Beginner's advice - smart phones - help

Ponkle22

We are behind the times here - need to get a Smart phone through work, for Mr Ponkle'swork - he has been left to order it himself (within reason) on a contract. Need to use it for frequent work calls (lots), emails (lots) and some website usage. Have to use O2 as only decent coverage in his work area - though 02 are not being very helpful at all. We have no idea what sort of usage in mobile phone speak we would need for this - so I'd be grateful for some advice on what to purchase for the usage he needs.

Many thanks.

devizes18193

Its a big one that . The phones tend to be divided between touch screens ( iphone-android type ) and with keys blackberry nokia e63 etc.
Iner never used blackberrys , but had a nokia e63 , it could do email via push and worked well there was no flash , limited internet . I found it easier to type as i have huge fingers.
I've had 3 android phones in my time . They do email have sat nav misic players and much much more . Get android 2.2 or after you get flash for iplayer etc .
The down side some of the apps go after internet acces wich can be a big bill and drain the battery . Sending emails is harder for me on a touch screen .
I belive an iphone will have the same issues
They are great things but it is easy to be spolied for choice

grumbler

For sending 'lots of e-mails' I'd suggest a netbook or a tablet.

jayme1

if you're going to need it for lots of calls and emails then that sort of rules out android phones and the iphone (unless you are able to have a spare charger to keep them topped up like in the office or car)

the nokia E7 or the nokia E6 both have very good battery life, and nokia are well renowned for their call quality (esp good signal quality).
both can do email perfectly fine too.

Ponkle22

Thanks very much for your replies. Due to various reaons it HAS to be a phone. He can choose which phone but what he can't choose is the on the contract the AMOUNT of (guessing here) gigabytes (or whatever) he would need. That is a query. We have no idea how much 'usage' or 'size' to plump for.

Grateful for all replies.

grumbler

For e-mails and some general browsing he doesn't need a lot. I think usual 500Mb will be more than sufficient.

How much data is 500MB or 1GB?

At T-mobile (and Chitter Chatter) 500Mb limit applies to downloads only. General browsing is unlimited.

At giffgaff (O2) 250m+unltd+unltd cost just £10 p.m.

Cheapest smatphones are well below £100 on PAYG.

Exhortation

As much as I like my Android handset, I still don't think you can look past Blackberry when it comes to email. Tesco (who use the O2 network) do a Blackberry 9780 with 1500 minutes, 5000 texts and 1gb of data for £37.50 a month on a 24 month contract with the handset coming free. You can even get £35 cashback if you go through Topcashback.

JJ_Egan

Blackberry really built for emailing .
Android and IPhone are more power hungry multi use tools .

jje

Ponkle22

Thanks for all replies - appreciate it. :beer: