Topic: Feature/Dumbphone or Smartphone

I had a dumbphone trying to be smart and it was god awful, it kept calling people in my pocket and deleting contacts and stuff. So I got an HTC Desire S and it's absolutely brilliant!

I currently have a smart phone, an iPhone 3GS.
However I am thinking of getting the next flagship HTC smartphone in a couple of years as I can then freely sync with Ubuntu.

What are you saying??

Smartphone = Kindle that fits in your pocket = Mega Win!!! I can read my James Rollins novels on-the-go and that makes me very happy.

Dumbphone. It's made by Apple. _{ohoho buuurn}

But seriously, dumbphone. Some £25 thing that looks a bit like a Blackberry, if Blackberries were manufactured by a knock-off company in Turkey, and with none of the features. Halfway surprised its not called a Blueberry or something. BUT IT RINGS PEOPLE SO WHO CARES.

I have a dumbphone, a Sony Ericsson Elm (J10i2) It does everything I need, text and calls. I never have any need for any other features, although if I wouldn't mind a way to check train/bus timetables without having to pay.

Do people use smartphones to do dumb things? (Look up "geico smartphone" on YouTube if you don't know what I'm talking about.)

I currently have a Motorola Droid, which I like in some ways and don't like in others. I like the Kindle app and some of the games, but I'm just not sure that access to free and cheap apps is worth Verizon's expensive data plans. It's nice sometimes to be able to look stuff up online wherever I am, but again I'm not sure it's worth the cost.

I have ATT as my service. People whine about ATT but me and my family has never had any issues- even my brother with the iPhone4. I'll stick with my unlimited messaging and data plan for my dumbphone versus 2GB a month data plan Att has as well as Verizon. I just need a phone with better calling quality which this phone is decent at that, but it sucks barely understanding the other person on the other line.

Me gotz a dumbphone. It doesn't even text properly (the buttons stick) but it's enough.

I have no phone.

@Moco_Loco: Yeah Dawg!

Edit: ^That's actually what I thought of when I first read this thread's title.

Yay, I got a new phone today. It can access the internet and text!!!!

Last December, I finally moved from an extensive history of "dumbphone" usage to my first foray into smartphones. WP7 on my Samsung Focus to be exact. I'm glad I took the plunge and will never look back.

Flagship being HTC's major phone for that year and Ubuntu being one of the best Linux distributions ever

Can't wait to get my 1st Smartphone this October. Gonna be the HTC Incredible 2 or HTC Bliss or something else HTC. I just love their User-Interface. Upgrading from LG EnV-touch.

I have a landline phone. Can't get any dumber than that.

Dumb all the way. I need it to text and talk ,that's it. The way I treat my mobiles there is no way I'd wanna carry around a i _{'m a sheep} phone with me, it wouldn't last 5minutes. Plus my battery lasts forever ,seriously it's like it's nuclear powered or summat!!

SMAAAAAARRRRRTTTTTT PHOOOOOONNNNEEE! HTC Evo 4G.

What they show on TV now is this:

Say that you are in a town you have never been to and are lost. Well, all you have to do is hold up your smartphone and aim the camera at a a street corner or a street of businesses. Your Smartphone will tell you the name of the street and the businesses on said street.

G-A-R-B-A-G-E

If you want to know the street, LOOK AT THE SIGN! And if you want to know the names of the businesses, go inside and ask, or better yet, just look at the door! Can you not tell if it's a shop or a diner just by looking through the windows?!?!?!? SHEESH!

Wow..........sorry for blowin' up there.....

Yeah. Smartphone advertising is the first time ever in the history of marketing that has exaggerated reality.