Time to upgrade cellphones?

Time to upgrade cellphones?!
Which one to buy?!
What brand?!


Don't WORRY...


Many people always ask them self's the above questions. So we went out and tested them all.
Here is the report on what phone you should buy:

The Blackberry
A Smartphone, without the "smart". It's good looking, but under all that eyeCandy, is a small beetle motor engine. The only plus side of this phone is, BBM (blackberry Messenger) for chatting. The Blackberry has no "office" suites also No Offline GPS Maps,  No Contacts Sync,  No Calendar Sync, No Notes/Memo Sync. No Task/ToDo Sync, We almost forgot to mention the amazing random-reboot-that-somehow-takes-five-minutes feature! it has the least number of Applications. 

Here are the statistics:

• BB App World: only 2,000!!!
• Symbian: +250,000
• Android Market: 20,000
• Apple App Store: +100,000

Android 

It’s all designed around the idea of real time – twitter suddenly makes more sense, Facebook status updates appear next to the person’s phone number, their latest profile photo appears when they phone. Friends in Singapore who start a google chat come straight through to the phone, all makes me wonder when I will have time to turn it off. 

Yes it's Android! With over 20,000 apps, This phone just works! With the required "office" suites, Web browsers and business features. This phone will take you a long road! It has so many features, their is not enough space in this article to even post it. it's fast, reliable and easy!  

iPhone

The Funky, smart, and Fun phone. Is it for me? YES! it's so easy to work with you will laugh! 

Is it better? Let's see... 

The price isn't cheap at 6,899 rand, it is expensive compared to Android.

The screen is massive. Very good battery. It will replace that old clunky pocket camera of yours, it also includes HD video calling.  

Kaspersky: Android to dominate mobile

"Barcelona - Computer security expert Eugene Kaspersky predicted on Tuesday that Google's Android smartphone operating system will come to dominate the market, reducing Apple and BlackBerry to niche players.

Kaspersky, who founded the leading anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, said there is only "one company, one operating system which follows Microsoft's strategy of the 1990s" when its Windows computer operating system became dominant on personal computers.

"I believe that if Apple, BlackBerry, Microsoft... don't change their strategy very soon we will soon have the same mobile operating system landscape as we have with computers," he told journalists on the sidelines of the mobile phone industry's annual get-together in Barcelona.

Kaspersky predicted Android would eventually end up with 80% of the smartphone market, with Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry sharing the rest with 10% each.

Android dethroned Nokia's Symbian as the top smartphone operating system in the final quarter of 2010 by units shipped, according to market research company Canalys, with its market share leaping from 8.7% in 2009 to 32.5% last year.

Kaspersky's forecast comes amid a major shake-up in the smartphone market.

Nokia, which had difficulties mounting a response to the rise of Android and Apple's iPhone, announced last week it was phasing out Symbian and switching to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 smartphone operating system.

Kaspersky said Microsoft was not repeating for mobiles the strategy of working closely with developers that ensured the success of Windows for personal computers but was instead keeping tight control over Windows Phone 7 like Apple does with its iOS.

"They are going the Apple way... I don't really believe they will have success," he said. "Maybe Nokia will force them to be open."

Both Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer and Nokia's Stephen Elop have emphasised here at the Mobile World Congress they intend to work closely with developers to ensure that outside developers create lots of applications for Windows Phone7 to ensure its popularity with consumers."

from news24.com