyre not exactly incredible.

Same with Sony's Cybershot branding on their phones really, but I do agree that the quality of the lens does quite little impact when the phone uses inferior cmos sensors to proper digital cameras to save cost and battery life. I would never really buy a phone due to it's camera as a main selling poiny, no matter how many megapixels it is the quality is still bad compared to a proper camera, it just gives a bigger image at the end of the day. Although a half decent camera is useful in those spur of the moment things you want to capture.