Need new phone.

[SagaLore]

Busted my phone, need to find a new one out of contract.

Criteria:

- Actually works as a phone (you'd think this would be obvious, but many new phones are bad at being phones)
- Good web browser
- Will run Pandora
- and has good sound output for headset (I don't care about builtin speaker quality)
- Will run google maps
- Has QWERTY keypad
- Has full touchscreen
- has good text messaging interface
- Has really good camera

That's it.

Suggestions?

oh - and I have AT&T.

 

[s44]

Carrier?

 

[MrX8503]

Motorola Droid 2 maybe?

 

[vshah]

iphone 4?

 

[s44]

iphone 4?

Has to make phone calls.

OP, AT&T doesn't have any real full QWERTY touchscreens. You'd have to import a Desire Z from Canada (Bell Mobility has it, same 3G bands) or something. Alternately, you can:
(1) skip the QWERTY and get the Captivate
(2) skip the real touchscreen and get the Torch, the Backflip, or the one of the WebOS phones
(3) skip the ability to make calls and get the iPhone 4

 

[finbarqs]

palm pre 2 does ALL of the above, + more!

 

[dougp]

Has to make phone calls.

OP, AT&T doesn't have any real full QWERTY touchscreens. You'd have to import a Desire Z from Canada (Bell Mobility has it, same 3G bands) or something. Alternately, you can:
(1) skip the QWERTY and get the Captivate
(2) skip the real touchscreen and get the Torch, the Backflip, or the one of the WebOS phones
(3) skip the ability to make calls and get the iPhone 4

*cough bullshit cough*

LG Quantum. Only thing it *doesn't* have is Google Maps - but you get Bing! Maps. And I wouldn't be surprised if Google Maps is coming at some point soon.

 

[rudeguy]

I'm not aware of any full QWERTY phones available on ATT that would suit your needs.

 

[Bateluer]

AT&T won't have a wide range of Android options for a while. Adding more would anger His Holiness, so they keep their Android selection very limited.

 

[Pliablemoose]

*cough bullshit cough*

LG Quantum. Only thing it *doesn't* have is Google Maps - but you get Bing! Maps. And I wouldn't be surprised if Google Maps is coming at some point soon.

Can't you download Google maps from the marketplace?

 

[dougp]

Can't you download Google maps from the marketplace?

No GM in the Zune App Marketplace.

 

[MrX8503]

AT&T won't have a wide range of Android options for a while. Adding more would anger His Holiness, so they keep their Android selection very limited.

I guess you've never heard of WP7

 

[Pliablemoose]

No GM in the Zune App Marketplace.

LOL, don't have my WM phones straight yet.

God I hate Bing Maps, the thing that pisses me off the most is the way it doesn't reorient when you turn...

 

[zokudu]

This is exactly what I want in a phone. I played with a Quantum but found the keyboard ot be...."fat" I guess? The buttons were very large I guess. I'm waiting to see if anything new comes out with either WP7 or Android but at the moment nothing.

 

[SagaLore]

How about this one?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...044&CatId=5117

 

[zokudu]

How about this one?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...044&CatId=5117

The quickfire has a major battery flaw and was known to catch on fire until it was discontinued by AT&T