When it comes to taking photos new smartphones are a blessing: calculate the sunrise and sunset times in a minute, get that DOF and make some notes of locations. Real help! But...
Some are better than others. I resisted overpaying for an iPhone and was happy enough with smaller HTC Wildfire: did the job and all apps that I needed worked fine. The camera sucked - but then at least it made you take the big guy out and not just take a shot with the crappy phone...
The tiny memory soon became an issue and, as a result, I changed to HTC One V. A few weeks later, when trying to plot the sun trajectory with Sun Surveyor (a great app!)I realised that the compass will not work. As it turns out -no magnetometer and that means the digital compass will not work. No idea what the idiots were thinking - but I guess HTC with their rather peculiar strategy will soon join Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola. I'm pretty sure that the next change will steer away from HTC - sorry but can't be bothered with finding out that yet another cost-cutting compromise made half of the apps useless... Would it be an iPhone? Still hope there will be a phone that works and does not cut corners (instead could cut that silly chin...)
An update:
the HTC One V has died all together.
In the meantime Apple decided to release their new iOS7 - which screwed up WiFi on the iPhone 4....
Since there is no more WiFi guess better stay away from iPhone and their slightly destructive updates!
back to phone that sends texts and makes calls maybe?
