Question:
Which phone is better the HTC Touch Pro2, the Sharp Sidekick 2009, or the iPhone 3G?
anonymous
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Which phone is better the HTC Touch Pro2, the Sharp Sidekick 2009, or the iPhone 3G?
Thirteen answers:
Bob
2009-08-21 23:52:33 UTC
iPhone 3g is by far the most versatile and user friendly of these devices. The sidekick is good if you only want to text, but if you plan to do any web browsing or multimedia, the iPhone 3gs is your best option.
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2016-05-26 08:16:25 UTC
well first you should find out which phone service you want and what service gets signal in your area and where you need signal. THEN decide which phone is the best from you from that network.. also which network you can afford. __ iphone is the best though __
numanuma201
2009-08-24 16:14:46 UTC
Iphone, if you can wait for mms/
The Wiseman ®™
2009-08-24 16:06:43 UTC
Thats a pretty good question. I've spent some time with all three and its a little bit hard to say which is better between touch pro2 and iphone, because the features on the touch are outstanding.

But, the iphone does surpass most phones on the market.



Its simple: if you dont want to spend a lot of money but still want a really good phone with plenty of features, you would have to get the touch pro 2. If you want a phone thats fun to use for multimedia purposes, get the Iphone.



If it was me I would probably get the iphone, because its a fun phone.



<------------------Hope this helps------------>
Sammy
2009-08-22 05:45:39 UTC
iphone 3G
Ria
2009-08-24 14:32:46 UTC
sidekick i have one and i love itt !!!! 100% recommend it to anyone
Rory
2009-08-22 22:02:20 UTC
iPhone 3G.



I have all of these phones, except I have the 3GS.



All of them are really cool phones but even the other two can't touch the 3G.
RZ
2009-08-22 11:53:38 UTC
these are very different phones but yet similiar. the iphone 3g is a full touch screen phone that is extremely easy to use.



the htc touch pro 2 is a great phone with more features than the other 2 phones. it has one of the best qwerty keyboards with a very responsive resistive touch screen. this phone is more for business users who need a powerful phone



the sidekick 09 is a great texting phone generated towards a younger audience.



the touch pro 2 is easily the best phone in terms of features and functionality. the iphone however, has a better design that has most of the touch pro's features but work better. the iphone also has many great apps available in the app store. the sidekick is not a touch screen phone and its only major highlight is the keyboard.



however if i were to get 1 of these phones, i would get the iphone because the touch pro 2 is extremely overpriced while being bulky and the features on the phone are excessive and some are cumbersome to use.
anonymous
2009-08-22 11:24:00 UTC
i would say the sidekick lx 09 and the touchpro2 is really expensive for a cellphone
Brian
2009-08-23 20:24:17 UTC
That's pretty diverse. Let's start with the major differences. The HTC Touch Pro2 and iPhone are full on smartphones, with a real smartphone operating system (Windows Mobile 6.1 and iPhone OS 3.0, respectively). The Sidekick runs DangerOS, which some don't consider to be a real smartphone OS, because lack of specific features, such as a document viewer. The iPhone can natively open and view lots of standard files including Excel Spreadsheet, Word Doc, and PDF, and with the use of an app, iPhone can also edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. HTC Touch Pro2 has Microsoft Office for Mobile built in, so you can open and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Sidekick lacks document viewing altogether. All three phones support Microsoft Outlook Exchange for syncing mail with a corporate e-mail server.

Hardware-wise, they're all quad band GSM and 3G capable devices, and so theoretically with a wink wink, nudge nudge, and some elbow grease in the case of the iPhone, they can work with any GSM carrier, AT&T and T-Mobile in the US, and carriers such as Vodafone in UK, China Mobile in China, and 3 in Australia. Which brings up the point of carrier choice. AT&T has a larger network and customer base than T-Mobile, meaning more people you can call for free using mobile-to-mobile minutes, but it's network quality and customer service are lackluster compared to T-Mobile's which has MUCH better voice quality, and customer service that's higher ranked (according to J.D. Power and Associates). Another thing to consider is that T-Mobile's 3G devices only work on their network, whereas AT&T's can work almost anywhere with 3G HSDPA. This is because back in 2006, T-Mobile bid and won the 1700Mhz part of the spectrum, and has exclusive use of it (the common 3G bands for HSDPA are 850/1900/2100, whereas the HTC Touch Pro2 only has 1700/2100 bands). Back to hardware, the Sidekick is the only one in your comparison that doesn't have Wi-Fi. T-Mobile has just begun rolling out its 3G network in about 17 metropolitan areas, so surfing the web will be relatively slower on the Sidekick. The Sidekick has the highest resolution at 854x480 (thus the sharpest) screen, followed by the HTC at 480x800, and finally the iPhone at 480x320. In terms of physical screen size, it's the HTC that wins with a screen size of 3.6 inches, followed by iPhone at 3.5 inches, and finally the Sidekick at 3.2. The Sidekick and the HTC have 3.2 MP cameras with autofocus and flash, while the iPhone only has a 2.0 MP camera, no flash, and no video recording (you can get a 3.0 MP camera with autofocus and video recording with onboard video editing to trim out parts of a video you don't want on the iPhone 3GS, which is basically faster and includes a few extra features). Out of the three phones that you've listed, I would have to rate the Sidekick as the fastest in overall use, because it doesn't have to do as much as the other two phones. The iPhone's application launch time is kinda slow, but is faster on the 3GS. By itself, Windows Mobile is terrible and ugly looking OS that requires a stylus to make it usable, but HTC put their HTC TouchFLO skin over it to make it more finger-friendly. This finger-friendliness comes at price though, making the already slow Windows Mobile OS even slower, and the slowest out of this comparison.

Keyboards. If you are an avid texter, and MUST have a keyboard, then skip the iPhone, because its on screen keyboard pales in comparison next to the Sidekick and Touch Pro2's keyboards, with HTC's keyboard even letting you tilt the screen for a better position.

Application Stores. The iPhone has by far the largest out of these three phones, with over a million apps. Microsoft is launching their own Marketplace for Mobile later, when the more finger-friendly Windows Mobile 6.5 comes out, but many major companies already have applications you can download and manually install on Windows Mobile devices, including Facebook, Bing, and Netflix. For the Sidekick, there's like one obscure official Download Catalog, with all the other applications just scattered about the internet.

When you choose your device, make sure you know what you really want, and the features that will meet those wants. As Kelley Blue Book would say on their YouTube reviews: And that's my comprehensive review of the HTC Touch Pro2, T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009, and iPhone 3g. Good luck :)
anonymous
2009-08-22 20:56:21 UTC
The HTC Touch Pro2 is definetally the greatest phone to date
anonymous
2009-08-21 23:56:42 UTC
HTC Touch Pro 2 is way better than the other two.
bear cub
2009-08-23 21:41:39 UTC
1.G2

2.sidekick

3.iphone


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