Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

silvercar

If you want cheap and easy to use and good pictures, I've got the Sony Ericson K770i. It was a hand-me-down when the kids needed, as only kids do, to have Blackberrys.

Beauty is it acts like a proper camera, just turn the phone sideways, slide the lens cap back and its a camera. Transfer is easy. Either bluetooth (and you can get your computer a bluetooth dongle to plug into a USB port for less than a fiver on ebay) or plug the lead in or email it. (Don't know how that works, but it asks if you want to send by email and it does it, even though there is no internet on the phone). Picture quality is good enough - 3meg and Sony quality.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

If you want cheap and easy to use and good pictures, I've got the Sony Ericson K770i. It was a hand-me-down when the kids needed, as only kids do, to have Blackberrys.

Beauty is it acts like a proper camera, just turn the phone sideways, slide the lens cap back and its a camera. Transfer is easy. Either bluetooth (and you can get your computer a bluetooth dongle to plug into a USB port for less than a fiver on ebay) or plug the lead in or email it. (Don't know how that works, but it asks if you want to send by email and it does it, even though there is no internet on the phone). Picture quality is good enough - 3meg and Sony quality.

Just looked at those on ebay, seem affordable enough. But I don't understand phones/networks/unlocking etc... so I need to do more 'finding out' stuff before I can choose one... in fact, I didn't choose the last one. Somebody had to do it for me as I had no idea what the adverts meant. Then I got a SIM, but I'd never seen a SIM before and had no idea what to do with it ... after an hour or so, I phoned the helpline to ask them how to put it in.

Had a similar thing with the SIM in my first 'dongle', it was a PCMCIA card (like a fat credit card) and there was a SIM. I pressed something and a bit popped out, so I put the SIM in there. And I was surfing the internet.

Thing was, I was on a pirate signal - I'd actually stuck the SIM into the pop out aerial slot

Now, you might laugh - but remember I've been away in a poor, rural area, cut off from contact with most people for years

Somebody in the States offered to send me their blackberry, originally for free but I couldn't accept that, then the price became $100. So, then we were trying to work out if it will actually work if she sends it to me. Current situation is: not seen her online for a day or so and a day ago we were kind of thinking it might just work, but neither of us actually knew/understood enough to definitely 'know'. She got on cam, with a few people watching her show the back of it - and everybody agreed it's got a SIM card, but she'd never heard of one of those. So, maybe, I might get that.... but I think it'll end up 'too much trouble' with both of us being unsure.

silvercar

Step one in the phone malarky is to work out what networks have decent reception where you are living.

Step two is to find the phone you want either on the network you have chosen or unlocked (which means any network).

(I would say you don't want a blackberry from the states because chances are it will be locked to an American network. You can get them unlocked at market stalls etc but that invalidates any warranty and blackberry would charge you a fortune to repair it. There is a chance it would be unlocked but doubtful.) Add to that you end up transferring tons of data on a blackberry, so its either a contract or its paying out for data by the meg. Don't think you want a blackberry at all. blackberry is for serious volumes of work on a tiny screen or for those who cannot survive without blackberry messenger 24/7.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Step one in the phone malarky is to work out what networks have decent reception where you are living.

Step two is to find the phone you want either on the network you have chosen or unlocked (which means any network).

(I would say you don't want a blackberry from the states because chances are it will be locked to an American network. You can get them unlocked at market stalls etc but that invalidates any warranty and blackberry would charge you a fortune to repair it. There is a chance it would be unlocked but doubtful.) Add to that you end up transferring tons of data on a blackberry, so its either a contract or its paying out for data by the meg. Don't think you want a blackberry at all. blackberry is for serious volumes of work on a tiny screen or for those who cannot survive without blackberry messenger 24/7.

Cheers.

That made things a bit clearer.

Ellie2758

Great. Despite starving her for 24 hours the dog is still doing green poos and now there is a bit of blood in it as well :eek:

Sorry to lower the tone so early in the day.....................:(

SingleSue

I'm at that stage again of thinking that things might, just might, have settled down enough (our type of settled, probably still quite eek to others) to go back into work and have started applying again (term based only as the problems still exist with child carers during school holidays).

This is not the first time and I doubt it will be the last either...everytime I think things are settling down and I can get on with my working life, one of the boys gets ill/has problems and all hell lets loose once more!

Fingers crossed things stay settled eh?

carolt

silvercar wrote: »

Step one in the phone malarky is to work out what networks have decent reception where you are living.

Step two is to find the phone you want either on the network you have chosen or unlocked (which means any network).

(I would say you don't want a blackberry from the states because chances are it will be locked to an American network. You can get them unlocked at market stalls etc but that invalidates any warranty and blackberry would charge you a fortune to repair it. There is a chance it would be unlocked but doubtful.) Add to that you end up transferring tons of data on a blackberry, so its either a contract or its paying out for data by the meg. Don't think you want a blackberry at all. blackberry is for serious volumes of work on a tiny screen or for those who cannot survive without blackberry messenger 24/7.

Virgin have a blackberry for £12/month contract at the moment - obviously includes your minutes. Once contract over, you still keep the phone (unless you fancy upgrading), so probably cheaper than paying £100, plus your £8/month or whatever you quoted.

lemonjelly

Ellie2758 wrote: »

Great. Despite starving her for 24 hours the dog is still doing green poos and now there is a bit of blood in it as well :eek:

Sorry to lower the tone so early in the day.....................:(

That's put me right off my elevenses!:D

michaels

Another vote for the cybershots - I had the k750i and despite only being 2mp the autofocus and flash put it in a league above most camera phones. I've got an unlocked one I could probably just send it to you. Otherwise I am currently trying to decide whether to keep my N95 which is 3 years old but still does everything (5mp camera, carl zeiss lens) or change to something newer but no doubt less good but with android as there are many more applications available.

silvercar wrote: »

If you want cheap and easy to use and good pictures, I've got the Sony Ericson K770i. It was a hand-me-down when the kids needed, as only kids do, to have Blackberrys.

Beauty is it acts like a proper camera, just turn the phone sideways, slide the lens cap back and its a camera. Transfer is easy. Either bluetooth (and you can get your computer a bluetooth dongle to plug into a USB port for less than a fiver on ebay) or plug the lead in or email it. (Don't know how that works, but it asks if you want to send by email and it does it, even though there is no internet on the phone). Picture quality is good enough - 3meg and Sony quality.

carolt

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've seen a couple of cameraphones, never used one. I don't really know how they work.... I don't have a phone contract, so I'd need to find out how it all works on that side of things too.

For my phone I pay a monthly £8 or so for the "line rental", then 8p/minute if I make a call and 8p/text if I send one. Usually my bill for using it's under 20p/month.

You're being done.

Line rental for a PAYG?

Shows how old your phone is - no companies now charge line rental at all on PAYG, AFAIK.

eg Virgin cheapest contract is £8.50/month, includes 100 minutes - only 30p/month more than you pay now, but you get nice shiny new phone included (not top-of-the-range, but cameraphone, definitely).

BTW, I don't work for Virgin! Just have a Virgin mobile myself, and was researching yesterday for a friend who's just moved back to UK and has no internet access yet.