What Phone best suits the Affiliate Marketer?

nickycakes said:
Not as far as I know. My parents had something similar in their car until like last year as an emergency phone on an ancient verizon plan (was bell atlantic when they signed up) and then last year verizon finally told them they couldnt support their phone anymore and sent them a new flip phone for free.
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lolz.

@defelice: kinda pointless since htc desire (htc hero's successor, if you will) will soon be out (in Europe atleast, not sure about US). Basically, it's nexus one + some neat interface thingy from HTC whose name I can't recall right now that is missing from google's phone.

It can currently be preordered unlocked from amazon.de for about 500 Euros.
 


Etherswift said:
lolz.

@defelice: kinda pointless since htc desire (htc hero's successor, if you will) will soon be out (in Europe atleast, not sure about US). Basically, it's nexus one + some neat interface thingy from HTC whose name I can't recall right now that is missing from google's phone.

It can currently be preordered unlocked from amazon.de for about 500 Euros.
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forgot to mention im on a $150 budget..
 
digga121 said:
iphone ftw!
Cool lookin phone for sure, iphone has a mulitask app actually that you can do all that, plus if u unlock it, $66 a month
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See, it's not really about the looks for me. The N900 actually does not look as cool as the iPhone from the side or the back. Front - yea, maybe.

You need to ask yourself what you need to use this phone for. Is this just about having a "cool" phone? Do you care more about music, videos and such? Games? Do you like to hack things? Or do you need something for your business?

If business, again, what does that mean to you - just communication (email, voice, text), managing/editing documents, doing extensive work on the web, or something else? The answers to that will be much more helpful than peole just saying "Oh, phone x FTW!"

I can tell you, I'm squarely in the latter group (extensive online work) and I find the N900 best suited for that because:

  • More than twice the display resolution of the iPhone (800x480 vs 480×320) means I can display more data at the same time. Sure, the display is about the same size, so this means text will be smaller, but it's amazingly crisp and you can read even small text fine if you're not half-blind.
  • Multitasking allows me e.g. to keep IM sessions running while I pull stats from the web. Doing this all the time. I can even do this on the same screen. Also have the Brightkite background app, which tells people on my white list where I am without me doing a thing. On the iPhone, you need to launch the app and manually "check in" everytime you go a new place. Lame. AFAIK you can add multitasking only on jailbroken iPhones, in which case you always got to worry about the the next Apple update bricking your phone. Been there, done that.
  • Flash. You'd be surprised how many sites use Flash. Or maybe you're not surprised because you see the gaping holes on other phones. There are some Flash-based stats and reporting sites I use without even thinking about it.
  • VoIP. Save your phone minutes, use a VoIP app over your 3G data or wifi connection. Where's Skype for 3G on the iPhone? And didn't Apple just kick Google Voice out of the app store? Works just fine on my Nokia and lets me use multiple virtual numbers on my phone for different people to call.
  • Service cost. Follows from above. You think $66 is cheap? I run on T-Mobile's Even More+ plan with 500 minutes, unlimited nights, wkends and T-Mo to T-Mo and NO CONTRACT for $30/month + $10 for unlimited 3G data. I don't use text, it all goes over data IM. And other than my iPhone friends, who always complain about how badly At&T sucks, I'm very happy with T-Mo's service. $40 total - totally official, no "unlocking" necessary.
  • In fact, it's unlocked by default. Go to to another country, pop in a cheap local pre-paid SIM, ready to go. I travel a lot, so this is gold for me.
  • Doesn't hurt though that it's super easy to play/hack around with the innards of the phone, but that's more the geek side of me.

That means business to me.
 
You really should get an iPhone, else wise in comparison everything else is just one of the old Bag phones.

There is nothing like it, hands down. Oh and the droid isn't even in the same ball park as the iPhone, although the Nexus is in the nose bleed section watching as the iPhone is on the field calling the shots.

Oh and you can get an iPhone 3G for $99 (with contract)

Im not bias or anything you know... :)
 
Etherswift said:
oh, gotta love the brainwashed apple fanboys.. get your heads out of your asses, seriously..
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hate it or love it, apple sets standards, others follow and try to copy...

yes apple is a little crazy over certain things, but they prove over and over again that it works and it's probably most efficient...

with that said...i hate how apple locks everything down on iphones...but at the same time, it doesn't bother me enough to want to switch phones...
 
SeaTownJosh said:
The Iphone is the gold standard. That is the shit!!!
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loopline said:
You really should get an iPhone, else wise in comparison everything else is just one of the old Bag phones.
There is nothing like it, hands down.
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The OP asked for suggestions for "the Affiliate Marketer". I think that means he wants to use it for his work. You two fan boys, have a look at my post 18 and especially at the follow-up post 44. Please compare and explain to us exactly how the iPhone would be a better choice for the affiliate marketing business.
 
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Own this one. Quite happy due to the fact that I can write whole ebooks easily on this phone...
 
Very happy with my Samsung Omnia HD (i8910).

s60 doesn't have the future Android promises but does have shit loads of support and apps and overall is better than most alternatives.

It can do shit the iphone can't without a lot of fucking about (which kinda kills the 'it just works' thing of the iphone)... multitasking, use memory cards, changing the fucking battery.

There's a great developer/hacking community for this phone producing amazing ROMs. Flash is no problem, putty works well. Great GPS, great cam (HD vids are nice, but unfortunately no xenon flash for pics).

I'm sure I'll get an android phone in the next year or 2 but for now can't recommend this samsung highly enough.
 
envision said:
The OP asked for suggestions for "the Affiliate Marketer". I think that means he wants to use it for his work. You two fan boys, have a look at my post 18 and especially at the follow-up post 44. Please compare and explain to us exactly how the iPhone would be a better choice for the affiliate marketing business.
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First off if were talking about just having a cool phone then im going with the iphone. If were going for work then a blackberry or nexus.

Iphone gets women. Whip it out and your getting some!
 
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