Which Phone HTC Hero or N97

LeeSouthEast

I just did the math on the mobilephonesdirect offer - and it's pretty poor.

Assuming you can haggle a decent SIM Only deal for around £15 a month, and buy the handset SIM free from Amazon for around £450 (typically £50 off list price), or get equivalent cashback from somewhere (or if you're really savvy, buy it on your AMEX Platinum cashback card as well lol), then you'll spend out nearly £160 more than doing it yourself...

Blakey1982

oh !!!!!! - didnt really want to spend that. You think there will be some better deals around in the next couple of weeks for the N900??

For example - free handset, 500mb data, texts and some calls??

or are deals like this primarily for older phones??

Martyn_Day

get a blackberry 9700

butterbeanmash

I'd avoid Nokia smartphones altogether if I were you. The n97 is a beta model currently being tested in the real world (and mine is, as many others have said here and elsewhere, the worst phone I've ever owned) and I'd be VERY surprised if the n900 is anything like a finished model. The HTC will be an established, professional and accomplished piece of kit (my other phone is a p3600). If I had the chance I'd trade my n97 for a Hero today.

LeeSouthEast

To be fair to the N900 (but not to Nokia per se!) the review models have fared very, very highly. The N97 was a dire life beta test.

epz_2

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

I just did the math on the mobilephonesdirect offer - and it's pretty poor.

Assuming you can haggle a decent SIM Only deal for around £15 a month, and buy the handset SIM free from Amazon for around £450 (typically £50 off list price), or get equivalent cashback from somewhere (or if you're really savvy, buy it on your AMEX Platinum cashback card as well lol), then you'll spend out nearly £160 more than doing it yourself...

Agreed, the tmobile deal gave you a £397 phone and 150mins/txts for 18 months or free for £30 a month with more mins/data but i cant find anyone else selling them

branwen_2

(First post)
Just thought I would point out that Orange's unlimited internet is pretty useless, 500 mb gets you nowhere with a phone that does full web browsing.

I've got the hero on t-mob, and I love it. However, i'm pretty techy, and I forgive it a lot of bugs. If your not willing to fiddle with it fairly compulsively, then it may not be for you.

However it is a sweet phone

rash.m2k

N900 for me definitley. WM is is a bit rubbish IMO.

Maemo is as close to linux as you can get for a mobile device - and having used the N810/N800/N770 before and used a lot of the functionaliity and also tweaked with the internals such as modifying this bootleader menu (because unlike WM its mostly open) and the fact thats its the same as my desktop Linux I'm gonna get it.

HOWEVER those people thinking Maemo is going to be rough - and won't have many apps are totally wrong.

The N800/N810 had hundreds of apps - an not the pointless kind which are useful for 60 seconds and then you forget about them! But proper apps - full skype, full bittorrent, full IM application, plenty of games, office apps.

The only thing lacking is a decent GPS application which there is now with Nokia maps (it's decent but it ain't no tomtom!).

N900 vs HD2 = N900 for me.

movilogo

From this site, http://www.dontbuyn97.com/, HTC seems to be a better bet

I don't have N97 but I use 5800 XM which has very similar software compared with N97 and it is quite buggy!

Have a look on both Nokia and HTC forum and see which one users more complaint about. Then take a decision.

If you are not a power user (i.e. don't try to fiddle too much with 3rd party apps), then probably N97 will be ok for you. Otherwise, stay away from N97.

Don't think N900 will be any better. If you really want N900, wait till Nokia upgrades their firmware few times.

LeeSouthEast

The N97 runs Symbian. The N900 runs Linux.

You cannot compare them.