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		<title>I want a new phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking around lately for a new phone but just can&#8217;t seem to find anything that fits in with what I want. At the moment I have the O2 Xda Orbit II which at the beginning I saw as a great upgrade from the original Obit but it&#8217;s just starting to annoy me now. I&#8217;m getting sick of touch  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been looking around lately for a new phone but just can&#8217;t seem to find anything that fits in with what I want. At the moment I have the <a href="http://businessshop.o2.co.uk/phone_detail.aspx?id=133&#038;groupid=4" target="_blank">O2 Xda Orbit II</a> which at the beginning I saw as a great upgrade from the original Obit but it&#8217;s just starting to annoy me now. I&#8217;m getting sick of touch screen keyboards, my thumbs are not made for those and the number of txt messages I send has decreased because of it (not a bad thing). Then there&#8217;s just small issues like no headphone jack, I have to remember to take the adapter with me whenever I&#8217;m travelling but more often than not it gets left behind. The other problem is the screen itself because there&#8217;s some sort of shiny reflective coating on the screen it means it&#8217;s next to impossible to use out doors and you have to constantly wipe it.</p>
<p>Now for the good points, the screen size is great for watching movies whenever I do remeber to bring the headphone adapter. The micro SD card goes into a slot on the side where as before you had to take the battery out and finally it runs pretty quick on windows mobile 6 making media players and sat sav programs real easy to use.</p>
<p>Now as I said at the start I want to change to a new phone but just can&#8217;t find anything that will tempt me away and no I don&#8217;t want an iPhone. Now don&#8217;t get me wrong I like the Macs and the iPods but I just can&#8217;t bring myself to like the iPhone. I see it has a huge waste by a company that had a chance to make something great. Just a quick point if you&#8217;re going to bring out a product that&#8217;s suppose to be the best and most state of the art of it&#8217;s kind then you&#8217;d want that product to do all and have all the basic features that your competitors have and do, most people should know what I&#8217;m talking about here.</p>
<p>Anyway the things I want in my new phone would be:</p>
<ul>
<li>Some sort of QWERTY keyboard</li>
<li>3G</li>
<li>GPS</li>
<li>Some form of large internal memory and if not, a memory card slot</li>
<li>Headphone socket on the phone, no need for external adapters</li>
<li>WiFi</li>
<li>Windows Mobile, so that I can install my own programs</li>
</ul>
<p>Now looking at those points you&#8217;d think that souldn&#8217;t be to hard to find but as of yet I&#8217;ve come up short. I&#8217;ve looked around and the cloest I could find was the <a href="http://www.htc.com" target="_blank">HTC Touch range</a>. The <a href="http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchpro/overview.html" target="_blank">Touch pro</a> looks perfect until you look at the two models up from it and I&#8217;m left thinking if only the <a href="http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchhd/overview.html" target="_blank">Touch HD</a> had the keyboard from the pro and I&#8217;d be running out to buy one.</p>
<p>Another one I found was the <a href="http://www.mwg.com/zinc-ii.aspx" target="_blank">MWg Zinc II</a> again looks really good but I think I&#8217;d still have trouble with it&#8217;s keyboard.</p>
<p>I was about to give up until I saw a piece in yesterday&#8217;s Irish Times In Gear magazine about gadgets for 2009 and they mentioned the new <a href="http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/" target="_blank">Palm pre</a> coming out later this year. Now this looks like a real interesting phone apart from the fact it will use the palm OS it could be well worth looking at and is being tipped as the iPhone killer. There&#8217;s a few videos of it on YouTube but this one gives a good quick overview</p>
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<p>So I&#8217;m left with the choice, if anyone wants to leave a comment swaying me one way or another or even better if any of the companies want to send me a phone to test that would be great.</p>
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