orange rio £24.99 (looks like blackberry)

MorrisonsEmployee

If you go via Quidco when buying this phone from Orange you get £5 cashback making the phone even more of a bargain!

d123

Stylehutz wrote: »

Bit of a technophobe and would be interested in this sort of phone as it looks similar to a blackberry. I am looking for a blackberry sort of phone but do not want to pay blackberry costs

Can anyone tell me whether you would be able to use this phone and connect with a wifi connection in wifi hotspots like macdonalds etc.

Thanks in advance

This phone has no wifi (in fact, it doesn't even have 3G).

This phone isn't for anyone wanting to use it for any sort of Internet use, it only has a (slow) 2G connection available.

neil40

Also available is the much spoken about San Fransisco for £69.99 plus £10 top up.This phone also has an excellent reputation.

Neil

clairibel

babyfox3461 wrote: »

Have just brought one from Argos today, you have to pay the extra £10 for credit, but you do also get the extra £10 added on aswell.

Thanks for letting me know, quite a good offer then

s.morris

Bought this for my daughter not long ago - it's a nice little phone. No good for people with big fingers though!

matt987106

neil40 wrote: »

Also available is the much spoken about San Fransisco for £69.99 plus £10 top up.This phone also has an excellent reputation.

Neil

i have the SF, very nice phone, better than the iphone ( yes i have both )

My daughter has the rio, also a very nice phone, ideal for 30 quid

lawarcbur

d123 wrote: »

This phone has no wifi (in fact, it doesn't even have 3G).

This phone isn't for anyone wanting to use it for any sort of Internet use, it only has a (slow) 2G connection available.

the phone has opera mini built in as the os that most blackberry users are now downloading for better internet, it runs of gprs & its very fast with facebook, bebo, bbc, ebay all in there bookmark also has a update site on there bookmark to download there latest os also to download youtube player & all other apps for free, also if you are on giffgaff & you have a goodybag you get unlimited internet 24 hours a day 7 days a week, so if you go through the opera mini app built in to your phone then yes the internet is fast.

clairibel

lawarcbur wrote: »

the phone has opera mini built in as the os that most blackberry users are now downloading for better internet, it runs of gprs & its very fast with facebook, bebo, bbc, ebay all in there bookmark also has a update site on there bookmark to download there latest os also to download youtube player & all other apps for free, also if you are on giffgaff & you have a goodybag you get unlimited internet 24 hours a day 7 days a week, so if you go through the opera mini app built in to your phone then yes the internet is fast.

Whats giffgaff is it a sim? or broadband package, cheers.

lawarcbur

clairibel wrote: »

Whats giffgaff is it a sim? or broadband package, cheers.

it is one of the cheapest mobile networks in uk for £10 you can get 250 mins, unlimited texts & unlimited internet (& it is unlimited no caps) free giffgaff to giffgaff calls & texts + all freephone numbers 0800 & 0500 are free all the time.
theres loads more deals they do & they call them goodybags & it is pay as you go no contracts or any tie ins.
the best for value i think.

d123

lawarcbur wrote: »

the phone has opera mini built in as the os that most blackberry users are now downloading for better internet, it runs of gprs & its very fast with facebook, bebo, bbc, ebay all in there bookmark also has a update site on there bookmark to download there latest os also to download youtube player & all other apps for free, also if you are on giffgaff & you have a goodybag you get unlimited internet 24 hours a day 7 days a week, so if you go through the opera mini app built in to your phone then yes the internet is fast.

The app cannot speed up the data connection, you are kidding yourself if you think that GPRS is fast, it's the equivalent of DIAL UP on a home connection (it's actually slower than dial up, GPRS is around 40kpbs, dial up is 56kpbs.

How many people would consider DIAL UP to be fast?

At it's slowest, 3G is between 300 and 400kbps.

I stand by my opinion, DON'T buy this phone as something to use for internet, it's going to be slow and frustrating.

The San Francisco mentioned above is a far better phone.

Just to add, OS stands for "operating system", Opera is not an OS, it's an app. The Rio does not use the same OS as the Blackberry phones.