Mobile Phones

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:49 pm

breaksRbest wrote:not all phones have the ability to use an MP3 as a ringtone

ghetto kitty wrote:ive got a nokia 6300 i think it is?

luckily i checked that the 6300 does before i posted that though

most phones on plans do have mp3 these days, its mostly those crappy prepaid ones that dont.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:58 pm

so i'm going to be renewing my contract pretty soon and think i'll stick with optarse.

question is, is it worth getting an iphone or not?

i'm a technological dunce when it's all said and done and really only want my phone to be able to make calls, send messages (text and pictures), take the occasional snap and look pretty.

i reckon iphones look way too complicated and half the crap on there i'd never use. mad street cred though.

meh. dilly of a pickle!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:23 pm

I like my phone,,, highly recommend

sony-ericsson W910i

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:33 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote:send messages (text and pictures)

Do the new iPhones do MMS?

I thought they didn't?

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:37 pm

^^ true, they don't

gheyness

Jinx · Post by **Jinx** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:39 pm

You can get apps that allow you to MMS though

kronz · Post by **kronz** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:15 pm

played with an iphone the other day.

Ups: Looks good, nice apps, street cred etc.
Downs: To hard to type a text! No MMS.

Verdict: iphone=good if you were not looking for a phone in the first place but rather a cool gizmo or you are happy for it to take ages to type a text.

a1studmuffin · Post by **a1studmuffin** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:23 pm

You can set up MMS to work via email pretty easily, why bother though when you've got on-the-go email?

As for typing speed, like any device there's a learning curve - you'll ramp up pretty quickly, I can type damn fast on it now. The autocorrect stuff is brilliant.

Downsides: You can't text with one hand or while walking fast, and battery life isn't so great.
Upsides: Surfing the net/checking your emails on the loo.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:55 pm

kronz wrote: Verdict: iphone=good if you were not looking for a phone in the first place but rather a cool gizmo or you are happy for it to take ages to type a text.

i find iphone way way faster for texting than my old phone.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:56 pm

I'll keep that in mind next time I get an email from you A1

a1studmuffin · Post by **a1studmuffin** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:50 pm

Just be glad I don't leave voicemails.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:15 pm

I've become a machine at SMS'ing since I got an iPhone

I was slow as fuck on teh ol' Nokia

witty, what seems complicated about teh iPhone? you wanna make a call, you press teh phone icon, you wanna send a text you hit teh SMS icon, you wanna check teh weather......and so on

a1studmuffin · Post by **a1studmuffin** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:51 pm

The one thing that's caught me out with SMSing on the iPhone - it remembers the last SMS conversation you had and displays it on screen when you back into SMS at a later date. I'm so used to typing my message first, then being allowed to choose who I want to send it to, that I've sent SMSes to the wrong person a few times.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:03 pm

dangerous

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:51 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote:i reckon iphones look way too complicated and half the crap on there i'd never use. mad street cred though.

erm, much, much, much, much less crap on them than nokias and far easier to use ...

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:02 am

i will get iphone when they make it smaller

shouldn't be too long...

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:10 am

brb: fancy = complicated i tend to find. hype = fail in my experience. technophobe of sorts tbh.

i will think it over. if the internet stuff on it is free, i might consider. but really...i don't like the idea of being 'connected' all the time.

Post by **fooishbar** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:18 am

witty_pseudonym wrote:brb: fancy = complicated i tend to find. hype = fail in my experience. technophobe of sorts tbh.

in the most case, you're right. people just cram so much shit in and are so concerned with pointless nonsense that it ends up impossible to use. iphone isn't that though, it's clean and simple in general, and especially when compared to all the insane bullshit in nokias in particular these days ...

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:22 am

hmmm...i was going to go with a nokia, but if they're more complicated, forget about it.

i think it over. thanks ya'll.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:46 am

doesn't have push to talk (PTT) tbh... best feature of nokias imo

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:04 pm

Cup and string.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:41 pm

Google have just announced their android market

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:29 am

Finalists in google android developer challenge

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:23 pm

Has anyone got anything useful to say about the Nokia N85?

Seems to be one of few to offer the combination of GPS, wifi, tri-band 3G (America FA1L), non-Windows, non-crap camera and fitting in pocketness that I'm after. Have seen mixed reports about build quality and battery life though...

And Symbian plays nicely with Fring, no? Skype via wifi or bust.

Can has for well cheap if I decide by next week

Post by **fooishbar** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:01 pm

eh, it runs the newest version of s60 of anything i've seen other than whatever the touchscreen ones' product names are (5800 xpressmusic? n97?) and maybe the e66, and that's had some mad improvements. but really, it's still an nseries: symbian is still amazingly shit, it's still slow as hell, it still weighs as much as the sun, it's still clunky, the hardware is still crap, and you still want to throw it into the sea.

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:18 am

Haha, ringing endorsement or what... Thanks

I've only really been looking for the last week, so nfi what the go is with the current crop. A bit confused as to why the combination of features I want is so fucking hard to find

. If it could be achieved with NO games or music, I'd be even happier. Am I dreaming??

If only iPhones weren't so pocket-FA1L

. Needs more iPhone nano or summat...

skiba · Post by **skiba** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:56 am

whats the best company to get the iphone through?

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:42 am

My missus got a sweet deal through Optus.

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:49 am

retzie wrote:Haha, ringing endorsement or what... Thanks

I've only really been looking for the last week, so nfi what the go is with the current crop. A bit confused as to why the combination of features I want is so fucking hard to find . If it could be achieved with NO games or music, I'd be even happier. Am I dreaming??

If only iPhones weren't so pocket-FA1L . Needs more iPhone nano or summat...

hmm, i'm much much happier with the iphone in my pocket than any of the nokias (except the 6500) because it's about half the thickness (at least, the 3g is). the n82 is probably the closest to what you're after, except that it doesn't do american umts/3g frequencies.

also, being entirely serious, have you used symbian/s60 for any length of time?

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:52 am

I love my Nokia 6500 classic.

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:17 pm

fooishbar wrote:hmm, i'm much much happier with the iphone in my pocket than any of the nokias (except the 6500) because it's about half the thickness (at least, the 3g is). the n82 is probably the closest to what you're after, except that it doesn't do american umts/3g frequencies.

also, being entirely serious, have you used symbian/s60 for any length of time?

Front surface area is a bit more of a problem for me than volume (li'l pockets). This pretty much rules out candy bars too

I haven't had a play with any smartphone OS's. Dunno how I can change this.... I am working on the assumption that WiMo will make me want to break things as much as the real version and if I'm not considering an iPhone, then what else....??

What's the go with Symbian anyway? Honestly wouldn't have the slightest one way or the other.... I'm not especially attached to even getting a smartphone, but I've been lead to believe that one cannot has wifi Skype any other way

(In all likelihood, I will just dither about until something rad comes up, or my current phone dies and I'm forced to drop my standards....)

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:27 pm

oh right, yeah, iphone loses on surface area.

windows mobile is about as bad as you think, but then symbian is at least just as bad. layout makes you want to shank someone (anything you want to do involves 27 levels of menus), it's slow as shit, crashes all the time ... it's absolutely insane.

the ones with s60 fp3 or whatever (e66, n97, etc) are slightly more civilised and the 5800 is a lot more civilised (but massive) in terms of the layout and not being so slow, but jesus.

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:30 pm

Hmmmm, sounds like smartphones are still fairly not-smart all 'round

. I'm still intrigued to see if anything less completely shit turns up on the Android front. Sounds like now ain't the time for me to be buying though....

Thanks Foo

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:10 pm

heh, np. i reckon the palm pré looks pretty deng good. android is still epic fail, but might improve despite the odds.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:21 pm

retzie wrote:Hmmmm, sounds like smartphones are still fairly not-smart all 'round .

dont think they would sell that well if the marketed them as "dumb phones". mind you I'm no marketing genius. in fact im not an anything genius.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:25 pm

finally gave in and got myself an iphone.

I love it.

skiba · Post by **skiba** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:17 pm

smart phone with a linux os woudl be great

Post by **fooishbar** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:31 pm

skiba wrote:smart phone with a linux os woudl be great

palm pré runs linux on the ti omap, which has fully open specs as well.

skiba · Post by **skiba** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:32 pm

fooishbar wrote:
skiba wrote:smart phone with a linux os woudl be great
palm pré runs linux on the ti omap, which has fully open specs as well.

damn, thats cool

whats the software for them like at the moment?

Post by **system** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:42 pm

skiba wrote:
fooishbar wrote:
skiba wrote:smart phone with a linux os woudl be great
palm pré runs linux on the ti omap, which has fully open specs as well.
damn, thats cool
whats the software for them like at the moment?

the palm pre is currently unreleased.

(the iphone is running bsd unix btw.)

skiba · Post by **skiba** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:41 pm

damn, thats cool

whats the software for them like at the moment?[/quote]
the palm pre is currently unreleased.

(the iphone is running bsd unix btw.)[/quote]

damn the palm pre looks very cool, might look into one of those as i want a new phone like yesterday but the only thing that grabs me at the moment is the iphone.

Post by **huge** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:25 pm

nokia e70

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:01 pm

skiba wrote:smart phone with a linux os woudl be great

Google Android is linux based...

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:14 am

Who needs a phone when you have a casio calculator watch.

Seriously

Kaiproject · Post by **Kaiproject** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:58 pm

speaking of wrist watches, mobile phone wrist watch have just been patented by an Aussie company

http://www.current.com.au/news/article/ZSCITWMVSP.html

"Some models in this current range of smart watch phones and smart phones feature handwriting recognition so you can write text messages. Cooke also demonstrated the LCD screen and multimedia capabilities by playing a Matrix movie."
"“We’re aiming for 100,000-plus in the first year and then increasing 10-fold after that,” he said."

Heard somewhere they'll be like $500

quick · Post by **quick** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:14 am

anyone got or seen the Nokia E71?

thinking of maybe this one for my travels...

Post by **fooishbar** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:53 am

apophenian wrote:
skiba wrote:smart phone with a linux os woudl be great
Google Android is linux based...

and it's still fucking awful.

quick, the e71 is pretty much the same as every other e/n series phone. pretty sluggish, really not great. but eh, if you don't mind current nokias (5800/n97 excluded), then the e71 is no worse than the others. keyboard really is small tho.

dengelman · Post by **dengelman** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:36 am

quick: e71 is actually a really nice feeling phone imo. not as plasticky as most. gets excellent reviews almost unversally (but foo knows more than i).

You should know that it doesnt have a 3.5mm headphone jack - pretty much a dealbreaker i think, spec if oyu want it for travel, as would need to carry separate mp3.

new e72 has 3.5mm and 5mp camera. out in uk but not here yet... I would get that one if you are thinking e71...

i'm looking for phone also...

trying to convince myself that there is something better than iphone.

htc hero looks as close as anyone has got. first android thing i would consider. just dunno about splashing the cash on a stoopid phone...

Post by **huge** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:18 am

yes is very hard to find something other than an iphone lol. gahs

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:26 am

why not just get an iphone?