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phone renewal coming up. do i go for the blackberry 9700 or i-phone contract, with orange?

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Both are a rip-off - you're just paying £££ for the brand names in both cases.

Go for a cheaper clone of whichever takes your fancy (e.g. the Nokia E63 is a Blackberry clone - I got one free with a £15/month deal from Virgin, including unlimited texts and unlimited internet access).

iPhone

Options:
1. Blackberry, which personally I like (i's got the Curve), although the company pays for it, extremely reliable, computer-in-your-pocket, good for lots of lovely apps (GoogleMaps, frinstance) that they don't charge you for.

2. Apple's latest incarnation of Steve Jobs' ShitInAShinyWhiteBox. Join the emo kids as they wear down their fingerprints on a phone the battery of which has the half-live of a mayfly with a hacking cough and a screen more fragile than a gnat's hymen.

No contest as far as I am concerned - but I would agree with Senor Lazarus about the Nokia. The Finns provide my personal phone-of-choice, and my pocket currently cradles the delighfully slim n'sexy 7510.

And here's 5 more reasons why you shouldn't go anywhere near an Apple product without the protection of 14 saints, a gross of rosaries, and enough holy water to float a battleship

Do you need to access a corporate intranet infrastructure?

Yes - Blackberry

No - iPhone.

Everything else is crap. You don't need to take my word for it... go buy one, regret it, then spend the next 2 years of life trying to justify the purchase to your friends and neighbors. Droid owners are just embarrasinfg.

the battery of which has the half-live of a mayfly

a screen more fragile than a gnat's hymen.

The phone's got to be the one you REALLy prefer, the contractor's usually a financial choice but with Orange their ethics need considering.







or not

nodubmanshouts wrote:Do you need to access a corporate intranet infrastructure?

Yes - Blackberry

No - iPhone.

Everything else is crap. You don't need to take my word for it... go buy one, regret it, then spend the next 2 years of life trying to justify the purchase to your friends and neighbors. Droid owners are just embarrasinfg.

everything he said, but he missed out one important bit:

"then spend the next 2 years of life trying to justify the purchase to your friends and neighbors while pissing about constantly with your new toy...."



seriously though, had my iphone 3g for just less than 18 months (upgrade soon! yusss!!) and i have no idea how i lived without it. it's a great phone, a handy email & web browser and a source of infinite gadget geekdom

me = fanboi

I've seen the iPhone and I'm not impressed.

I has a Nokia 5800. Free sat-nav, connects to wifi, Opera Mobile is available for it, you're not tied into Apple's "exclusive" shit-store. And it was free with my contract renewal.

markfiend wrote:I've seen the iPhone and I'm not impressed.

I has a Nokia 5800. Free sat-nav, connects to wifi, Opera Mobile is available for it, you're not tied into Apple's "exclusive" shit-store. And it was free with my contract renewal.

all of what you say is true but i've yet to see a smart phone that is as FUN to use as the iphone.

it might not be technically as good as some of the others (although i'd argue with that) but the responsiveness and interactivity the iphone os gives makes it very rewarding & satisfying to use

Fair enough. Different strokes for different folks, as always.

EvilBastard wrote:Options:
1. Blackberry, which personally I like (i's got the Curve), although the company pays for it, extremely reliable, computer-in-your-pocket, good for lots of lovely apps (GoogleMaps, frinstance) that they don't charge you for.

2. Apple's latest incarnation of Steve Jobs' ShitInAShinyWhiteBox. Join the emo kids as they wear down their fingerprints on a phone the battery of which has the half-live of a mayfly with a hacking cough and a screen more fragile than a gnat's hymen.

No contest as far as I am concerned - but I would agree with Senor Lazarus about the Nokia. The Finns provide my personal phone-of-choice, and my pocket currently cradles the delighfully slim n'sexy 7510.

And here's 5 more reasons why you shouldn't go anywhere near an Apple product without the protection of 14 saints, a gross of rosaries, and enough holy water to float a battleship

Personally, I would go for a Blackberry. But lazarus is right, you're really paying more for the brand name. Knock offs are just as good from what I hear.

markfiend wrote:I've seen the iPhone and I'm not impressed.

I has a Nokia 5800. Free sat-nav, connects to wifi, Opera Mobile is available for it, you're not tied into Apple's "exclusive" shit-store. And it was free with my contract renewal.

Me too! Avoid T-Mobile though, they're annoyingly unreliable.

Damn, I picked my phone, an LG something because it was purple and looked nice! Not really up to speed with applications and such...

Thought this was going to be a serious discussion on the subject of schizophrenia.






No I didn't.

timsinister wrote:

markfiend wrote:I've seen the iPhone and I'm not impressed.

I has a Nokia 5800. Free sat-nav, connects to wifi, Opera Mobile is available for it, you're not tied into Apple's "exclusive" shit-store. And it was free with my contract renewal.

Me too! Avoid T-Mobile though, they're annoyingly unreliable.

Oh yes, I spotted your 5800 at Eureka Machines.

I'm on Orange. It's a long story.

Quiff Boy wrote:


seriously though, had my iphone 3g for just less than 18 months (upgrade soon! yusss!!) and i have no idea how i lived without it. it's a great phone, a handy email & web browser and a source of infinite gadget geekdom

me = fanboi

And you can make balloon models with it

I'm on Orange. It's a long story.

She says get off, coz she's trying to save the SubCulture...

iPhone all the way!

I've seen people using Blackberries and they're old fashioned and unpractical (not to mention boring). iPhones are fast, can do everything you'd imagine to want them to do (because someone'll have thought up an app) (and obviously cool ). They're super sturdy machines, and especially the 3GS has pretty much everything on it.

Go for it, you know you want one

weebleswobble wrote:Thought this was going to be a serious discussion...

Yeah, cuz there's a lot of those in these parts.

nodubmanshouts wrote:

I'm on Orange. It's a long story.

She says get off, coz she's trying to save the SubCulture...

am on orange too. they do my broadband for almost nowt cos of my contract.

the choice is between the two phones, depends what they cna offer me really

Go for an Ipad (a woman did not have a say in naming that) & have a fone & pooter in one.
Albeit, Dom Jolly sized.

it's okay to say pad these days, soon we'll be able to say flaps without raising a blush

i wish i could have the ipads for my class. for the tinies, it would be ideal.