Best PAYG with voice recorder??

urk

Hi - would anyone suggest the ideal PAYG phone for a fairly low user - mostly texts, but who would like phone to have good voice recorder integral to it e.g for use in lectures, notes making, so decent sensitivity and time length for recordings.

With thanks in advance for any ideas

Urk

Babboon

My Nokia 6680 will only record up to 1 minute at a time despite having 1 Gb memory card to record on so I'd probably avoid getting a Nokia. Having looked at some of their other phones which I was tempted to get like the N80 or E61, they will only do 1 minute each as well

Motorola seems to be also poor with the V3i only doing 1 minute max as well,.

Had thought a Sony Ericsson might be an answer, here is what GSM arena had to say about the sound recorder on the K750i & W810i respectively:

"The sound recorder built in the phone is elementary. As soon as you select its entry in the menu, it starts to record. The only option you have left after the recording has been accomplished is to save the result. The recorder is not very sensitive. Its records are barely heard in the loud speaker. They come out in a much higher quality, when performed through the ear-phones. Unfortunately, the built-in MP3 player does not recognize the records made with the sound recorder. As a consequence, functions like stop, forward or skip remain unused. You can only play the record, stop it and then play it once again from its very beginning. The duration of the record seems to be limited by the capacity of the unoccupied memory only. I think I did not manage to reach the memory limits, but I cannot be sure for the phone did not display how much time I had left."

"Sony Ericsson W810 has a voice recorder, which can start recording even in the middle of an ongoing call. The opposite side is alerted of recording process by a beep sound every 20 seconds. Record duration is only limited by the free memory space available in the memory card. Sound is stored in AMR format and its quality is rather average."

I think a Samsung like the D520, D800 or E900 might possibly be the answer as they will record up to 1 hour at a time but I'm not sure what the sound quality is like.

I'd probably be choosing between the Sony's or the Samsung's. The K750i should be buyable for around £130 these days & D520 is around £160.

Stompa

FWIW I've just got a K750i and the quality of the recorded sound is extremely poor. The longest I've tried recording for is 1.5 hours.