To be honest mate, im also desperate for this phone. But im going to wait till its released first. Then see prices/reviews![]()
who in their right mind would pay £450 for a phone
Why would someone want to buy a phone sim free when they can normally get the phone free on a contract? I guess you ahve to buy the sim free phone and then buy a contract for data and calling whcih would be a monthly charge plus the 450 for the phone in the first place.?
its effectivly a laptop for starters, not a phone.
second, anyone with a contract pays that over 18 months, plus some.
18 * 35 = 630....
It's nothing like a laptop in all respects. £450 will buy you a really good laptop. This phone is the equivilent of an old p3 laptop with no keyboard. Also you can get almost all phones free on a contract. I've spent £100 on phones in 3 years and i've had 9 good / high end phones.
Yes you pay that with a contract, but also what do you get with a contract? Minutes and texts, i pay £25 a month and thats it.
Jack of all trades but master of none.
The GPS on all phones is fiddly and not very user friendly.
Most phone cameras fall into the category of OMG more megapixels, you need a decent bit of glass in front a a decent sensor to get a nice pic, a phone can not do this.
To me a business phone is a communication device, it needs to have a long lasting batetry and does what is expected of it well - things like email and phonecalls.
It's not a pointless debate at all, there' no way you can tell me that you will not be able to function any better with a £500 do it all phone as opposed to a free with contract Nokia E51 for example and with the £500 save you can buy a proper GPS system that you can stick to your windscreen and wont loose where you are when answer it when it rings and a good camera to take nice pictures with. You'll find having to charge a device every day because its everything you need gets very irritating. I was a field engineer for a little and had an N95 which annoyed me to high hell because it didnt do any one thing well and the battery kept dying on me. I would have much rather had a decent phone and a Tom Tom
I have had a couple of orange SPV's on a £25 a month contract, so it is doable.
i think you should look in to the omnia a bit before passing stupid judgments.
the phone is £380 ex the vat (£500?), and as its a WM device you can use tomtom or any other GPS software. The camera is also being praised as one of the best so far on mobile phone devide to date for its features and ease of use.
the battery life is also much better than any other similar device out there. I have heard it lasts two days with medium use thanks to its Li-Ion 1440 mAh battery but even so a phone whose battery lasts longer than a working day is fine by me.
This phone can be had for free on contract by the way.
Jack of all trades but master of none.
The GPS on all phones is fiddly and not very user friendly.
Most phone cameras fall into the category of OMG more megapixels, you need a decent bit of glass in front a a decent sensor to get a nice pic, a phone can not do this.
To me a business phone is a communication device, it needs to have a long lasting batetry and does what is expected of it well - things like email and phonecalls.
It's not a pointless debate at all, there' no way you can tell me that you will not be able to function any better with a £500 do it all phone as opposed to a free with contract Nokia E51 for example and with the £500 save you can buy a proper GPS system that you can stick to your windscreen and wont loose where you are when answer it when it rings and a good camera to take nice pictures with. You'll find having to charge a device every day because its everything you need gets very irritating. I was a field engineer for a little and had an N95 which annoyed me to high hell because it didnt do any one thing well and the battery kept dying on me. I would have much rather had a decent phone and a Tom Tom
I have had a couple of orange SPV's on a £25 a month contract, so it is doable.
I'm not argueing against the phone, i'm argueing the fact that paying so much for it is silly when i can be had free on a contract.
I have been looking at phones and had a play around with the omnia and it's like any other PDA and i wasnt that impressed at all. At £380 the Omnia is a very expensive PDA
The point im argueing is that i dont think that convergance of devices is a good thing, the camera takes decent pics but then again my digital camera which cost me £100 does a much better job, as for using tom tom on a mobile, its never gong to be as user friendly as a dedicated gps unit.
I'm not passing any stupid judgements at all, it seems like you've paid a lot of money for a device that to be honest is brilliant, but totally pointless and your defending your choice without acknowledging a single point i've made.