Samsung Focus or HTC Inspire

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Upgrade time is here again, so its time to try out a new phone. I have narrowed the choices down to the Samsung Focus or the HTC Inspire. What I mainly will be using the phone for is calling, texting, facebook, email, and web browsing. Im sure ill eventually get into the apps, but that will be down the road. This will be my first smartphone, so I have no experience with either Android nor Windows 7 mobile OS. Any advice on which phone to get?

Edit: Also, I do not live in a 3G area, let along a 4G area. So the 4g has no effect on me.
 
Whether or not you live on a 4G area now, sooner or later it will come to your area. If you're planning to keep a phone for the next two years, just future proof it. Whatever you feel now maybe different in the future. That's something to keep in mind. The HTC Inspire seems much more future proof to me.
 
I haven't seen the HTC but I have the Focus and it is a fantastic device.

Browsing is very good and social-notworking is built-into the UI - check it out...
 
What about considering the Atrix 4G when it his? To me, it's arguably better since it does something more than earlier phones. The Inspire 4G is a Desire HD for AT&T -- a good phone, but it's slightly older. The Atrix is dual-core and generally well-received if you're okay with the Blur interface.

I've used the Focus, and I like it, but it's best if you live deeply in the Microsoft ecosystem or want something genuinely fresh over something older but with more features. Great interface touches, but no third-party app multitasking yet, and it currently doesn't save camera settings between uses. Those should be addressed later this year.
 
Social networking is also very good on the HTC Inspire---better than the Focus---because it not only has Facebook integration, it already has Twitter integration and on top of that, Flickr integration as well. Plus its easy to add additional social networking cloud sync systems on the Inspire, all of which are done without any OS updates. Sync services are often bundled with apps themselves and these services can be run independently of the app.

Browsing on the Inspire works extremely well if its anything like the Desire Z/Desire HD. HTC Sense has its own crazy Select Text system that not only selects text to copy, but also to search and translate.

In any case, nothing beats HTC Friendstream to have a 24/7 viewable, streaming widget of your Facebook and Twitter feeds. You can add Flickr to that too.

If you're considering the Atrix, Motoblur is another socially oriented UI on top of Android with all the prebuilt in social networking syncs.
 
i Agree.. HTC Inspire S seems way lot better.. check the specs more on timtechs.com, i saw that the other day on their site..
 
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