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Solve : HP plans new smartphones.? |
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Answer» Yes, HP reportedly plans to launch new smartphones due to the fact that there's a huge lack of smartphones with a hardware keyboard I may just be desperate I swore I would never get a phone with only a touch screen, until I actually did get one. (A ZTE Blade 3 from Virgin Mobile - outright purchase £70 and a £7 a month sim-only contract with 500 MB, 150 minutes and unlimited texts) (Update - I see they have REDUCED it to £40 since I got it in May). The ZTE Blade series are great budget smartphones, ditto the Lumia 520 (Windows Phone rather than Android), Moto G at a slightly higher price point, and Huawei Y300. Absolute bargains IMO. I had a series of Blackberries, when they were "proper" Blackberries, then moved to a HTC Desire Z with the slide out keyboard. I had that for 2 years and "upgraded" to an LG Optimus 4X, which I've had for around 8 months now and was my first touchscreen only phone. I really regret buying it as I honestly do use it much less than my HTC, the amount of texts I use has measurably decreased quite dramatically and I very rarely write emails or forum posts on it whereas I would do that all the time on my HTC. If I could go back in time I would've hung onto my Desire Z until I could save enough to import a Droid 4 from the US as that's the only semi recent Android I know of with a keyboard, and therefore probably the only semi recent phone I could actually use as I want to. Everyone told me that once I got used to it I would love it, and that with a much bigger screen than my HTC it would be easier to type on, but I'm really not happy with it at all. I really, really, don't like typing on a touch screen!For my purposes the ZTE is FINE; I was getting tired of my £20 Alcatel featurephone, I read a review (early 2013) that called it an entry-level Android phone with mid-level features; I don't do a lot of typing on it - to be honest I mainly use it as an mp3 player so I can listen to downloaded BBC Radio 4 material & audiobooks in the bus to & from work and rail journeys between Bristol and London for work. I put a redundant 32 GB card in it. It works fine as a phone, and I do find it HANDY having Google Maps (and search) in my pocket. I don't live on Facebook and I don't care about the slow camera, I have a Nikon Coolpix for photos. Firefox 26 keeps crashing so I have moved to Chrome. The ZTE is a great phone for the price, definitely. All I want in a phone is a good screen, good battery life, and a keyboard - sadly, that last seems to be an unwanted feature for most so has been cut completely from the smartphone market here. I used to use my HTC for calls, texts, emails and forum posts, and I use my LG for the same however I don't write emails or posts unless it's important, 99% of the time I only read and browse, and just respond later when I'm at a computer. I very, very occasionally use the camera but like you, I have a camera for photos, so using an inferior camera makes little sense. I just find that since switching to this phone my usage has gone down dramatically, which is purely due to the lack of a physical keyboard. Incidentally as you mentioned Chrome & FF, I've never got on with the older stock Android browser or the bundled Chrome browser, so I use Opera which has a neat "off road mode" where pages are compressed. I have unlimited data so it's not the data usage I'm concerned about but pages do load quite a bit faster even on relatively decent spec phones like MINE, I also prefer the UI. |
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