A good mobile phone for me?
March 8, 2016 at 6:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2016 at 6:32 pm by ReptilianPeon.)
I have remained loyal to BlackBerry for many years, but my most recent BlackBerry, of several years now, is dying. I liked the keyboards, but I also liked that BlackBerry wasn't made by Microsoft or Apple (who made it, as Richard Stallman once said in an interview with RT, "fashionable to have handcuffs put on oneself") and it wasn't Android - because as it's so common people are more likely to be able to put malware onto it, etc, and because it's made by Google and good hates privacy. So, what I am left with?
I have looked into BlackPhones and FireFox OS. I am a bit bummed that newer BlackPhones are on Android, but it still looks like a decent buy. And FireFox OS doesn't have much of a choice of phones with it. Perhaps I'm too harsh on Android though. Any suggestions for the picky consumer? I still kind of like BlackPhone.
Key considerations:
I have looked into BlackPhones and FireFox OS. I am a bit bummed that newer BlackPhones are on Android, but it still looks like a decent buy. And FireFox OS doesn't have much of a choice of phones with it. Perhaps I'm too harsh on Android though. Any suggestions for the picky consumer? I still kind of like BlackPhone.
Key considerations:
- Let's say the maximum I'd be willing to spend is US$250.
- Word processing software bundled as standard is a must.
- Spreadsheet software would be nice too, although that doesn't matter as much, but it would be a welcome additionality.
- Decent web browser; obviously I'd want to use it to visit http://atheistforums.org.
- Calendarial features are also a must, though I suspect most mobile phones now support this.
- Stopwatch/timer.