OT: Could be new phone time

I had a play with the new iPhone last week whilst on holiday in the USA. I'm not a phone freak by any manner of means, but it makes most other phones look very old fashioned indeed.

I'm sure it isn't perfect, but it might be worth waiting for over here - buy a cheapy in the meantime.

I'm not a big fan of Nokias on the whole, but we have 6230is which appear to be largely abuse proof.

But probably not rugged enough for Doki's needs.

Fuck that. I want proper buttons. I've long since decided that phones peaked in their functionality for actually ringing people around the period that the 6310 and the 8310 were produced. However, I've got used to having a camera and a K750i isn't a bad compromise - not too many crashes now the software's been updated and so on. But it'd take some convincing to get me to upgrade to a Carlos Fandango model...

I'm on my 4th 6230i :-) I gave up getting them replaced/fixed when the warranty run out heh. Now I just live with this one and it's faults - new phone time next month anyway.

I'd consider an iPhone if it has UTMS gubbins if/when it comes out here. The US ones seem to have have a slightly enhanced version of GPRS which is only a bit faster than dialup. My T-Mobile UTMS datacard can do a realistic and sustained 1.5Mb. GPRS when I'm not in a UTMS area is painfully slow for full fat browsing these days but it's passable for WAP IMHO.

I doubt an iPhone would stand up to being left by an open window in the rain either, although there seems to be an absence of buttons to suffer from dust ingress. (c: Doki needs some kind of indestructaphone.

Says the man who paid his own hard earned cash for a tarted over Chavalier with a boat-anchor pickup truck engine up front.

Both the Passat and Merc E-class are overweight Kraut barges. Which is why I want to downsize when it's up for replacement next spring.

HTH.

I'd completely forgotten about the W810. Do you lose any functionality over the K750i?

Nope not really, cam is the same, menu system is slightly different, but the 810 has a better MP3 player, it costs 5 quid to change your 750 into a

810 and was the first thing I did when I got mine back in the old days. 810 also comes with kick ass SE headphones, the earbud ones that are sooo much better than the K750, you also get a 500mb card.

K800 is very good and cheap enough now, the 3mb camera is excellent and the MP3 player is much better than the W810, SE phones are very solid, can be dropped lots and are very stable, Nokia's are pretty poor since they went over to Symbian but the functionality on the Nokia out weighs the buggy reboots etc.

There are SonyEricssons that run Symbian and indeed non Symbian Nokias.

Man, doesn't it going to GPRS just give you such rage? I find UMTS performs admirably, you can torrent on it and everything :-)

One of them shit old rubber Nokias :-)

If we are talking good nokia phones, they all run symbian(mostly the n series)

SE phones that run an OS tend to big and bulky and not really in this category, i.e. P900 etc

Wrong.

I'm up for a new phone anytime from now, I'm on Voda, I like the Samsung U700. Anyone played with one? I'm not interested in it having Wifi or a million mega pixel camera, or MP3 player or any of that stuff. Reasonably reliability would be nice, I'm not hard on my phones though so anything not made of tissue should be OK.

Samsung D500 if you're happy with 1.3mpx cam, or D600 if you're looking

2mpx.