mobile contract due for renewal, recommended phones/contracts?

[geordieneil]

spoke to orange, they have offered me the HTC desire, 600 mins unlimited texts, unlimited internet (fair usage max 500mb) for £17.50 p/m (vat inc)







thoughts? should i snap call and take it.......or barter for a HTC HD

bit in bold always makes me laugh

htc desire is the bollocks, abs love mine and don't know anyone with one that doesn't. probs snap take that

btw neil, had a look in that cafe near the pigeons yesterday, no sign on hot east european waitresses. gonna check again at weekend

The Desire HD is better if you can get one of them (better in most ways - more powerful, better camera, more internal memory, better screen, but slightly larger, so that could be a big negative for some).

That deal from Orange sounds good - but only if you can get a decent signal

yeah my concern is the signal.....orange is pants for internet, but they teamed up with t mobile, so surely should be fine with 2 networks.

dan, can u watch tv on the desire?

[kinboshi]

When I'm out and about I sometimes watch Sky Sports on my phone with very few problems. I've also watched dodgy streams of boxing (De Gale fight recently) on my phone. The browser on Android supports flash so as long as the site doesn't require a specific plug-in it'll work fine. As long as you have a connection of course. I'm on T-mobile so we should have the same coverage now? Mine's not usually too bad.

Battery life gets hammered if you do a lot of this sort of stuff. So better if plugged in, or alternatively get yourself a few spare batteries if you're away from a charger for a day or so.

[geordieneil]

Why do techies choose Android over iPod then? I've got a similar choice to make at the mo




This phone just ain't cutting it in the UK!

not much of a tecky, but i recomend this baby


 


and in action

[mondatoo]

Why do techies choose Android over iPod then? I've got a similar choice to make at the mo




This phone just ain't cutting it in the UK!

I pay £40 pm and have this phone, I'm such a tw@t

[geordieneil]

Managed to persuade orange to give me the HTC Desire HD Black
600 Mins
ultd texts
500gb internet
50 pic messages

For (i think) a very reasonable £17.50 p/m (vat inc)




and i too am a tw@t

[kinboshi]

Managed to persuade orange to give me the HTC Desire HD Black
600 Mins
ultd texts
500gb internet
50 pic messages

For (i think) a very reasonable £17.50 p/m (vat inc)




and i too am a tw@t

Looks like you're a tw@t with a great deal!

[Supernova]

I'd check which of the networks cover your area best* and then go for the HTC, I have a Wildfire which I love and got as part of a deal with an internet dongle from Vodaphone for £20 a month.

*by best I mean actually work, I have a friend whose mobile won't pick up in doors so she has to get in the car and drive up a hill to make a phone call!

[bhoywonder]

That's a great deal....n watching tv is a breeze....crystal clear on wi-fi

[geordieneil]

That's a great deal....n watching tv is a breeze....crystal clear on wi-fi

yep pretty chuffed with the deal, get my new phone tuesday

[ ] i am a whizz kid geek, and will know how to use it fully in days
[X] wont have a clue how to use it so might aswell have got an old nokia


was very tempted with this iphone

[geordieneil]

I'd check which of the networks cover your area best* and then go for the HTC, I have a Wildfire which I love and got as part of a deal with an internet dongle from Vodaphone for £20 a month.

*by best I mean actually work, I have a friend whose mobile won't pick up in doors so she has to get in the car and drive up a hill to make a phone call!

V similar here living right out in the sticks. Orange offer a 25% discount to us - which would be nice, but the fact there is zero coverage!!

Saving 17.50 a month HTC v iPod sounds fantastic and v tempting. I take it HTC plays its music as MP3's...and there ain't too much difference?

i had similar problems in my last house, with orange some phones have uma signal option, where u can use your home broadband wifi as a booster, worked great for me

[geordieneil]

Well i got my new phone yesterday, and love it. very surprised of the amount of great stuff that came preloaded.
   loved the gizmo that allowed me to copy all my contacts (used to hate the retyping of all your contacts everytime you get a new phone) and also an option to copy all my SMS'S from my old phone.....great little gizmo, some important and useful messages  in there.......so press accept i did...............................

THEN

Without warning from orange about this, it started to resend every f**king text i have ever sent or recieved from the last year to every f**king contact i had on my phone......including family, friends, enemies, ex girlfriends, one night stands, ex employers, future employers.........basically everyone. 1 mate of mine has recieved over 900, his phone was beeping every 20 seconds for 8 hours straight, and was obviously pissed off come 11.30pm when he wanted to go to bed, but his phone was his alarm and couldn't even turn it off.

   Phoned orange several times to try and stop this.....the usual "its out of our control, its an android/htc issue and its not our fault"................OH WONDERFUL!!!!.....Yeah, but why the fricking hell couldn't you of warned me that this may happen

FML




PS..........I THINK THE PHONE IS GREAT STILL  

[Bongo]

Erm, does that mean every text you ever sent was saved on your old phone?

[gatso]

lol. good job you got a tariff with unlimited texts

[Bongo]

lol. good job you got a tariff with unlimited texts

Will be funny when they say that several thousand in a few hours isn't "fair use" though.

[geordieneil]

Erm, does that mean every text you ever sent was saved on your old phone?

Really don't know, i delete most "unimportant" texts, several thousand got sent and i don't think that i have that many on my old phone........so my guess is, is every text i've sent or recieved deleted or not since i first used my old phone

[ ] i am really happy with this situation
[ ] my contacts are probably happy too
[X] still like my new phone


take this as a warning to others getting a new htc desire.............dont use the copy sms