been offer the following as upgrades, either the samsung E700 or the nokia 6600. anyone got or heard anything about these? recommendations please

Nokia 6600 is probably the hardest most non-user intuative Nokia ever made?

i've one of those Samsung E700, and quite like it. all me other phones have been Nokia's and have proven quite robust etc (they get shoved in me pocket, in me bag, on the car floor, in pints of Stella.....), so i was a bit worried about the Samsung's strength etc, but after 6 months it's still looking and working spot on!

there are one or two little quirks on it, but once you get used to using it, it is fine and easy to use. got a good little camera on it too.......... :eek: (and you can ring on it - novelty eh!!)

If you are with Vodafone they are offering the updated E710 / E715 which has video stuff on it too i think........ might be worth haggling for instead!

HTH

Gilly

Samsung is more of a 'fun' phone, where as Nokia is more towards business..

Batt life willl be better on the Nokia, depends what you want out of a phone..

What about Sony Erricson T610 or 630??

I currently have a Nokia 6100 which is good, but the screen resolution and the ringtone quality is not a patch on Sony/Eric or Samsung phones...

cheers

Dazz

Skip the T630. It's a pile of poo. Unless you like the feature that it doesn't notify you of any missed calls until you press a button to remove the screensaver.

I`ve just aquired a P900.......

Spot on :thumbsup:

Skip the T630. It's a pile of poo. Unless you like the feature that it doesn't notify you of any missed calls until you press a button to remove the screensaver.

Really? That's interesting I was looking at getting on of these. My alternative was a Nokia 6230 but it's buttons are a bit crappy/plasticky.

Avoid the SE T610 as well - looks nice, great display, but bit of a cheap keypad and the texting is a pain compared to Nokias...

I`ve just aquired a P900.......

Spot on :thumbsup:

Phew and scary...me too.

Aye. Bit daunting at first.

If you want some software - gimme a shout - i`m working through whats pap and whats not

Having previously always owned Nokias, I now have an SE T610 which is brilliant!

I have had Nokia's and motorola's i have currently have a Samsung V200. A great phone easy to use great menu's so if i was doing an upgrade i would get another samsung they also have great colour screens on them.

Really? That's interesting I was looking at getting on of these. My alternative was a Nokia 6230 but it's buttons are a bit crappy/plasticky.

Dave, you're welcome to try mine for a week. As long as you don't throw it against the wall out of frustration I don't mind

I would love to get hold of a P900 - but I have not had my phone long enough to warrant an upgrade - so I would have to buy outright,and trying to get one from eBay is almost impossible without some scumbag trying to scam you into buying one via the "secure western union".

Bought an Orange SPV e100 of eBay recently - was listed as having "minor scratches" which were "difficult to see" - when I got the phone looked like it has been shot by an Uzi - all scratches and paint missing - when I folllowed it up the guy said it was what he would call minor! - what can you do.

But tonight I notice he is selling another - using the same photo(which bears no resemblence to the one he sold me) and stating that he was relisting the item due to the previous buyer using a stolen credit card!! - that previous buyer is ME - and you dont have to be a rocket scientist to find that out.

I am very proud to have a 100% positive feedback and am livid - trouble is I don't know what I can do about it - any ideas ???

Leave negative feedback and report him to ebay.

Skip the T630. It's a pile of poo. Unless you like the feature that it doesn't notify you of any missed calls until you press a button to remove the screensaver.

Isn't that true of most phones with a colour screen? It's mainly because you can't see the display at all without the backlight.

Avoid the SE T610 as well - looks nice, great display, but bit of a cheap keypad and the texting is a pain compared to Nokias...

Believe me, it's a huge improvement on previous Ericssons and very nearly as good as a Nokia. On old Ericssons it was very easy to tap at the keypad faster than the phone could display the characters.

I've had a T610 for just over a week. I like it a lot, except for the problem mentioned by Quinten. I can't imagine it lasting as long as my old Ericsson R520m though. That's made of a solid block of metal and has survived several drops onto hard floors without so much as a scratch.

My old man has a T630 and quite likes it - and he came from a Nokia background

I suppose it depends what you want out of the phone - true, the screensaver makes it a little difficult to see if you have missed calls.

Regarding SMS - I'm not a text addict, so can't even attempt to break the 10cps texting speed

He does prefer it to his Nokia. He also likes the phonebook management. You have a contact name and then different numbers for that contact. It's very close to contact management in Outlook where you have mobile, home, fax, email, etc all under one "name". I'm sure you can do that with recent Nokias, but he never sussed it out.

The T630 probably has more gadgets, but I think it looks sexy but understated at the same time. Not one of those flashy phones that reminds you of a fairground ride where you're already sick by the time you've finished with it :P

JMTPW.

im with o2and am happy tostay with themso i have a limited selection of phones too choose from

The problem with Nokia's are that there screen display and sound quality is not as good as from the likes of Samsung and SE.

The area where Nokia score is ease of use and battery life.. The SE T610 my mate has got is in his words the best phone he has owned by far.. Its got everthing he needs, bluetooth IR ... GPRS etc... this might not be the case if he wanted a all flashing changable cover phone...

each to there own..

My contract is up in 2 months so I will be looking at either a Samsung E700

or a SE T630/610 ... I would not touch a Motorola ...

anyway cheers

Dazz

We have 2 geostationary satelites that do our communications for us so was thinking of ditching the mobile. Bless the military lol !

I've got a T630 just changed from nokia 6610, very happy with it apart from one small problem... I've got a dual sim card holder in it and when ya take the sim out of a sony ericcson phone all the text messages saved on the phone (yes the phone not the sim) get deleted, which is utter utter pap.... apart from this a good phone and i think it looks quite nice, esp. the white one... got a whold iMAC thang goin on. Couple of mates got that sammy E700 phone and I was quite impressed with that, some good phones coming out soon tho....they change so god damn quick !

Updated from a T610 to a Z600 (clamshell T630ish), and it's very good, never liked Samsung's menu system and despise Nokia's after getting through 12 in a year...... My t610 never failed me (nor did any of my Ericsson phone's prior to that). Brother has the E700 and he likes his (bit of a girl phone if you ask me though )

Oh the other benefit of the Z600 is I can get 115kbps via GPRS out of it..... Makes a nice backup for my ISDN (cant get BB). Plus work pay for the data I use so it's 'cheap' internet when I'm out and about (either on my iPaq or Laptop)

Well it's arrived

Now the small matter of RTFM; only 175 fine print pages.

I would stay away from sony ericsson... i "upgraded" from a Nokia 7250 to a Z600.. and the Z600 has actually put me off txting people coz its such a pain.. it crashes more times in 1 week than all my nokias put together ever have.. its good in concept, nice features.. but the software and userfriendlyness still sucks!.

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