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What should I get?

Looking at:

HTC Desire HD
Nokia N8
Ericsson Xperia arc

Any ideas?

No I dont want an Iphone, too expensive and offers the same as the above.
Looking at around £25 a month, orange, free handset.
 
What should I get?

Looking at:

HTC Desire HD
Nokia N8
Ericsson Xperia arc

Any ideas?

No I dont want an Iphone, too expensive and offers the same as the above.
Looking at around £25 a month, orange, free handset.

I can heartily recommend the Desire HD, had mine for a week and it's an amazing piece of kit. I was going to get a Galaxy S after seeing my mate's, but the Desire HD is a superior phone in just about every way. Arguably the best phone on the market for now. Yes- it's better than the iPhone 4.

You most likely won't get one for 25 quid a month with free handset direct from Orange though, you'll have to go through a third party like I did. 20 quid a month, 300 mins, unlimited texts and 500MB internet.

Battery life isn't great if you use it heavily, but the battery is easily replaceable in seconds and spare ones are available on eBay. There's custom roms which improve battery life amongst other things.
 
Think its possible to get the HTC cheaper than this, or with better internet? maybe if i threaten to leave orange after the 5 years of service?

200mins
Unlimited texts
250MB internet
£20.00p/mth
 
What should I get?

Looking at

HTC Desire HD
Nokia N8
Ericsson Xperia arc

Any ideas?

No I dont want an Iphone, too expensive and offers the same as the above.
Looking at around £25 a month, orange, free handset.

I'm happy with my HTC.
But you're surely better off looking at Reevoo. Rather than asking a few sad twats on here.

And yes, that includes me


You'd get a large representative proportion of views.
Rather than twelve daft knackers' experiences, good or bad :lol:
http://www.reevoo.com/browse/product_type/mobile-phones
 
What should I get?

Looking at:

HTC Desire HD
Nokia N8
Ericsson Xperia arc

Any ideas?

No I dont want an Iphone, too expensive and offers the same as the above.
Looking at around £25 a month, orange, free handset.

You could use the search function - that range of options has been discussed to death. For me, it'd be either of the first two, depending on how much I wanted a bigger screen/Android (=HTC), compared to far better battery life/a superb camera/free onboard satnav/an FM transmitter/ a more convenient form factor/HDMI out/the ability to plug in USB devices (eg. flash/hard drives)(=Nokia).

If the latter, don't be put off by comments about its user interface - it's fine already, and will be drastically updated in the next few months when the Symbian PR2.0 and PR3.0 updates come out (for free).

In other words, it comes down to how important a larger/higher res screen is, against the other things I listed. The overall user experience will be about the same.

Both are fine phones though, and both are better buys than an iThing.
 
I've had the Desire HD for 3 weeks now and it is a class phone. Battery takes a little while to get to full capacity, but no regrets over getting this phone.
 
What makes it better mate?

Bigger screen, a more open software platform, fully functioning Bluetooth, FM radio, built in satnav apps with cached maps, Micro SD card slot, user replaceable battery, much cheaper to buy, 8Mp camera with dual flash.

Oh, and Angry Birds is free on Android. :cool:

I've nothing against the iPhone 4 apart from its tw*t factor and it's hideous price tag, but the Desire HD can do anything the iPhone 4 can do and more, and it's much cheaper.

Even the Nokia N8 has much better hardware than the iPhone 4, and they're very reasonably priced. The only drawback is the current UI.
 
Even the Nokia N8 has much better hardware than the iPhone 4, and they're very reasonably priced. The only drawback is the current UI.

..which gets revamped in a few weeks. And I wish that wasn't the case (I just found out) as I'd only just got my head around leaving Symbian for good, and now it's back on the table again :roll: :lol:
 
..which gets revamped in a few weeks. And I wish that wasn't the case (I just found out) as I'd only just got my head around leaving Symbian for good, and now it's back on the table again :roll: :lol:

:lol:

I recommended the N8 to my daughter (no pics) and had a chance to mess around with it when she got it. It's a tremendous piece of hardware, but the current UI is not very pleasant to use on a capacitive touchscreen IMO.

With the revamp I hope they really go to town on it, the phone deserves a first class UI. I've already got my Desire HD and don't regret it one bit, but maybe my next phone will be another Nokia if the UI equals Android's. Nokia phones always seem like they won't break easily, and the N8 is no exception.
 
Had a look at one of those sony ericsson play's today, looked class

I don't know anything about that model, but their Xperia X10 looked class as well, and was a disappointment. Way behind the Samsung Galaxy S and Desire HD in reviews. Check reviews very carefully before being tempted. SE have made some canny phones, but one or two stinkers as well.
 
I don't know anything about that model, but their Xperia X10 looked class as well, and was a disappointment. Way behind the Samsung Galaxy S and Desire HD in reviews. Check reviews very carefully before being tempted. SE have made some canny phones, but one or two stinkers as well.
Dont get me wrong, I'm not a fan of sony ericsson and never have been, but the play's like a psp that doubles up as a touch screen phone, looked like a fun bit of kit, I wasn't thinking of getting one or owt.
 
Ericsson Xperia Arc looks canny compared to others :cool:
 
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