My next phone - looking always to the future :)

I've been tempted long enough. The first two are what are available in the Indian market now. While the others are those on the global list.
Samsung Galaxy S
HTC Desire
HTC Desire HD
IPhone 4
Nexus S

Thanks to the IPod Touch 4 that I got about a month ago, I'm quite impressed with the IPhone apps platform and the number of "useful" apps on it. Not sure how the android market stacks up to that for those apps that I seek now and possibly want in the future.

The Indian market unfortunately has no "real sale" even during peak holiday seasons for things such as these. Given that this is already year end and there are rumors about dual core mobile processors (from Samsung, Qualcomm, ARM, Intel) hitting the market in Q1 of 2011, I'm tempted to postpone the "always in the future" purchase decision. But then, there's also the thought that with more powerful processors, battery may be a bigger problem and hence possibly not worth it.

Let's see how this goes.

Weird Problem with Itunes - no podcasts for me

I remember that I didn't accept the Apple Itune Store Application Agreement (or something to that effect) while installing Itunes. As a result, I'm not able to see the podcast, movies, music tabs on Itunes. To understand what I mean, see my Itunes tab below.



See, it doesn't show the movies/music/podcasts tab. In fact there's no way I can subscribe to new podcasts from the podcast directory. Clicking the "podcasts directory" button takes me to the application store, not podcast directory!

No amount of uninstalling/reinstalling ITunes asks me that Licensing question nor does it bring on the movies/music/podcasts tab.

Does anyone know what I'm missing in getting this to work?