New Mobile Phone - help please.

[SNSUN]

Time for a new phone, I've been using my trusty old Nokia 6300 for nearly 4 years now and it's been the best phone I've ever had - I did get a replacement phone about 18 months ago when renewing my contract but it was rubbish. I don't want an I-Phone as I have a Touch, but am not sure what to get.

 

Now after exhausting online search engines looking for a new phone, I've narrowed it down to either:

 

Nokia E72 - good looking candybar phone with QWERTY keyboard

 

Nokia 900 - bulky but witha slideout QWERTY keyboard

 

or take the plunge and go for a touchscreen phone, something I haven't used except on my Touch and go for the:

 

HTC Desire - which has excellent reviews and is not unlike the I-Phone.

 

 

 

Do any of you have these phones and like them? I'm really not sure which I want...

[Essruu]

Sell your iPod Touch and get an iPhone. Any other touch screen will disappoint you in comparison, plus you'll still have the built-in iPod and get proper use out of your Apps. Seems a no-brainer to me.

[Baj]

agreed, why would you want to carry around the ipod touch AND a phone...

[Block 5]

Of the three options it has to be the HTC Desire.

Nokia have taken their eye off the ball and are now playing catch up.

[pedg]

Wife has a desire and its very good. You can get a 16gig micro SD for 20 quid and the phone can handle ogg music files which helps get a fair amount of music on it if you want to go down to a single device.

[SuperMikey]

I would also go with the HTC, brilliant phones. If you want apps and stuff to play about with though, go for the iPhone, but the HTC is better in almost every other respect.

[Saint in Paradise]

Have a look at this one, beats all of them IMHO

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d99_1278645274

 

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[Son of Bob]

http://uk.blackberry.com/devices/blackberrybold9700/?CPID=KNC-kw66043_p8&HBX_PK=rim|73bba377-48f0-4c48-221b-00004dd71b00

[Thedelldays]

http://uk.blackberry.com/devices/blackberrybold9700/?CPID=KNC-kw66043_p8&HBX_PK=rim|73bba377-48f0-4c48-221b-00004dd71b00

I have blackberry

 

good phone, decent organiser, turd for internet

[saint lard]

I have the Nokia n900,you will not be disappointed chap.

Bloody awsome,agreed it is a bit chunky but not so much that you really notice.

You can run so many apps/functions at once it's great.

Firefox on it is great also aswell as the Meamo 5.

Superb camera and video.

I find both slide out and onscreen keyboards are great when using either the net or sms,the stylus works well also.Touch screen is very responsive and scrolls seamlesly whatever task you are using it for,imo.

File manager is very easy to use,has really good storage capacity too, media player is great for watching movies and listening to music,the stereo sound is great.

Has a nice little stand so you don't have to sit and hold it whilst watching stuff and that gives optimum sound and visuals.

The screen works both vertically and horizontally and the internal giroscope runs it smoothly when in phone,dialling pad and contacts mode.

You can really personalise every aspect to make it a laptop and complete comunication device in your pocket.

Most of what you need to know.......

 

http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/

Edited 10 July, 2010 by saint lard

[SNSUN]

I have blackberry

 

good phone, decent organiser, turd for internet

 

My mate at work has a Bold and likes it, but I tend to use it for internet more than anything else now, so that rules that out.

 

 

Thanks for your reviews guys. I have thought long and hard about getting an I-Phone - it's easy to use, I know how to use it, and the new one has come out now with the camera so Ihave that luxury too. One of my mates just bought the Sony Ericsson X10 minipro which looks great too, but I think I'm 80% sure what I'm getting now. A bit more shopping and I should be there.

[sotonjoe]

In a straight head to head it has to be the Desire. It's the iphone and then some, although as some have said the android market isn't quite up there with the appstore yet. It's growing though and all the apps you NEED are there.

 

The fact that it only comes on £30+ a month contracts is a bit of a pain as it takes a bit of the value out of it. I'm running two of the buggers for £30 a month as I got in there early on release.

[pedg]

In a straight head to head it has to be the Desire. It's the iphone and then some, although as some have said the android market isn't quite up there with the appstore yet. It's growing though and all the apps you NEED are there.

 

The fact that it only comes on £30+ a month contracts is a bit of a pain as it takes a bit of the value out of it. I'm running two of the buggers for £30 a month as I got in there early on release.

 

You can get it on a lower contract if you look around. Luckily for us when I got the wife hers TMobile had it on a 160 up front and a tenner a month for 2 years (only 100 mins and 100 text but unlimited internet). Then Tmobile decided it was such a good deal to remove it but it still only costs a tenner a month but they have taken the 160 as advanced payment. Take off the 40 quid I got back via quid co and the phone + 2 years free internet comes to about 200 quid. :D

Edited 10 July, 2010 by pedg

[Saint George]

If you're coming from a Nokia and you need a cell phone primarily to make phone calls, you'll be probably be disappointed with the iphone, especially if it's for business use....It's a POS when it comes to 'phone calls' compared with just about anything else out there...It does loads of other things great...except make quick and easy good quality phone calls.

 

Think of it more as a great pocket computer that at a pinch can also be used as a phone.....You can tell how much emphasis Apple put on the 'phone' side of the device by the crazy design of the ip4 where just by holding it bridges the RF and wifi antenna's and 'detunes' them both.

[saint_stevo]

went from Nokia 5800 to iPhone 4 at the weekend, the phone bit of it isnt great, not as good as the Nokia, but i can hear them, and they can hear me, so meh.

 

The rest of it is exceptional though. Seriously.

[Mark``]

I have an E63 and it does everything i need, Fb, Wifi, good for txts etc. no problems yet, ive had it 3 month

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

Go for the Samsung Galaxy S (Google android), has comparable if not slightly better screen than the iP4's retina screen, has the same touch screen as an iP4 including multi touch. Plus it has a faster processor, than ip4 and doesnt lose signal when you hold it the wrong way!

[SNSUN]

Cheers for all your advice guys, I must say people are very loyal to the phones they own! I deliberated long and hard and realised that in the future all phones will.have touch screen technology so I made the step up and after reading some reviews from pros, plumped for the HTC Desire. Love it so far but it'll take me, the technophobe, a while to learn its functions!

[Block 5]

Cheers for all your advice guys, I must say people are very loyal to the phones they own! I deliberated long and hard and realised that in the future all phones will.have touch screen technology so I made the step up and after reading some reviews from pros, plumped for the HTC Desire. Love it so far but it'll take me, the technophobe, a while to learn its functions!

 

Good move.

Check out the other thread on Android apps.

[solentstars]

Cheers for all your advice guys, I must say people are very loyal to the phones they own! I deliberated long and hard and realised that in the future all phones will.have touch screen technology so I made the step up and after reading some reviews from pros, plumped for the HTC Desire. Love it so far but it'll take me, the technophobe, a while to learn its functions!

 

good phone my brothers got one ,only downside is battery life but better for minutes and contract deals then the over hyped and overpriced iphone4 and you don,t need gaffer type on it to give a good signal .

i think android phones are getting better and better.

[SuperMikey]

Good choice there, HTC phones are brilliant. A bit more serious than the iPhone, but a hell of a lot more practical and useful. Battery life does need to be addressed though.

[pedg]

Plus by buying HTC you don't get satirised like this:

 

 

(Not suitable for anyone adverse to swearing or who think the iphone is the best thing ever).

[sotonjoe]

You can get it on a lower contract if you look around. Luckily for us when I got the wife hers TMobile had it on a 160 up front and a tenner a month for 2 years (only 100 mins and 100 text but unlimited internet). Then Tmobile decided it was such a good deal to remove it but it still only costs a tenner a month but they have taken the 160 as advanced payment. Take off the 40 quid I got back via quid co and the phone + 2 years free internet comes to about 200 quid. :D

 

 

I got mine on the T-Mobile £15 a month for 18months. The upfront charge was £89. That too has 100 mins and 100 text, but you obviously get your choice of booster so I've got unlimited texts. As you know they obviously pulled all those contracts once they saw what their competitors were able to offer!