Ed&#39;s journal

3G - Not worth it. I had it on 3 - never used it. Ever.

IMO:

Nokia - Fantastic phones. Was very tempted this time around. Nice, they work, and they're a phone company. Never had an issue with any Nokia... :)

Razr - I love mine. :) Nice & loud (good with my hearing!) and thin, cool and pretty. Software, yeah, crap, but it's a phone! The speaker phone & voice dialing work well (er, 'cept my voice + voice dialling = dodgy anyway!) and it's got the small USB charging port... Big bonus for me as I can leave the USB cable at home to charge at home and the USB -> Plug at work. :) No video...

K750i - IMO? A phone on a camera isn't worth it. Get a digicam. *reads up on the 'phone* The fact they're selling it as a phone and a camera makes me wary 'cause a 'phone isn't a camera! Having said that, I've had a Sony Ericsson I think... It was OK. It was a phone. Radio is a nice touch.

Hmmm... Personally, I can see your problem! All are nice... I like flip-phones 'cause then I don't press the wrong button when I forget to lock it...

I think it depends whether you want a 'phone or a toy... :P I have a camera, I have a PDA, I don't /need/ lots of snacky extras. And I wanted a cool looking flip phone. Hence the RAZR. 3G isn't worth it... But Nokias are nice and usually steady phones... The Ericsson looks ugly to me, really... And the fact they're making such a big fuss over the camera puts me off a little...

However, both the Nokia and Ericsson have memory card ports... Again, toy/PDA or 'phone?

Decide what you're going to use it for and whether you want a cool looking 'phone or a do-it-all toy...

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Three screwed the pooch on their content. Vodafone 3G will be 'open' access to ... well everything on the 'net.
This becomes especially handy when I start looking at PDA -> 3G phone, to do stuff on the net at 300kbps-2Mbps.

And in theory, the Nokia 6680 is a rather funky phone in that sense, with useful 'stuff' built in. Video calls are a bit of a white elephant, but decent web access is a fairly handy feature (let's face it, WAP is cwap).

A camera on a phone is handy, simply because I always carry a phone, I don't always carry a camera. (I don't actually own a digital camera, but that's a secondary issue).

Oh, and vodafone don't have the Razr V3 in stock at the moment, due to a recall. At the moment, I've got several 'stacked' contacts, with multiple numbers. I can live with transferring those and splitting them up, but it's something of an annoyance.

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Not all 3G is equal... Hutchison Three decided to give it's users access to a limited selection of content that it kept total control over (only recently have they opened their network up to other content providers). This meant users wanting full internet access were stuck with shitty horoscopes and football results.

Vodafone 3G is marketed at two core audiences, the 'Live!' crowd who want football scores, horoscopes and the latest from the big brother house... and business users who want reliable high speed data access to VPN into their office from the train. The upshot of this is that while Vodafone want you to use 3G to browse their content you actually have complete unrestricted Internet access which makes 3G infinitely more useful .

3G isn't worth it on Three, but on other networks 3G is very good value for money.

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Hmmm...

Yeah 3's 3G sucks.

But I have 'net at work & 'net at home... So not too fussed 'bout 'net elsewhere. :) Oh, and a PDA for 'net in wireless areas... :P

Meh. That reminds me. Must get mem card out of camera...

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but but but... what do you do between work and home when there isn't any WiFi?!... oh, thats another thing.... the Nokia works really well with my iPaq.

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Read a book? :)

So, how does LJ work on your 6630?

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I splashed out and bought a copy of Opera for Series 60, it works great :)

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Hmm, now there's an idea.

Still come down to: All singing, all dancing brick, vs. little diddy that ain't all that smart, but makes phone calls just fine :)

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Hmm, my friends page is 1mb. 350k without images. That could start adding up rather fast... :)

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Opera lets you browse without images :)

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Hmmm, pity I doubt there's a version for the V3...

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Unlikely - V3s are, as you point out, phones, not 'smart' phones :)

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Net at home, and net at work, but with 3G you get net on the bus, train, in the pub, when you're visiting family, and when you're in the toilet, and when you're at a wedding and ...

Hmm, that's got some promise ... ;p

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Not to mention video-calling while on the toilet!

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"Hey, look what I did"

*smirk*

MMS for a whole new level of offensiveness.

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Er, now I've been known to use my PDA on the loo to web browse, but video calling... Er...

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I tried to buy a 6630 from Orange, there was one proviso which stopped me. It had to sync with my T2, the orange tried all manner of setups and differing phones but it didn't happen. I couldn't web surf so no sale.

I believe that Palm need to update its phone link software, until that time 3G is out of reach. When will that happen? Unknown. 6630 looked good but I understand that the 6680 is superior.

Presumably this is pie in the sky as you need to have a phone without a camera? what about the new simple phones from Vodafone.

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They've changed the rules on cameras, because they realised that they were ridiculous. They're now 'don't use the camera (on site), or you get sacked'.

My Palm is almost a non-event for phone linking. However, I'm working on blagging PDAs from work, and the iPAQ allegedly works very nicely indeed with the 3G phones - to the point where you can do fun stuff like VNC into a server. (telnet, of course, is as straightforward as it ever was)

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oooh Peter F Hamilton...

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I have very limited experience of the k750i so I can't really comment on it beyond saying that I found the menus awkward.

I've given my opinion on the V3 (nice hardware, bad software) but there was one more thing... those buttons!!! they look so great until you try and use them while not paying attention, they are all flat so they all feel the same :(

The 6680 would be my choice, you'll probably never use video calling (I think I've made 3 or 4 video calls on my 6630) and you might not want to use 3G data (Can't. stop. checking. LJ) but it's still a solid well featured phone. And for a smartphone it's quite speedy (though not as fast as the not-smart 6230).

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Meh. I have to agree. :)I love my V3, but I use it for calling, not for much else!

So I'd go with the Nokia, they're solid, reliable and nice. :)

I just like my cool looking 'phone. :D And the USB charging. :)

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