Which mobile to buy- N8 or E7 or HTC Desire HD

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I am confused in N8,E7,htc desire HD to buy. I want HD phone that should be good for internet browsing and have large screen and have office docs viewer and pdf reader too. Which is well suited to my requirement

E7 would suit your requirement well among those three. Desire HD is a pathetic phone. if you want a droid, get desire s or se xperia arc or wait for samsung galaxy II. n8 is more of camera and music phone than a business class device. Other devices you can check are HTC HD7(poor battery life but overall a good phone) and mozart.

Since you want for office news. Get a E7. Its good buisness phone.

HTC Desire HD-
Its very Good Camera phone (Android 2.2 Gingerbread ready) with good performance all the way but it has low battery life and tiny loud speaker.Resolution is good too (4.3/480x800). Documents viewer & PDF reader available.

Nokia N8-
The N8 is very solid phone with great battery life & very Nice keypad. Also include very Good signal quality. if you are looking for well-rounded device with good internet browsing,N8 will satisfy you. Good with Documents viewer & PDF reader.

Nokia E7-
Nokia E7 is very Awesome business Smartphone with too friendly too best internet browsing. QWERTY too and very best. If you want to fulfill your all requirements Go with Nokia E7

Thank You!

Dump all three and go for HTC Incredible S

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Well I have the E7 and I have used the N8 before that. E7 suits your requirements perfectly. More over, you can edit documents and view pdfs out of the box with both. E7 has a bigger screen. And the QWERTY slide out is top notch with regards to build quality.

These are some of the sample pictures captured from my Nokia E7
*i.imgur.com/0Bm7K.jpg
*i.imgur.com/0Bm7K.jpg

These are raw files, meaning not touched or cropped or anything.

Also a sample video captured from the phone. YouTube - 07042011

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E7 is good phone but the problem is Symbian... it is dying OS.. and after 1 year down the line there will be no updates for the same. also processor is 600 Mhz and at this price point it is underpowered.

sam9s said:
How on this mother earth is it a pathetic phone.............. back up your claim and then comment, .... and yes don't say battery back up coz thats a lame accusation ..... its not as good as others but definitely in the lines of all high end 4"+ screen phone. the only thing I can think off as a disadvantage for this phone is its tiny speaker (rightly and sensibly pointed out by TSPatange) which in all senses is really bad, apart from that the phone rocks in all departments, butter smooth, awesome Sense UI, amazing 720p recording. Loads n Loads of features and yes Android 2.2 pretty soon upgradable to Gingerbread.

"Pathetic Phone ... " gotta be kidding me ...

Yes, Desire HD is a Pathetic Phone because it has pathetic 1200 mHa battery. Coupled with that huge screen, the phone doesn't last half a day. And that makes it unusable for any stretch of time.

If HTC is smart enough to make a good phone, they should also be smart enough to provide enough juice to run the device...

@OP, I suggest you look at HTC Desire S and Incredible S. These are great phones, and beat Nokias hands down...

sam9s said:
^^ Yes I knew one would be coming back with the same lame reason of battery, I am using HD and it lasts easily a day with moderate use ....... and if you search all 4"+ smartphones do not last more than a day on moderate use, does not make a phone pathetic .....

1. poor audio quality
2. CFL backlit LCD on a high end smartphonein the year 2011?
3. 1200mAh battery for a phone whose display consumes power as if it just ended hunger strike?
4. just average camera quality
5. boring looks taken from phones released about a year ago.

compare it to phones like sgs, D:S, se arc, n8, e7 and its a super dud and pathetic.

you shouldve consulted us before buying this piece of overpriced crap. and btw, my phones battery lasts a month on standby.

Definitely E7 for you based on your requirements. Dont look else where.

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sam9s said:
^^ Yes I knew one would be coming back with the same lame reason of battery, I am using HD and it lasts easily a day with moderate use ....... and if you search all 4"+ smartphones do not last more than a day on moderate use, does not make a phone pathetic .....

Should I wait for Samsung S II and HTC sensation.

Yes if u can but they are going to cost around 30K

sam9s said:
1. poor audio quality ................... In your dreams ..lol ... provide me one article that states HD has poor sound quality

gsmarena: We aren't particularly impressed with the HTC Desire HD audio output. When you plug it in an active external amplifier (such as your home or car stereo) it does pretty decently, save for the below average intermodulation distortion. It may not be perfect but it certainly is good enough on those occasions.
Yet plugging in a pair of headphones, the stereo crosstalk skyrockets and it's almost as bad as if you had a mono device - much like with Optimus 7. The intermodulation distortion increases even further and the handset is not particularly loud too. All in all a mediocre performance and we really expect much better for that kind of cash.

engadget:HTC has added Dolby and SRS sound options for video playback, and while they generate tangibly different ouputs -- SRS makes the actors sound like they're breathing into their webcam mic and Dolby adds an extra layer of bass to proceedings, whether necessary or not -- our conclusion was that they were just poor in different ways. As ever, using the speaker on your phone for anything more than call and messaging alerts seems an ill-advised idea here.

I have tried HTC HD7 too and it suffers from same problem. While the un-enhanced audio quality is too weak, enabling Dolby or SRS kills the audio quality and gives too much of bass. If you still think that D:HD audio quality is top notch, please do try phones like SGS and Xperia series and ipod touch and cowons etc and you will understand what I meant by "good audio quality".

sam9s said:
2. CFL backlit LCD on a high end smartphonein the year 2011? .............................BIG Deal compare it to any S LCD and its at par

NO. it is NOT at par. again, it is no match to newer OLED displays. Even a S:LCD is much better and the newer OLED and IPS panels literally destroys this old fashioned LCD display.

sam9s said:
3. 1200mAh battery for a phone whose display consumes power as if it just ended hunger strike? ..................................Yea same lame statement

WHAT? lame statement?

sam9s said:
4. just average camera quality ..................................lolzzzzzz HAHA lolzzz ... again provide me one article that states HD has an avg camera ....

again, check how good the camera is on phones like SE Arc, N8 and we will talk again. Any damn phone (even a micromax) can take great picture in perfect light conditions.

engadget: Firstly, let's get the boilerplate warning out of the way that low light will not be a friend to your photographing experience with this phone. Harsh noise and chromatic aberration will invade your pictures if you turn down the lights too low, while focusing also takes a predictable hit and you often end up with some slight image blur as a result.

gsmarena:Our Desire HD unit (an off-the-shelf phone) did have an obvious lens issue, which smudges the left side of the photos. This issue aside, the amount of captured detail is decent and the noise reduction algorithms are well-tuned but there are some visible artifacts resulting from the aggressive sharpening stage (oversharpened noise).
Even without the lens issues, the Desire HD camera wouldn’t rank among the top 8MP Android shooters (or 8MP cameras in general).

Phonearena: As far as standalone performance of the camera, it's unfortunately a mixed bag. Focusing is a bit of an issue, with shots out of focus roughly 10% of the time. Colour reproduction is on the whole okay, however inconsistent. While some shots, such as that of the post box produce a decent level of saturation, others look dull, and others washed out. Detail isn't too bad at all in well lit environments, however, any night shots don't even need to be zoomed into to notice the crackle. Exposure is also very inconsistent. The camera interface allows for touch to focus, which also controls what we presume to be spot metering, and there is an exposure bar which can be adjusted, however, in automatic, we found that the HTC Desire HD got it wrong more often than we would have hoped.

trustedreviews: Results from the camera are par for the course in so much as they can offer up a fair amount of detail and accurate colours in well (and evenly) lit situations but shots in dark environments are very noisy and overall sharpness is nothing compared to even a basic compact camera. The twin LED flash certainly helps in close quarters but we'd still like to see more phones use proper Xenon flashes.

sam9s said:
5. boring looks taken from phones released about a year ago................................ yea boring looks for you alright........

Desire, D:HD, D:S, Evo, Wildfire, Wildfire:S, HD7 etc etc. all these are based on a similar shell. do have a look at Arc, E7, SGSII, LG Optimus 2X and you will understand why I said 'boring'.

sam9s said:
cheezzz consulted you .... lolz who are you ..???

But looking at the comparision you gave "D:S, se arc, n8, e7" .... lolzzz I can see where you are coming from.......

Looking at your comments in this post, it seems that you are one of those who would go to any length to defend their purchase.

sam9s said:
Yea a cheap macromax or some ZEN mobile can give a month battery life .......does not state a thing ....

dude. who is talking about zen or whatever. It is a well known FACT that these HTCs suck real bad at battery life. Atleast they learnt from their mistake and are releasing their newer devices with better and bigger batteries.

PS: if you don't know yet, HTC phones excel at UI, stability, pre-installed apps, build quality but every single phone suck at multimedia performance (camea, audio, video). Period!

I used E7 for week really gr8 working with 3G , iam using Nokia C7 same like but big screen for Internet & much user friendly !

If u r not an android fan just get Nokia E7

Final decision from my side = E7

If you want a cutting edge phone that you can be adventurous with=
LG Optimus 2x

Symbian is dead. Go for an android handset. At present, the best single core phone in the market is the SE Arc followed by the Incredible S. If you can wait a month or so, the Xperia pro with a physical qwerty, 8 mp exmor r, bravia display and a 1500mah battery would be available. Btw Desire HD is a piece of *undisclosed material*.
And if you do want to get a dual core phone but arent scared to rummage through the kernals and load custom roms, the optimus 2x should suffice. Mind you, in its stock state its a piece worse than the desire HD.

Desire HD is the best phone among the list which you've mentioned

@desiibond : nice !!!!!!

@sam : HTC do have a pathetic battery life....and its not a lame statement.

@OP : before buying any symbian phone do consider HTC, Samsung and SE android phones...running on gingerbread and also have a good supply of apps and games.

Looks like I'm a little late to this thread

As always the usual LCD vs S-LCD fight eih?? So How good/bad is the LCD unit on DHD??
YouTube - ‪HTC Desire Vs Desire HD - Screen Test Comparison‬&rlm;

HTC Desire HD LCD vs HTC Incredible S S-LCD Screens Magnified

Regarding the battery life, it depends on the ROM you are using, it might end up pretty bad(3-4hrs) to average(10-12hrs) with normal usage. On certain Gingerbread ROM's standby time is really good, ofcourse with minimal usage

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Having said that battery life has been the Achilles heel in most of the droids these days, Samsung is a notch better in this aspect with good battery life on the Galaxy & Galaxy SL, and I don't understand why would anyone go with a smaller battery on a 4" plus screen based mobile as HTC did with DHD.

DHD is a powerful phone agreed, but it's got too many chinks in its armor. If I were to spend my 25K, I'll look else where.

sam9s said:
Its IS lame coz that has been shouted upon again and again, and people like you and desibong take this already stated drawback add it with stupid fictitious loop holes and use it to portray their own opinion to a phone that has been critically acclaimed to be the best smart phone along with SGS every where ....... so there is nothing nice about it unless you prove and provide articles to support .......

which is what I will do now to cut the long story short .....

Let me google that for you

Pick any 5 articles from the result including the youtube and you will have HTC Desire or HD somewhere in the list ....... PERIOD!

Dear Sir. We are halfway into 2011 and you still stuck in 2010. When D:HD was released, there hardly was a phone in India that could compete with it in India (except SGS and the Desire). There are lot more phones now. I can even do this: Let me google that for you and go Gaaaaaa Gaaaaaaa Gaaaaa that SE P990i is the best smartphone on earth. And here is the megaLOL. none of the links in the first page of your 2010 search listed D:HD. That's right. NONE!

Coming back to battery life, I, fortunately had first hand experience of battery life of many smartphones and HTCs monster phones are clearly among the worst, be it Desire (yes, unless you install custom ROM, this one also has poor battery life) or HD2 or HD7. Unlike you, am not acting like a HTC fanboy. And if you think that we saying poor battery life on D:HD is fictitious, what about this: htc desire HD poor battery life - Google Search

When you asked for articles that provide same info on D:HD issues, I gave enough articles, so how come these are fictitious? Is it just because you are not ready to accept the truth?

Also, forgot to mention the lack of HDMI port which is very useful as many are having highdef TVs and monitors these days.

So, please. if you like D:HD, keep it. Don't try to rub your own extremely biased opinion on everyone. And do read other posts and you will understand that there are many here who share similar opinion.

Mark my words boy! mark my words. Even a SGS:L that cost whole 5k less is much much much better phone overall than D:HD. Period!

For your understanding, here are list of high endphones that are great smartphones in the year "2011":

1. Nokia N8 (camera)
2. SE Xperia Arc (camera, multimedia, sexy build)
3. SE Xperia Play (gaming)
4. Samsung Galaxy S (Display, ROMs, multimedia)
5. Nokia E7 (business class)
6. Desire S (UI, ROMs)
7. Incredible S (UI, ROMs)
8. Samsung Galaxy S II (The One)
9. LG Optimus 2X (powerful but needs custom ROM as stock ROM is pathetic)
10. iPhone 4
11. Nexus S

PS: We are trying to ask many to hold on to their money as the newer phones like SE Arc, D:S will become stale in few weeks time (once the dual core based smartphone have started coming into the market) and here you are......

sriharsha_madineni said:
Looks like I'm a little late to this thread

As always the usual LCD vs S-LCD fight eih?? So How good/bad is the LCD unit on DHD??
YouTube - ‪HTC Desire Vs Desire HD - Screen Test Comparison‬&rlm;

Regarding the battery life, it depends on the ROM you are using, it might end up pretty bad(3-4hrs) to average(10-12hrs) with normal usage. On certain Gingerbread ROM's standby time is really good, ofcourse with minimal usage

Thanks for the video da. Hope our D:HD fan is able to find the paleness that D:HD display shows when put next to Desire AMOLED.

sriharsha_madineni said:
Having said that battery life has been the Achilles heel in most of the droids these days, Samsung is a notch better in this aspect with good battery life on the Galaxy & Galaxy SL, and I don't understand why would anyone go with a smaller battery on a 4" plus screen based mobile as HTC did with DHD.

DHD is a powerful phone agreed, but it's got too many chinks in its armor. If I were to spend my 25K, I'll look else where.

yes. loading custom ROM solves battery life to an extent but that 1230mAh battery is too low even for custom ROMs and as a result one should keep internet and movie playback to a reasonable to minimal level. So, what's the use in buying such a phone. Not to forget the bugs that these custom ROMs usually have.

sam9s said:
desire and HD beats all phones hands down in all other departments ...... except maybe SGS......So I am not acting like as HTC fanboy.

ROFLMAO!!!

seriously dude, stop this fanboyism. Desire has already become stale and D:HD was DOA.

damngoodman999 said:
I used E7 for week really gr8 working with 3G , iam using Nokia C7 same like but big screen for Internet & much user friendly !

If u r not an android fan just get Nokia E7

What? Singling me out? Should I change my name to NokiaFan... :))

sam9s said:
I am not stuck in 2010 ..lol the phone is coz the phone was launched in 2010...?? so why would I compare it with 2011 phones ..... cheezz man....

And in 2010 there was no phone to compare....lolzzzz, thats the most irrelevant statement on board ...... and in 2011 suddenly so many phones came in to existence to compare ...eh ..!! poof!!! ....

And I am not comping between Desire and Desire HD .... I am comparing between Desire (including HD) and the rest of the lot, and hence the G-search, which has desire in all top models........ I also have a Deisre with me and an HD and the only difference;;;; is what HD has as its drawback, which is ......less bright screen, poor speaker phone and pretty much thats it. In all other aspects Desire and HD are same, where HD scores in better sense UI more memory etc etc. For me it makes no difference if you take Desire or HD both phones excels and are/were the best smartphones of 2010........

just a while ago, you were going gaga that D:HD display is great etc etc. what changed your judgement in few hours? It is not me that have to read reviews in depth. It is you that need to open your eyes and throw that 2010 calendar out of the window.

huh.

anyways, enough wasting time trying to make one understand the timeline.

@OP, here's the list for you if you want to explore more devices:

1. Nokia N8 (camera)
2. SE Xperia Arc (camera, multimedia, sexy build)
3. SE Xperia Play (gaming)
4. Samsung Galaxy S (Display, ROMs, multimedia)
5. Nokia E7 (business class)
6. Desire S (UI, ROMs)
7. Incredible S (UI, ROMs)
8. Samsung Galaxy S II (The One)
9. LG Optimus 2X (powerful but needs custom ROM as stock ROM is pathetic)
10. iPhone 4
11. Nexus S

I think Nokia E7 is the best for OP. A qwerty keypad is good for office docs.

Also when mentioning processor speeds please also mention the OS it is running on. Symbian doesnt need as much processing power as the other OSes do so a direct comparison is quite naive.
My N85 with 333Mhz proc worked well until dec '10. I used a C7 with twice that 600mhz and it ran smooth. My 1Ghz arc lags when i open message inbox.

Symbian is dead? Doesnt matter as long as there are no flaws in the OS. Matters if you work for Symbian corp though. You just lost your job!
I think the next symbian device would definitely be the death of it though.

Also many of the apps are still available for symbian. Heck im still searching for similar ones on the android.

I personally own an xperia arc. Its a great phone with its own set of flaws and glictches. You might want to check my review if you are even remotely looking at the arc.
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/140770-se-xperia-arc.html

Forgive me im a Nokia-Sony-Android-iOS fanboy. I hope I sounded like one.

desiibond said:
Thanks for the video da. Hope our D:HD fan is able to find the paleness that D:HD display shows when put next to Desire AMOLED.

yes. loading custom ROM solves battery life to an extent but that 1230mAh battery is too low even for custom ROMs and as a result one should keep internet and movie playback to a reasonable to minimal level. So, what's the use in buying such a phone. Not to forget the bugs that these custom ROMs usually have.

Welcome anytime Anna

And that is not even AMOLED, that is a S-LCD Desire. Even I was surprised for the first time when I compared my Desire with a friend's DHD, preloaded wallpapers looked washed out on his DHD, where as the same were looking normal on Desire.

From what I observed that 1230mAh gives almost same battery back-up as a stock Desire mainly due to the new chipset's battery efficiency improvements. But 1230 is way too low for a device such as DHD IMHO.

Custom ROM's have always been the USP of HTC family and I hope it stays so, can't understand why HTC is slowly staring to lock Bootloaders.

sam9s said:
I am not stuck in 2010 ..lol the phone is coz the phone was launched in 2010...?? so why would I compare it with 2011 phones ..... cheezz man....

And in 2010 there was no phone to compare....lolzzzz, thats the most irrelevant statement on board ...... and in 2011 suddenly so many phones came in to existence to compare ...eh ..!! poof!!! ....

And I am not comparing between Desire and Desire HD .... I am comparing between Desire (including HD) and the rest of the lot, and hence the G-search, which has desire in all top models........ I also have a Deisre with me and an HD and the only difference;;;; is what HD has as its drawback, which is ......less bright screen, poor speaker phone and pretty much thats it. In all other aspects Desire and HD are same, where HD scores in better sense UI more memory etc etc. For me it makes no difference if you take Desire or HD both phones excels and are/were the best smartphones of 2010........

and the other draw backs .... camera quality not THE best ...boring looks ,,...lol are so frivolous comparisons that I had a good laugh .... is that the only gun you have as comparison ..... if you are so much in to smartphones go to any review site and read in depth. desire and HD beats all phones hands down in all other departments ...... except maybe SGS......So I am not acting like as HTC fanboy. seems like you are acting as HTC Hateboy ....... let your grudge leak some where else and not the phone you dont/cant own and let the review experts decide which is the best........PERIOD AGAIN!!!

You are right, Desire family was one of the best smartphones then, not now. Same way my Nokia 6600 was the king of smartphones once, not now

No one is saying DHD is crap, it is one hell of a power packed phone, but it does have a fair share of drawbacks, due to which DHD was short lived and was replaced by better devices.

K buddy let me make it simple for you. :))

First let us see the best symbian phone among C7,E7 and N8
*bigphonefight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/nokia-e7-vs-c7-vs-n8.jpg
Nokia E7 vs. Nokia C7 vs. Nokia N8 – The Revenge!
So N8 won the battle here!

Now let us compare N8 with Desire HD
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HTC Desire HD vs. Nokia N8 â€“ Review
Here also N8 wins!

Now let us compare SE Arc which is the best according to me

with N8
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc vs. Nokia N8
SE Arc wins here! :lol:

But if you can wait and have more money ( Around Rs.35k) buy Samsung Galaxy II because this is going to be the best phone in 2011
*mos.futurenet.com/techradar/classifications/Mobile%20Phones/Samsung/100946_GT-I9100_ADImage_Large-420-100.jpg
20 best mobile phones in the world today | News | TechRadar UK

sam9s said:
Statement seems fair enough, and that is the way technology is ....a better one is always available just around the corner .......
and that is why we have another two hotties coming ...... SGS II and HTC Sensation ....

I am sure the HTC Hateboy would come up with another lame excuse to try to dethrone the masters off smartphones .....

thank god. whatever you call me, atleast you agreed that D:HD is not a worthy buy.

sriharsha_madineni said:
Welcome anytime Anna

And that is not even AMOLED, that is a S-LCD Desire. Even I was surprised for the first time when I compared my Desire with a friend's DHD, preloaded wallpapers looked washed out on his DHD, where as the same were looking normal on Desire.

in the review description, it is mentioned that Desire's is AMOLED.

sriharsha_madineni said:
From what I observed that 1230mAh gives almost same battery back-up as a stock Desire mainly due to the new chipset's battery efficiency improvements. But 1230 is way too low for a device such as DHD IMHO.

yes. even with normal use, it's hard to keep the device on the next morning (on a single charge). When internet is used extensively, the power drain is extremely high.

sriharsha_madineni said:
Stock ROM's have always been the USP of HTC family and I hope it stays so, can't understand why HTC is slowly staring to lock Bootloaders.

not to worry. it will be cracked.

sriharsha_madineni said:
You are right, Desire family was one of the best smartphones then, not now. Same way my Nokia 6600 was the king of smartphones once, not now

No one is saying DHD is crap, it is one hell of a power packed phone, but it does have a fair share of drawbacks, due to which DHD was short lived and was replaced by better devices.

Agree. This is the reason why many still buy Desire or D:S instead of D:HD even though Desire is more than a year and half old.

The negative feedback that HTC received (coupled with poor sales for some devices like D:HD) for devices like D:HD, Evo, Thunderbolt definitely made them think twice this time. The Evo's battery issue was as popular as iPhone 4's death grip. Their poor judgement earlier resulted in loss of huge amount of market sales to Samsung Galaxy series (especially in USA). Imagine what would've happened if D:HD released with better LCD panel (IPS or S-LCD) or with AMOLED, with audio chip equivalent to what Nokia/SE uses for their high end devices, with a 1600mAh Li-Pro battery etc.

PS: Am yet to see a device from HTC that can bring in innovation that HTC Legend and HTC Desire brought early last year.

sam9s said:
Statement seems fair enough, and that is the way technology is ....a better one is always available just around the corner .......
and that is why we have another two hotties coming ...... SGS II and HTC Sensation ....

I am sure the HTC Hateboy would come up with another lame excuse to try to dethrone the masters off smartphones .....

yes, but IMO Galaxy S2 is better overall, I hope HTC comes up with a better droid, but Samsung is on top since Galaxy S, that said, ROM's are still buggy from Samsung, hope the situation won't be the same with S2.

And desiibond is no HTC Hateboy, he too had a Legend once

desiibond said:
in the review description, it is mentioned that Desire's is AMOLED.

Ah, yes you were right, I was confused by the second link mixup

sam9s said:
Its IS lame coz that has been shouted upon again and again, and people like you and desibong take this already stated drawback add it with stupid fictitious loop holes and use it to portray their own opinion to a phone that has been critically acclaimed to be the best smart phone along with SGS every where ....... so there is nothing nice about it unless you prove and provide articles to support .......

No more arguments...the battery was pathetic....

abhidev said:
No more argument...the battery was pathetic....

i think his phone is powered by some mysterious element while all other D:HDs are powered by normal battery.

Have a look on Dell Venue & Motorola Milestone...

Although quite old, Milestone still suits all of your requirements. It sports a brilliant hi-resolution 3.7" display. It has even got a slider QWERTY keypad. Inspite of the qwerty keypad, its just 13.7 mm thick.

You can always get a decent doc viewer through Android Market.

E7 & N8 will lack of quality apps.

R

i've seen n8 hang after a few weeks even on opening messaging!!
i've also seen 2 happy owners of htc incredible s

rajat100493 said:
i've seen n8 hang after a few weeks even on opening messaging!!
i've also seen 2 happy owners of htc incredible s

yes. Incredible S is a very good device. And there are few N8s that face this slowness/hang/reboot issue (from specific lot). A trip to service centre should fix the issue.

R

you should wait for the galaxy sII and sensation if you can. don't go for sony. THe UI Looke clean and polished but it lags a lot. the xperia x10 were given 2.2 updates atleast an year or so after the htc updates were brought in. so if u want ot exploit yourhardware to the max i'd prefer android and that too samsung galaxy II because these peaople at htc are getting smarter as flashing the newer HTC phones is not easy. check dis out:
public:root_friendly [RootWiki]
also check for dezire z if it suit but be sure to read the engadget review for the same!!

@Sams: N8 has got better camera which is 12MP whereas Desire HD has 8MP

and N8 is cheaper than Desire HD :wink:

For a moment I thought i'm in some battleground

Common guys stop fighting or I should say continue cos in between u guys putting some brilliant comparisons and infos so go ahead keep fighting..

@OP

Go for E7 buddy i myself using it and love every bit of it.
I only miss one feature in this phone that is FM Transmitter other than that its a class phone and S^3 OS still have a lot to offer though Android has taken over but it still does everything what Android can.

desiibond said:
i think his phone is powered by some mysterious element while all other D:HDs are powered by normal battery.

... well m certainly unaware of that...well but a poor battery life is certainly not acceptable and sadly most of the android phones today hardly last a day... :-x

Yup. That phone is notorously known for having a bad battery life.

Nokia never dissapoints much on battery.