I hate my MDA; What new smartphone should I get?

I hate my MDA that I got a few months ago. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say my problems are mostly to with Windows mobile. I can’t sync with my address book and calendar properly, every part of using the system is frustrating and buggy, and I have to wipe the phone for one reason or another every couple months. And the hardware ain’t so hot either– the sound quality leaves much to be desired.

So I am potentially in the market for a new phone. Forget about the Apple iPhone for now… I can’t stand to use this thing until June.

Here are the features I must have:

  • Good sound quality
  • A qwerty or faux-qwerty keyboard
  • A good web browser
  • Excellent synchronization with OS X Address Book and iCal
  • Easy and relatively reliably internet OS X tethering over Bluetooth

Here are the features I would like to have:

  • 802.11x
  • Full use of the bluetooth spec
  • More than a paltry 64 or 128 megs of built-in storage
  • Supported and seamless internet tethering with OS X
  • GPS (i know, now i’m dreaming)

As far as I know, I think my only options are either a Symbian phone (maybe needing to get a non-us model), or the BlackBerry Pearl.

Anyone have any other ideas? Let’s pretend that price is no object.

2 Responses to “I hate my MDA; What new smartphone should I get?”


  1. 1 Natalie

    You definitely need to buy a phone from Europe if you want a decent phone before iPhone comes out. Their mobile phones are always at least 2-4 years ahead of the models sold here.

  2. 2 Sayan

    I am also having problems with my Windows Mobile… I hardly use it now except to do GPS route map stuff… even that is buggy.

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