mobile phone contracts, internet use

[djinuk]

ok heres the deal, i need a phone thats **** hot on the internet, my boss is moving behind me at work which means i need to be able to get on rtoc , msn etc via my mobile instead.


I dont talk much on phone so minuites isnt a problem.

Orange and o2 are best looking providers for me, IVe been looking at deals with the blackbery curve 8520 , the htc touch 2, and the nokia e71 i think it is..


Any comments,

[TrixNFlix]

iPhone on 02. Had it over a year and it's the best thing I've ever bought. Whenever you see me on this forum, 9 out of 10 times I will be accessing it from my phone.

[Big Steve - Raider]

Yeah i'd tend to agree, Blackberry's aren't really the best thing at viewing the RTOC with, i'd know!

[Hoolio]

Which blackberry do you have Steve? The storm is better than some as it has a larger screen though I would have gone for an I phone if O2 wasn't usless around here. About twenty five a month with Vodafone.

[djinuk]

iphone contracts seem to be massivley expensive though, ideally id need unlimited texts and internet at a minimum.

[Big Steve - Raider]

Which blackberry do you have Steve? The storm is better than some as it has a larger screen though I would have gone for an I phone if O2 wasn't usless around here. About twenty five a month with Vodafone.

I've got a Blackberry Curve 8900 and you can access the RTOC on the phone & get onto RTOC Live but it's a bit cumbersome becasue it doesn't have multi window browsing so when you make a post you have to either re-load the RTOC or keep clicking back thru the post to get back to the page you want to look at next?

[Hoolio]

Know what you mean, I just click on boards up the top. But yes it would be nice to open different things and swop between them without reopening.

[TrixNFlix]

I can open upto 8 windows.

On a serious note, the iPhone is the best and most intergrated phone I have ever used. The stuff you can do on it is frightening. Damian I didn't think the price of contracts was to bad, think I'm paying £35.

[djinuk]

any idea what you get at that price ?

[TrixNFlix]

I think it's 500 minutes, 600 texts, so you would struggle with the texts!

[djinuk]

ahh pap.. hmm, id probably be ok with the texts to be fair :P

[TrixNFlix]

Sorry damian wrong way round, 600 min , 500 texts.

[djinuk]

hmm ill look into it.. what it like to actually txt on.. im a bit worried about touchscreen only keypads like.

[Chris Hebden]

I have a Blackberry 8900 Curve and dont rate it at all! Get the Iphone or the Nokia N71 i think it is, i am with o2 and pay £5 a month on top of normal line rental for all net surfing which i do alot of from my phone.

[djinuk]

hmm think im going to nip into the o2 phone shop..

thing i notice about blackberrys is they are quite sly about tehre deals and offer the email and internet package completly seperate as blackberry seem to use there own servers.

[BriC]

Don't be worried about touchscreens - they're good.. especially on the iphone. Also, I'd recommend a touchscreen if you want to do a lot of internet browsing - it's a right pain in the arse trying to use the joypad thing to select stuff on pages. Well, it is on my Nokia N96.

I think I'll be getting an Iphone or one of these Android phones next, but definitely not another Nokia

[djinuk]

android phone ? whats that.. i like the sound of it.. I have a friend that works at o2, i wonder if he could sort me a deal out on an iphone.. hmm

[BriC]

android phone ? whats that.. i like the sound of it.. I have a friend that works at o2, i wonder if he could sort me a deal out on an iphone.. hmm

Android is a new operating system made by Google and run on other phones.. couple of examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Hero

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Milestone

It is basically aiming to be a serious iphone contender. They all have touchscreens (I think.. or the majority do anyway) and an app store, and many other iphone-esque features plus more..

Whether they do it as well, or as smoothly as the iphone is another argument, but they are supposed to be good.

[Trevhib]

Once the iphone has a flash/light (for the cam), half decent video capture resolution, internet flash/vid playing capabilities and twice the battery life, it will be absolutely bloomin' brilliant.

At the moment the HTC Hero and/or HTC HD2 look like the only/closest contenders for the iphone's top spot.

[dangerous dave]

the iphone might be a hyped up ponse phone but i love mine, and most people i know that mugged it off for other phones have joined the iphone following in the end..

first one was bashed about and died after 8 months, so i bought another outright for £540 thats still mint after a further 8 months... got a zapp full film cover, looks shat but under it the phones perfect

contracts up now and guess what i'll be getting, might wait till the new models out as i think it may be released on another network..

[gtmatt]

H T C phone is the one or the iPhone best 2 phones IMO I'm using a 3g iPhone had it 12months sweet as

[TNT Tricky Nicky]

If you can hold out a few weeks i think you'd be able to get the iPhone with a better deal as orange and vodafone are now aloud to sell them so I think it'll spark a pricing war, they'll all offer unlimited Internet access so it'll give you more choice. I'd recommend the iPhone over the blackberrys as that's what I swapped over from. Couldn't comment on the offer options other than to say nokia would probably be the simplest to navagate as that's one of their main selling points

[royz]

hmm ill look into it.. what it like to actually txt on.. im a bit worried about touchscreen only keypads like.

texting is easy on the i phone it puts the conversations in bubbles so youhave the conversation on screen.

[Spooky]

I've got an iPhone hacked on Vodafone...really good phone brought mine outright too, would recommend Blackberry too.