need ugrent recommendation for android phone, please help me soon

[roboto12]

Hi Guys,

I needed to get a new phone since my blackberry is dying.
I got a apple 3GS yeseterday to hold me off since droid x and incredible is not available. However apple will only check for emails every 15 min. It won't check any faster. My blackberry was instant.
I run a business where I need need to know soon as email comes in or I might lose orders... This is life line for me.
So 3GS is going back, and Iphone 4 is out of questions(probably same problem).

I have 3 choices. Which would you recommend?

1. ATT captivate(samsung galaxy s)
Good:
good screen
ATT has economical plan w/ 900min and 2GB internet for $85 per month
Free tethering with samsung kies
bad:
might have gps problem
no flash: this might be huge since it's is almost useless as camera indoors

2. verizon droid x

everything looks good but the the screen is older kind

bad :
verizon is expensive: 900min and internet and tethering is $120 per month.
I suppose I can get by with less minutes for $100.

3. verizon incredible

almost good as others and no real problem but still verizon is expensive

Which would you recommend. Now that i have 3GS, I can wait until I get any of the phones and return this one.
As I said, my reall needs are email(fast check), internet, good call quality, sometimes use of camera.


Please help me guys.

 

[tatteredpotato]

If you need to have emails immediately, you might want to pay the extra for VZWs better network.

AFAIK the iPhone should have push email (as well as Android) so you should be able to get emails near instantly.

 

[gsaldivar]

You really should spend some time researching the capabilities of the devices before buying, especially since your email is mission-critical to your business.

This might help:

You can do real-time "push" email on the iPhone 3GS with Exchange Activesync (EAS). This requires that you have an Exchange server to handle your email, so you might get this through your work, or you can also purchase a hosted Exchange account (mailstreet.com for example), or you can use Google Apps Premier to do this. Once you have an Exchange account, simply set all your other email accounts to forward directly to this one.

Once you link your phone to your hosted email account, you will get all your email pushed to your phone in real-time, as well as all of your contacts and calendar - no more 15 minute delay. Any change on your computer gets pushed immediately to the phone, and vice-versa. You will need to use Outlook (PC) or Entourage (Mac) on your computer to get all the features for this.

This is the closest you can get to BES (Blackberry Enterprise) on a non-Blackberry device. Traditionally, all carriers charge extra for BES (+$15 month or so) and will block non-enterprise Blackberry customers from receiving email via BES. However, I don't believe there is currently any restriction on using EAS. This means you can get the near-BES quality enterprise-class service without having to pay the extra $15 monthly, on non-Blackberry devices.

Alternatively, you can try Google Android, which also allows you to do all the syncing in real-time using its own platform. This means you will need to migrate all of your existing email, contacts, calendar to Gmail in order to get it to sync to your phone. Works similarly to the EAS method, and its cheaper and is becoming very widely used. I don't consider this an enterprise-class solution though, my business customers prefer the added features that EAS gives them.

In any case, be aware that you will burn through your battery rather quickly with real-time email. Especially on these new devices with 3 or 4" LCD screens and gigahertz processors... these are full-featured phones with a full appetite for power, and you might find that you need an upgraded battery to compensate for the extra tasks. Here is the upgrade I purchase for my Incredible, while it looks big in the picture, it's quite reasonable in size for this relatively small phone and gives me a full day of heavy use with real-time email:

http://www.seidioonline.com/product-p/bacy35hddn-bk.htm
http://imgur.com/ECyJ2&kTwrBl&cQjyn&vVonN?full

More info:

http://blog.fosketts.net/guides/iphone-exchange-activesync/

One more thing...

verizon is expensive

Yes, it is.

However, since you are coming from AT&T, I can assure you that you will immediately see where your money is going once you start using Verizon's network...

Good luck!

 

[akugami]

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2625

From Apple's website.

 

[boomhower]

I would skip the Incredible due to the usability of the screen outdoors and go with either the Droid X or captivate. I don't like AT&T's 2GB restriction at all. With the X, it has already been rooted so you can do that and use wireless tether and skip the tethering fee if you are only going to be using it lightly. Have you checked Sprint coverage in your area? The EVO is very nice(it's what I use) and Sprint's prices are tough to beat.

Your off on AT&T's price. 900 minutes plus data and tethering is $105, and that doesn't include any texts either.

 

[roboto12]

Hi Guys

Thank you guys for the replies. Figured out the problem. By using google apps to host my email and using google sync, I can push the email to iphone. The email notice is almost instantaneous like the black berry.
I think I will use the GS3 for a while until I can really decide on my next phone. I will probably give this to my wife.
I hearf that dual core phones are coming soon.

As for the tethering with captivate. You do not need to pay for tethering fee because there is hack for this one as well. Also I do not use texting so this why I said the bill for me would be $85.

boomhower, how do you like EVO? I really want to get a big screen, but the battery life on this one is what I was really worried about.
Also my employee has a sprint htc and he needs to step out to get clean signal sometimes...

 

[Rottie]

buy another new blackberry for instant fast email!

 

[gsaldivar]

buy another new blackberry for instant fast email!

Why pay an extra $360.00 over 2 years (above the cost of the phone and plan) for the same real-time email you can get with EAS or Android?

 

[zsdersw]

2. verizon droid x

everything looks good but the the screen is older kind

The screen technology used couldn't matter less. What counts is how it looks to you and how it functions in your environment.

 

[skittzle]

The screen technology used couldn't matter less. What counts is how it looks to you and how it functions in your environment.

I might be wrong but doesn't the screen technology directly relate to how it looks and functions? Better tech = better visual experience.

 

[zsdersw]

I might be wrong but doesn't the screen technology directly relate to how it looks and functions? Better tech = better visual experience.

No. Things like LCD vs AMOLED and pixel density don't have anything to do with stuff like multitouch or how the on-screen keyboard works or whether holding your finger down on something has a different function than just tapping it.

How it looks is a matter of personal preference and usage profile. If you're outside in the sun a lot with your phone, yeah, you probably don't want a phone with an AMOLED screen. Some people think the colors are too bold or washed out with AMOLED or LCDs, while others like it that way or don't care.

 

[AMDZen]

I needed to get a new phone since my blackberry is dying.
I got a apple 3GS yeseterday to hold me off since droid x and incredible is not available. However apple will only check for emails every 15 min. It won't check any faster. My blackberry was instant.

Bullshit. I can't tell if you are being serious or if you are just making this up on purpose as flame/troll bait.

I would help but I don't see how you can possibly be serious.

 

[AMDZen]

Hi Guys

Thank you guys for the replies. Figured out the problem. By using google apps to host my email and using google sync, I can push the email to iphone. The email notice is almost instantaneous like the black berry.

What are you talking about? Why not just use the built in mail application of the iPhone? It has instant push just like every smart phone out there.

Maybe I was wrong on my last post since I didn't see this one.

 

[gsaldivar]

Bullshit. I can't tell if you are being serious or if you are just making this up on purpose as flame/troll bait.

I would help but I don't see how you can possibly be serious.

It might actually be a legitimate misunderstanding.

iOS3 devices are fully EAS compatible for Exchange email, and will allow users to setup the device on an Exchange server. However, email syncing prefs are buried one level deep in the setup menus.

Finding this EAS sync prefs may lead the user to believe that they have discovered how to enable push (real-time) email, however that is not the case. Under that level there is a ANOTHER level which includes a single preference setting specifically for enabling push email...

Why Apple chose to obscure this feature in the setup screen rather than present it more clearly and prominently is a matter of debate. Personally, I think they are deliberately trying to assist AT&T in minimizing network traffic by revealing the critical push email setting to only knowledgeable users...