Alternative to iPhone?

QQQ

I am going to buy a phone to replace my Nokia N72. The main concern is a quality of the phone. I will never buy Nokia since its joystick became broken and there is a bunch of similar quality issues.
I do not want to buy iPhone because whatever I do I have to ask Apple first but I can't identify any Android phone with reliable quality. Am I being wrong saying the only quality phone on the market is iPhone? Or what is the alternative?

Spank

The HTC Desire is generally regarded as the best on the market at the moment, I don't have 1 myself (am going to get the Orange San Francisco tomorrow which is a phone for my budget (£100)

Tigsteroonie

Marley just got the HTC Wildfire (Android 2.1) for £200 and is pretty impressed with it.

jayme1

your the first to say nokias have low build quality, as it is generally agreed that they have excelent build quality but the software is lacking.

also the iphone has its fair share of problems the loss of signal, the proximity sensor issues the fragility of it being all glass.

android phones to my knowlage are pretty reliable, the HTC desire is pretty good, so to the samsung galaxy s, and the HTC desire HD should carry on that, the main problem identified with android handsets is the poor battery life (a day at most) because android can be pretty power hungry.

also there is windows phone 7 and its phones to consider after all it survived getting grilled longer than the iphone and HTC desire Z

MORPH3US

HTC Desire, problem solved.

boatman

Agree HTC Desire. Although for the money Orange San Francisco is excellent, i have both and to be honest i'd save the £300 and get the SF and put it on the Tmobile £7.50 contract http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/t-mobile-sim-only-12-months-7-50-pl/799732

That-Guy

Just purchased the Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade) for just £100 from the Orange Shop, amazing phone!!

Easy to Unlock and De-Brand (remove orange crap software) for free:
http://www.chrislowthian.co.uk/how-to-unlock-de-brand-and-root-the-zte-blade-orange-san-francisco/1824/

Gets my vote

debitcardmayhem

I am Desire
(posted from my netbook)
Whoops see line one I forgot to edit my bits:cool:

Simon_B_2

If you get an Android phone do not get a HTC legend the reception is appalling mine never picked up a 3G and frequently dropped calls i'm now back on my old iphone 3G, the desire is nice and i wish i'd got one of these in the first place

S0litaire

+1 for HTC Desire (I've got the Desire HD and i Love it)
As for quality of build...
i've dropped mine 3 times from 2ft hight on to a concrete floor (with wood laminate flooring) with only a couple of scratches to show for it. ^_^

p.s. picking up a case for it Monday.... don't want to push my luck too far....

FredHydjack

Spank wrote: »

The HTC Desire is generally regarded as the best on the market at the moment, I don't have 1 myself (am going to get the Orange San Francisco tomorrow which is a phone for my budget (£100)

Agree. I've had both and the HTC urinates all over the Iphone from a mighty great height.