Well, I've had my trusty (?) 6310i for over a year now and it's time to upgrade...

Whittled it down to either Nokia 6230 or the new Samsung D500.

Anyone got any experience of these?

Basically I'm not too fussed about features as long as it makes and receives calls, sends and receives text messages and has bluetooth for my headset. Ease of use is probably the most important to me. I wasn't impressed with some of the functionality of the Samsung A300 a few years back (like the limits on the ways of personalising profiles and the lack of vibrating alert for messages). Always found Nokia easy enough to get along with.

I'm staying on Orange; they've offered the 6230 for free, the Samsung would cost me

I'm a bit biast here but every time I've tried a non-nokia phone, I've gone straight back. Just sold a 6230 and it was and is a brilliant phone. Its packed with every feature under the sun, and all are easily accessed, and it also text's like a phone should (with space as 0 rather than # or *, and proper T9 dictionary). Headsets work fine with it, and as this is the first samsung with bluetooth - i wouldnt trust it really :|

Nokia for my vote

Agreed about coming back to Nokia every time after ventures out with Sony and Samsung. Nokia it is then, I suppose I can always get a D500 in a year if they turn out to be any good!

Another vote for the Nokia - I came from a Sony Erricson and have found the Nokia much more intuitive to use and much less prone to grinding to a halt Have successfully used the Bluetooth on it to talk to my laptop, but I bought a cable as it's quicker

Chris

Personally I would say the Nokia 6230, best phone I have ever had switched from a Nokia 6310i to a Siemens S55 back to Nokia with a 6230 on launch, and it has been a great phone and still is.

On the Samsung front the D500 looks nice, but heard reports on various forums that there are known problems/bugs especially with the Orange ones. Having said that I will probably pick one up in April as an upgrade to teh Wifes Sammy E700.

Would visit CPW and have a play with both and see what you think, some people think the D500 is to small.

Also would check out the Bluetooth Connectivity as it's the first Sammy to have Bluetooth.

I would go for the Nokia too. I have gone back to SE after 2 Samsungs. As good as the Samsungs were, the quality of the case was poor. The paint was flaking off after only a couple of weeks on my D410 and before that, my V200 was flaking after a couple of months. I never had a problem with paint quality on previous Nokia's or SE's.

Nokia. Nokia. Nokia.

Go for the Nokia. I went across to Sony Ericsson for my last phone and it just wasn't as intuitive. the buttons were fiddly and broke after a while.

I changed back to a nokia 6230 and it's top notch. it's got a 32mb memory card in it for storing MP3 tracks. There's video (a bit pants) and it feels very well built. You can use MP3's or recordings for your ringtone so you don't have to mess about with these bandit ringtone firms any more. The only thing I have an issue with is the battery life. Not good, but multimedia phones never have good battery life.

Looks like a 6230 will be winging its way to sunny (ahem) Maidstone then....

Cheers for your input guys

Maidstone is always sunny especially today lol

i have gone the other way! Has a Nokia and went over to Sony Erricson-much better! Never want to go back to Nokia!!!!

Nokia, my wife got a Samsung, and while it looks great and is feature packed (why she got it), she now hates it and wants a Nokia again as soon as possible.

i have gone the other way! Has a Nokia and went over to Sony Erricson-much better! Never want to go back to Nokia!!!!

Tried SE myself, didn't like them, far to fiddly and crap for text messaging, back to Nokia I went.

I've tried them all but always end up coming back to Nokia - they just always get it 'right' with the user interfaces

I've tried them all but always end up coming back to Nokia - they just always get it 'right' with the user interfaces

Dave why have you a picture of that Jewish tv commedian holding a rifle on your signature picture (Bedale or some such name?).

Maidstone is always sunny especially today lol

All I can say is I'm obviously not righteous as I got decidedly wet earlier!

Dave why have you a picture of that Jewish tv commedian holding a rifle on your signature picture (Bedale or some such name?).

Now you mention it the resemblance is quite good

PS it's Baddiel ...

Dave why have you a picture of that Jewish tv commedian holding a rifle on your signature picture (Bedale or some such name?).

:hilarius:

Dave is really gonna love you when he see's that!

I had nokia's for ages, and went to T610 and then T630. The Sony phones are great - and i have found them to be very sturdy and reliable. PLus the quality of the screen on the T630 is larger & better than the nokia.

Now ordered the D500 on orange as a replac for the T630. The one I played with in the shop was nice - plus its free and comes with 6 months half price line rental.

At the end of the day if its poo ill jisy ebay it and buy a nokia. The D500 goes for more than the nokias as it newer so its a better ebay prospect.

Its nice to have a change.

This site is usefull - actual user reviews of mobiles.

http://www.reviewcentre.com/consumer_reviews2.html

Nokia. It's just so intuitive to use.

:hilarius:

Dave is really gonna love you when he see's that!

i've been called worse

Just ordered the D500 on o2 last week. I tried a nokia but found that the phone had a few bugs in the firmware which stopped me being able to use it as a gprs modem from the pda. It was a known fault and nokia had no plans to fix it on this particular model.