Phone Phun

[denny]

Work will give me any phone on this list:
http://businessshop.o2.co.uk/phones_index.aspx?y=1&groupid=1

But I want one of these:
http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4-/3519402/Product.html (Nokia N82)

Which in typically unhelpful fashion, O2 stopped selling about 15 seconds before I got the go-ahead to get one.

So. Does anyone want any of the phones on the list linked above, enough to pay reasonable money for it? If so, I'll seriously consider getting whatever phone it is, selling it to you, and putting the money towards buying the N82 from play.com (for example, an unlocked N95-8GB is 390 quid on play.com - make me an offer for the O2 version).

It's either that, or I can get a 3G iPhone, and I'm not really that impressed with their spec. Most particularly, I'm not impressed with the fact that Apple have crippled the bluetooth stack so you can't use the device as a modem - aggravating wankers.

Or I could get the N95 for myself, but I don't like slidey-flippy-movey-bits phones - I'm always convinced I'm going to break them.

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

If you're happy with jail breaking an iPhone, and using SOCKS you can use the iPhone as a 'modem', connecting to it via WiFi: http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/tether-your-iphone

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Probably it has been intentionally crippled because the telcos are offering 'true unlimited' data transfer. O2 originally had the usual 'unlimited*' transfer, but I believe it is now actually unlimited. Obviously they don't want people downloading DVD ISOs over the iPhone.