New Phone Time Again

It has been 12 months since my last phone upgrade and so my mind once again starts to look at the various options out there that may appeal, Since getting the HTC Advantage 6 years ago (Probably why I did not think the iPad was particularly groundbreaking) I have only had one handset from a different manufacturer (The Samsung Omnia) however each upgrade I look at all of the handsets available so I am not tied to a particular brand.

I had been expecting the choice to be made between three handsets – The HTC Desire S, An update on the HTC Desire which I still think is a great handset. – The Samsung Galaxy S, currently the fastest selling Android device. – The Motorola Atrix, Which would be my first Motorola since the graphite around the start of the millennium. This all changed around January when I had a quick turn on a friends HTC 7 this windows 7 device was a bit of a game changer as I had considered Windows to be too far behind the other OS’s and have not had a windows phone since the Advantage. The question is could I be bothered to switch OS? Obviously if I switched to a Windows phone I would need to reload and repurchase all of my apps, also the interconnectivity between my google powered life and the phone would be lost possibly bring in all of the interconnectivity limitations of the iPhone. I think I have therefore decided that changing OS is just too much of a hassle and therefore I think I will need to stick to an Android device – In fact I guess if none of the OS’s come up with an easy way to transfer your programmes then there will likely be a situation where movements between Operating Systems become less and less common.

So the HTC 7 out I am left again with the first three, of the three The HTC Desire S is obviously a good well known model and simply being an update to my current HTC Desire a phone I know I will like, question is, Is it so close to the Desire that I will lose that “New Phone” buzz? If so I may as well just keep my Desire. So I started to look at the other two Android leaders, the Samsung Galaxy S is a fast phone with great features and has the clearer screen resolution but the Atrix comes with a dual core processor and an amazing array of accessories which can turn your phone into just about anything you require – but these come at a cost equal to that of the phone itself. The camera is 5MP in the Atrix and 8MP in the Galaxy with the Galaxy also being lighter and larger.

Looking at it I am starting to think that I will need to go for the Galaxy S II however I struggle to get away from the Atrix’s finger print reader for unlocking that ensures that only you can open the phone – and despite the fact that this is not a real necessity and because as a human being I am entitled to go against even my own logic I decided I would be getting the Motorola Atrix.

Decision made it was perhaps foolish of me to look at the “Coming Soon” section of the website where I found the HTC Sensation, combining the Dual Core of the Atrix to the 8MP camera of the Galaxy with a host of new features such as HTC’s new Video on demand service and a four app locked screen to give quicker access to you favourite apps (A must for anyone who has ever whipped out a camera only to miss the moment as you mess about trying to open the application.) So it may not have a finger print scanner but it does contain enough exciting new features for me to delay getting the new phone until I get to check it out.