Smartphones a-go-go

[Furunculus]

i have an n900 and i love it, but it is not cutting edge any more.

this is the era of the dual core smartphone with powerful OpenGL ES2.0 gpu's, which is what the apps and games will target as a baseline in the near future.

whatever you do do not get an old android smartphone with an Arm11 core sporting an OpenGL ES 1.1 gpu.

my ideal smartphone:
3.7" to 4.3" screen
840x480 to 960x640 res
Samsung hummingbird (!GHz Arm A8 + SGX540) to Tegra 2 (dual Arm A9 + nvidia)
Android 2.3 / Meego / Ios
512MB mem to 1GB mem

don't go below those lower end (feature-phone with a touch-screen), but feel free to try and exceed upper end (depending on how long you are willing to wait).

[Vladimir]

Real Men Use Android

[Husar]

Real Men Use Android

Duh, that's because they can pay 20 elite programmers to make custom apps for them and change the whole OS around to suit them.
Normal men don't have the money for that anyway.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I find android to be strait forward - not like running a linux OS. You can, I think, get real deep into how it works with various apps but it runs easily right out of the box.

CR