what phone?

[RabbieBurns]

Ive held back for about the last however many years from getting a decent phone coz I used to lose them so much. I think now might be the time to get one and catch up with a few generations. Im not sure what I want to get, but heres what I want it to do:

 

• Be not an iphone
  
• Run slingplayer over wifi and cellular network
  
• access the internet so I can check email / facebook quite easy over wifi and cellular
  
• Make phonecalls
  
• Send Texts
  

 

Have they invented one that makes a cup of tea yet?

 

If you can give me ideas of handsets, I can look into either getting a phone here or from the UK depending on tarrifs and contacts etc....

[rocknrollstar]

I'd check out

Deal Summary

 

Wifi, GPS, GPRS, free internet, free email, free texts, 200mins, unlimited calls to other 3 users, skype, £20 month.

 

Internet usage is actually limited to 1gb a month, but haven't really come close to going over that, mainly because of the wifi that can be used at home/school.

 

Bad point is that the headphone is 2.5mm, not the standard 3.5mm, but you can get an adaptor for 99p on ebay. Also get an 8gb miniSD card, cheap enough.

[Sylv3r]

The Blackberry Bold will do everything your after easy to access Facebook using the blackberry app. Will be around £35 - £45 per month with unlimted data for an 18 month contract.

[reggiep]

+1 for the Nokia E71 on three.

 

I have run slingplayer on mine in the past and is great for reading and typing up emails.

[RabbieBurns]

they had the N71 on display over here at the weekend, is that a similar model to the E71?

 

Looked pretty decent, although the show girls could have shown me a lump of shit and still had me admiring it.

 

Im probably better not buying a phone on contract out here not knowing how long im gonna be able to be about, unless I can jsut buy it outright..

[plexer]

N97 I reckon

[jamesb]

You might want to look at the N85, its a phone rather than a smartphone but does come with a set of video cables which you can use to connect it up to a tv. It'll run slingplayer, its fine for internet so long as you're happy with using a phone keypad rather than some undersized qwerty keyboard, makes phone calls and sends texts happily.

[RabbieBurns]

It was an n97 she had, i shoulda took it and ran

 

http://img.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/nokia/nokia-n97-00.jpg

 

my problem is losing them.. which is why i try to keep my phone seperarate from anything else... but Ive just got myselft a mp3 player that can go on the internet, dependant on wifi networtks..

 

im worried that with a $400 phone, I would just lost it int the pub..