Nokia 5800 v Iphone

There's a limit to how big a screen you can have while maintaining the device as a handheld mobile phone. Three years ago I got an HTC Advantage which had a pretty good 5" screen but there was no way I'd hold it to my ear for a phonecall - there's always going to be some compromise, so it depends what you really want your device to excel at...

yep, can't say I'd want a screen much bigger than my wife's Galaxy as a phone, but I'm sure the 7" Tab will find plenty of happy users - much more convenient than an iPad, much more screen real estate than a phone; yet still pocketable and handbaggable. It's not actually clear yet whether the Tab will even be a phone as such.

Hmm, still dithering over this but have now broken my very, very old moby so need to get sorted asap.

Just wondering how anyone has got on using the samsung galaxy's GPS? I read a couple of forum post that said there were problems with coordinates that were awaiting a fix from a subsequent firmware release?

ALS - did you get to sneak a go with GPS on the wife's?

Many thanks,

Jim

Personally I'd chose a nokia over iphone any day of the week.  i-anything are always so buggy, I use to be a storeperson in an electronic store, and I believe they make them buggy so that you'll upgrade (spend more money) when the next one comes out.

It is however good to hear both sides of the story.  Nokia has never done me wrong in the past... I still have one of the first brand of '3G' phones released in NZ (from 2006), and the amount of times I'd dropped it (both on concrete and in puddles), it's only just given up the ghost the last couple of months.

Nokia 1 - iPhone 0 on my end

Lucky Jim - yep played with Viewranger on my wife's Samsung, seemed to work pretty good; the screen is superbly legible, way better than my iPod Touch, but both are in a different league to any Nokia I've ever seen. Whether I'd dare take a fancy phone onto the hill is a different matter, at the end of the day it is still a small screen and squinting at it or touching it in bad weather is not something I fancy.. For the time being, I'm happy with my Etrex H (£60, submersible, droppable onto rock) and MemoryMap route printouts (A4, printed at 1:25k, in waterproof Ortleib bag, routes entered on big laptop screen). Have a look at Grough route - online O/S mapping of the whole UK, route planning, gps downloads, £1.80 a month. Superb. I 'spose I'm saying that if you have other justifications for such a phone, and only go out in nice (but not too sunny) weather and have good eyesight, then Viewranger is a nice addition, but I think I shall stick to a dedicated solution. My wife is very happy with the phone as a smart phone though.