Smartphone for my Wife

[smartpatrol]

Wrong 🙂 My wife loves her SGSII and she hates the iPhone.

I believe the AT&T SGSII had a slide out keyboard too but I could be wrong. I thought it was the only US carrier to have the keyboard.

AT&T has the Captivate Glide. It's sort of a mid-range device, though. IIRC it's Tegra 2 and SAMOLED (not plus).

 

[alent1234]

Why, exactly, is it the best? I've set up our Exchange email at work on other people's iPhones... and I find nothing special or better about how the iPhone handles Exchange active sync compared to Android (or BES, for that matter).

on my droid pro it's a huge PITA to have more than one account set up. on my old HTC it wasn't that bad. pretty awesome to do it on my ipad when i need to troubleshoot something in the data center

the HTC i had didn't do push to sub folders, only to the inbox

on iOS there is a screen with all the folders and/or accounts, on android you have to press a button to bring it up and the back button likes to kick you out of the email app. at least on my droid pro.

iOS 5 has this cool feature to display emails on my lock screen so i don't even have to unlock the phone most of the time


my droid pro doesn't have the unread count in the folder list. i think HTC does this, but i'm not sure

 

[zsdersw]

on my droid pro it's a huge PITA to have more than one account set up. on my old HTC it wasn't that bad. pretty awesome to do it on my ipad when i need to troubleshoot something in the data center

the HTC i had didn't do push to sub folders, only to the inbox

on iOS there is a screen with all the folders and/or accounts, on android you have to press a button to bring it up and the back button likes to kick you out of the email app. at least on my droid pro.

iOS 5 has this cool feature to display emails on my lock screen so i don't even have to unlock the phone most of the time


my droid pro doesn't have the unread count in the folder list. i think HTC does this, but i'm not sure

... none of which makes anything "the best".

 

[alent1234]

yes it does, iOS mail client lets me check my email with less input and navigating around the app. i can slide the slider on my lock screen and go right to the email. or a 2 second glance at the unread count will tell me if i have any email i haven't read in an important folder.

on android i actually have to go folder by folder to check my email

 

[zsdersw]

yes it does, iOS mail client lets me check my email with less input and navigating around the app. i can slide the slider on my lock screen and go right to the email. or a 2 second glance at the unread count will tell me if i have any email i haven't read in an important folder.

on android i actually have to go folder by folder to check my email

On the specific devices you mentioned. Sliding the slider on the lock screen can take you directly to email on many implementations of Android as well. The unread count and new email is available per folder on some implementations of Android, too.

TouchWiz's email app is probably the best one I've ever used. It does everything the iOS mail client does.

For instance, the slider can usually be configured to open SMS, Email, the Phone, or a web browser window. It's that way on the newer versions of Sense and TouchWiz, probably others too.

iOS may be better than the Android devices you've used, but that doesn't mean it's universally "the best" at handling email.