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

[hauntedunix.livejournal.com]

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[dennyd.livejournal.com]

New and improved link is new. And possibly improved.

[stuartl.livejournal.com]

I heard bad things about the N95. But I can't remember what any of them were...

[babysimon]

O2 seem to be just starting to sell the N78, which looks like a good N82 replacement - wait a week and see if it shows up in the business phone list?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

My N95 has turned out to be physically quite robust, no mechanical breakdowns so far and I've dropped it several times. Battery life is pretty shit though (everyone says that).

[adamw]

Battery life is shocking, but N95 8GB is much, much better.

N78 is very good, too (we were particularly impressed with the screen and the FM transmitter) - although the keypad is not going to be to all tastes.

[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

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

I've been told by a friend who worked on one of the parts for the iPhone to wait for at least the 2nd if not 3rd edition. They'd already started work on the 2nd but not sure when it will come out. :)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

The 3G iPhone is the second edition, that came out on Monday. Or do you mean second edition of the 3G version?

[uberredfraggle.livejournal.com]

It probably was that one he was talking about. We dont' have it over here so I had no idea it was out yet. :)

They'll be working on the next one already though.

[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.