What is your opinion regarding smartphones?

Do you find them useful or do you consider them a waste of money?

Do you own one and if you do, which?

I love mine. I got my iPhone 3GS the day the 4G came out, so I got it for $99, which was a steal in my opinion. There's not enough the 4G can do that mine can't. I mean, higher quality screen, faster processor and front facing camera? That doesn't warrant an extra $300 in my opinion. I find them extremely useful if you are into that stuff. My mom and her boyfriend shouldn't get them because they don't need mobile email, internet, games, etc.

So if they don't need it, why do you? What kinds of things do you use on your phone that are important to you?

I use a Motorola Droid running Liquid Gingerbread 2.4 (Android 2.3.4) I love it, I use it as a media player when out and about. I would never go over to Apple products, they are just too locked down. (Unfortunately my new car is designed mainly for Apple oriented people, which is slightly annoying).

I really dont play games on it. It has a 16GB SD card in it, (but I only need about 3 GB of storage, as all my music is stored on a server at home and streamed online) I use it as a wifi hotspot as well. And a reader for e-books.

What car do you own?

I think they're brilliant, and very useful if you utilise them well, if that makes sense. I pretty much only use my very old and not very smart at all phone to text, so something like that would be wasted on me. I would quite like my next phone to have a decent camera on it though.

I do not own a smartphone currently, but I fully intend to get one.

Just got a 2012 Mini Cooper. There is supposedly a really good app called http://www.minispace.com/en_us/article/mini-connected/456/?eid=456 on the Ipod/Iphone app store, but its not on available on Android.

I just love my iPhone, it's rad.

I get this feeling though that people seem to put down iPhone owners quite a bit, in making the wrong phone decision and then bleat on about how Android is so very much better than iOS and stuff like that. Yeah, the battery life ain't brilliant on the iPhone but then what battery life is brilliant when you use said devise so much and find things easier using it generally. I saved up a lot of money to buy an iPhone 4 at its prime, so I didn't fall in the trap of a pay monthly scheme (which works out usually more expensive than everyone thinks) and I'm absolutely smitten with it, honest. I honestly don't get how Androids are any better, can someone enlighten me?

I've had my OG Droid (running CyanogenMod 7 Nightly build) for over two years now. I'll be buying a Droid Bionic later today. I'll miss my OG Droid a lot - though I know it will go to a good home.

I got a HTC Evo 4G, I love it.

Nah. My http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/DynaTAC8000X.jpg/220px-DynaTAC8000X.jpg is more than good enough for me.

Question: Do you compile statistics or something? You always ask a lot of questions, even to other members, but you never reply or acknowledge the replies...

I owned my first smartphone a few months ago after my mum dropped and broke my Moto V3 Razr. I now have an HTC Wildfire S. I love it really. If I had not broken my mobile I wouldn't have bought a smartphone, but now that I own one I can never go back. Also, I love sending free texts via Whatsapp. ^_^

Got an Iphone 3GS so my brother dident have to pay to unlock it so he could use another operator for the cellphone.
It's a stupid design, no buttons, how are you supposed to call 911? on a regular phone with buttons even if it's locked you can call 911 without unlocking it.
I warned my father about getting an Iphonny 4 because there's not much difference and it has more problems, now after a month he can barely use it, the touch has stoped working and sometimes the touch reacts 1 min after he touched it.

Might go back to my Ericsson, high quality, throw it into a wall, nothing, smash it with a car, nothing. Iphone = drop it from 10 cm, Crash boom, the glass is broken ( why dident they use hard plastic that doesn't break?)

I envy everyone who has the money for a smartphone Can't wait 'till my Samsung Corby dies, which would give me the perfect excuse to myself to buy a smartphone Probably would go for an HTC or a Samsung Galaxy (I prefer Android)

To quote my mom's boyfriend, "Yeah, Jeff texted me once. I called him back and told him not to do that again."

That's why they don't need smart phones.

To poor for even an old cellphone, I rely on a land line >_>

I don't own one but I'd like to/might in the near future. I would like to use it as a media player also and lose the separate mp3 player. Having access to my email, especially work, would be convenient. I'd probably go with a Droid, my boss had one and it was pretty cool.

For now I've got a Samsung Propel.

iPhone and Android are both equally good. However, some people bash iPhone for being overpriced and too simplistic while at the same time iPhone owners bash others for not owning an iPhone, the reason being that it's just 'trendy.

I've got the LG Ally running the Android OS and rooted.

I got it cause it was on sale and cheap. Then my wife wanted one and she got one that wasn't on sale and not cheap. I like having a smart phone. But I hate the one I got. I guess there was a reason why it was only $50 when I bought it. The thing is a piece of junk. But, I'm stuck with it until next August.

I quite like my smartphone (Nokia E52), mainly because of http://www.sports-tracker.com/ and ScummVM. But they are pretty much the only pieces of software I use that doesn't come with a dumbphone. I still mainly just use it for texts and as a portable music player, and any modern dumbphone do those things well.

Also, it's neither a iOS or Android phone, but a Symbian phone which is a much less demanding OS. I only need to charge it about once a week.

I've got an iPhone 4 and love it. Even though it was pretty expensive ($300 after taxes with a 3 year contract,) and doesn't have a very fast processor, or much memory (compared to cheaper android phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S II,) I still love it, and think it was a great purchase. I use it all the time for texting (which I do a lot,) listening to music, surfing the web when I'm somewhere without WiFi, social networking, playing games, tethering it to other devices for surfing the web outside of a WiFi range, and much more. The monthly bill is a small price to pay for all the stuff I can do with it. I do sort of regret getting an iPhone 4 when it first came out, rather than waiting for an Android device that I liked to be released, such as the Samsung Galaxy SII, with it's dual-core processor, 1gb of ram, 8 megapixel camera, and massive screen, but I would miss the responsiveness of the iPhone's touchscreen, and the IPS screen, which I do prefer over the AMOLED that the Galaxy has.