Mobile phones

I use the moto razr, works fine for me. Loads of people rave on about the samsung slidy phone (d500 or 600, I think its called). Probably not a bad idea to go to somewhere like carphone warehouse to have a look/feel of a range of phones before putting money down. My carphone warehouse branch were courteous,knowledgeable & honest enough. Be careful with some of these deals where they offer cashback after 6/9/12 months, as you have to send in bills etc within very tight timescale windows, which can be a real pain.
matt.

Mate of mine's just had one of these Click

Good cameraphone (2mp/autofocus/flash) but it does the Walkman (512mb card inc) thing too if you do want it. Not a bad sound and outputs to 3.5mm headphone jack via an adapter which is pretty neat.

For what it's worth, anyone moving from a Nokia to anything else will usually find that the mental migration is vastly harder and more painful than they ever expected in their worst nightmares. Be very sure that you value what a non-Nokia phone may give you before committing. Nokia have a commanding lead in all aspects of human interface design and display, all others are merely average by comparison. Motorola are particularly disappointing because all other aspects of their industrial design and implementation are very good (the hinge on the Pebl excepted), yet they feel like an mid-70s Atari slot machine to use.

One alternative you may want to consider is moving to a smartphone. I've got an Orange SPV500 which is pretty small and works fine as a normal phone. However it syncs perfectly to Outlook so whenever I've got my phone with me I've also got my diary and full contacts list. Saves carrying round a separate PDA. It'll do the camera and MP3 player bit too, although I don't really use.

The only compromise is that it is a little 'sluggish' compared to a normal phone and every once in while, maybe every few weeks or couple of months, it crashes or freezes meaning I have to take the battery off and restart it. You'd probably want to have a play with one in a real shop to check you could get on with it.

I wouldn't go back to a normal phone, being able to pop appointments and reminders in the diary while out and about and know that they'll back up to the home PC is really useful.

HTH
Phil

Nokia also make smartphones. N70

Orange

hadn't seen the Nokia smartphones. If you go this way do make sure you check out that they are sufficiently compatible with outlook (or whatever other contacts/diary you use). My wife had a palm a few years ago and although it claimed to sync with outlook it didn't fully do this - so for instance multi day appointments such as 'brother staying for the weekend' would get split into a number of one-day appointments meaning that you couldn't then edit them as one item when they'd been synced back with the main pc

Phil

quote:

Originally posted by Mark Ellis-Jones:
Motorola are particularly disappointing because all other aspects of their industrial design and implementation are very good (the hinge on the Pebl excepted), yet they feel like an mid-70s Atari slot machine to use.

That makes sense I guess. Love my little Motorola V500 and have recently purchased an Atari 'woody' 2600 system for old skool gaming