Phones

[sobrique]

This weekend went fairly well. Back to visit the family, and just chill a bit really.
Kinda nice. Took my parents out for a meal, (belated fathers day), and ... well read a lot of Peter F. Hamilton's "Pandoras star".

Also bimbled into the vodafone shop to see what upgrades they do. No real interest in switching provider, but I think a new handset is in order.

Well, the phone selection has diminished down to:
The Sony Ericsson K750i
An Ericsson, which supports Float's mobile agent has memory expansion and 2Megapixel camera.

The Nokia 6680
3G phone. Probably will cost (about £40-100, depending on what contract tweaks I go for) for upgrade. Has video and a 1.3Megapixel camera. Does anyone have experience of 3G content? e.g. is there any point at all, assuming I'm not going to be using video calls? (apart from maybe once or twice for a laff)

And the Motorola RAZR V3.
Like the man said. Lovely hardware, crap software. But the hardware really is rather lovely, that metal casing is just ...

Sigh, decisions decisions.

Comments

[girl-working.livejournal.com]

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...

[dan-lane.livejournal.com]

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.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Read a book? :)

So, how does LJ work on your 6630?

[dan-lane.livejournal.com]

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

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

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 :)

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

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

[dan-lane.livejournal.com]

Opera lets you browse without images :)

[girl-working.livejournal.com]

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

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

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

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

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

[dan-lane.livejournal.com]

Not to mention video-calling while on the toilet!

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

"Hey, look what I did"

*smirk*

MMS for a whole new level of offensiveness.

[girl-working.livejournal.com]

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

[jorune.livejournal.com]

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.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

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)