Help choosing mobile phone. Must have the following...

comdw

I need to know what phones out there meet my requirements before I go searching for the best deal. So far I have the Orange SPV C500 on my list, does anyone know what other phones have all these features (or a website that has this info to compare phones):

- Bluetooth
- MP3/Music player with at least 256Mg memory or ability to upgrade the memory using a replaceable media card
- Camera
- Web browser that will read HTML pages as well as WAP/WML

Any ideas appreciated...

Wickedkitten

What about the Nokia 6630

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,58708,00.html

or the Sony Ericsson K700i?

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=gb&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp1_loader&php=php1_10139&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10139

comdw

Thanks Kitten, both worth considering. I couldn't see any mention of what media card (if any) the K700 takes.

The Nokia looks like a better bet with MMC card support, but it seems to be a special type of MMC that you need and I'm not sure these are easily available (does anyone know?).

GeoThermal

Orange SPV C500. Looking at this one myself and seems to cover your requirements.

scheming_gypsy

i've got the C500 and it's the noddies.. it won't actually play MP3 but WMA so you'll need to convert your MP3's. The good point is they're half the size of an MP3.
You also get loads of photo space. no idea how many i've got on but when i go to take a pic i've got 311 free.

The one bad point about them is the E200 took a full size SD card which slotted into the side so you could pop it in and out. The C500 uses a mini SD card which fits under your sim card so you have to take the battery out to remove the card.

If you do get a C500 then make sure you've got Nero or similar to rip your own ringtones as the standard ones are pants.

Paul_Varjak

comdw wrote:

I need to know what phones out there meet my requirements before I go searching for the best deal. So far I have the Orange SPV C500 on my list, does anyone know what other phones have all these features (or a website that has this info to compare phones):

- Bluetooth
- MP3/Music player with at least 256Mg memory or ability to upgrade the memory using a replaceable media card
- Camera
- Web browser that will read HTML pages as well as WAP/WML

Any ideas appreciated...

If you have the old OPEN ACESS PACK (not the newer Orange World Access Pack) you have unlimited internet for just £4/month with an E200 and, presumably, the newer C500 as well!

Genie

scheming_gypsy wrote:

it won't actually play MP3 but WMA so you'll need to convert your MP3's. T

Thats not true. I have a c500 I bought a few weeks ago and it happily play mp3's out of the box (using the built in windows media player). I even play divx movies using a freeware program i installed on it.

What you cannot do is use mp3's as ringtones. for that you need to connvert it to wma and then you can use it as a ringtone. I have done this and use real music as ringtones!

scheming_gypsy

me bad Genie.. did the E200 play MP3's as well or was that a case of convert? i've only ever used wma's on it.

gromituk

comdw wrote:

I couldn't see any mention of what media card (if any) the K700 takes.

Since Sony swallowed Ericsson, if it takes a card it will be Sony's proprietary Memory Stick Duo - yuck.