I used to love Nokia’s phones. I was proud to own the impressive n95, and later, the slim and great e71. My love affair with Nokia and Symbian stopped when I bought the disappointing n97 (slow, awful touch interface, buggy). I wanted to give Nokia one more chance, so my next phone was an Nokia N900. It wasn’t perfect, but still is one of the best gadgets I’ve ever owned. Its operating system, Maemo, is linux. Linux on a phone. It wasn’t a phone, it was a computer. Nokia’s lack of support for that wonderful operating system was, one more time, disappointing, and that’s when I decided it was time to move on and try something new. I needed to switch, and I wanted to try Android.
My first Android phone was the Samsung Galaxy S, and I recently upgraded to the Samsung i9100 Galaxy S II. I can honestly say, I’m happy since I started using Android.
One of the things I like the most is the apps. As a Nokia user, I always struggled to find a useful application for simple tasks like keeping a todo list, or logging work hours. Now, I have a few apps installed on my phone (from thousands available), that help me manage my time and my online life a bit better.
The Samsung Galaxy S II is an amazing piece of technology. Its screen is huge for a phone (like 15% bigger than an iphone, if I’m not mistaken). The phone is fast. After all, it has a dual core processor and 1GB of RAM. I no longer think of it as a phone, but as a computer.
It’s amazing how much phones have evolved (in part, thanks to the introduction of the revolutionary iPhone) in the past 5 years. I can’t imagine how awesome they’ll be in the next 5 years. That is, if the world doesn’t end in 2012.
Anyway, there is no point to my post, really. I just wanted to say I’m a happy Android user. Although, to be honest, most of my GTD stuff is now managed by my wonderful Ipad (I’m still using an Ipad 1; I’m not sure if an upgrade to the Ipad 2 is worth it).
What phone do you guys use?
