New phone... what to get?

OllyM · 13 Oct 2007 at 13:07

My personal phone contract is due for renewal in about 3 weeks, and I was all set to order an MDA Vario III on T-Mobile... until I tried a T-Mobile phone at home, and had absolutely no signal at all. So that's out the window, which is frustrating because T-Mobile's data packages are great.

O2 and Vodafone are the only two networks that give me a half decent signal at home it seems, so I'm stuck with one or the other - and I can't decide what to get.

I was all set to get an iPhone, but after reading reviews, it seems it's really flawed in lots of ways, and doesn't have any expansion potential.

So.... what do I do?

Oh, I hate Sony Ericsson phones.

lsg1r · 13 Oct 2007 at 13:49

if you don't need wifi theres the samsung ultrasmart f700 coming out soon (initially exclusive on vodafone) linky

I'm currently in a similar situation, the iphone packages are just overpriced for what you get in my view (I'm not going to be using a phone for that much internet browsing :rolleyes:

). However I like SE phones and so am basically trying to decide between the SE w960i (8GB music phone, wifi, symbian & touchscreen) versus the Samsung above. I'm currently edging towards the Samsung as I have a pda with wifi and I hardly use it, yet I use my old p900i occasionally over gprs and the samsung is faster in that area.

ultim · 13 Oct 2007 at 17:37

the f700 looks nice, whats the uk release date?

lsg1r · 13 Oct 2007 at 17:45

ultim said:
the f700 looks nice, whats the uk release date?

um thats a good one, I'm currently under the impression its november but considering the initial announcement by samsung was back in January (if not a bit before) to compete with iPhone it may not be accurate. Same thing with the w960i, no actual release date!

rtk · 14 Oct 2007 at 03:59

First off i'd use t-mobile's website to check your coverage by postcode, its pretty accurate.

Then i have a go of the handset you wanna use, the vario III's for example (i have one myself) are excellent on 3G and pretty much gaurunteed on 2G if in remote locations.

Tunney · 14 Oct 2007 at 13:09

N95 8GB and N81 (8GB) should be out pretty soon.

OllyM · 14 Oct 2007 at 13:10

rtk said:
First off i'd use t-mobile's website to check your coverage by postcode, its pretty accurate.

Then i have a go of the handset you wanna use, the vario III's for example (i have one myself) are excellent on 3G and pretty much gaurunteed on 2G if in remote locations.

I have done, and it says 'good' coverage, but actually trying a T-Mobile phone it can't pick up a signal here, so it's useless!