Help with a phone for a teenager £200 budget

HappyMJ

splashproof wrote: »

She would like BBM, but its not critical, I think she's aware of the apps that allow BBM access from other phones.

Really, what apps are they then considering that is the selling point of the phone?

splashproof

HappyMJ wrote: »

Really, what apps are they then considering that is the selling point of the phone?

http://www.aplikasiandroid.info/2011/07/bbm-for-android-with-whatsapp-aplikasi.html

madmonkey01

xperia x10 or x8, you can get them for £150-200 easily as good as iphones and the like.

splashproof

Xperia were quickly dropped due to the battery life (I've never known a phone so bad with battery drain), the Samsung Ace was not a bad price providing you wanted to be on the 3 network (like many of these cheap deals at present, they're linked to 3 ). The Orange San Francisco was side stepped because A: The Camera (really bad), B: Unlocking and loading android 2.2 (teenage girls have better things to do then geek-spot). The HTC Cha Cha (as mentioned by another poster) was not a design winning phone and more like carrying around a house brick.


That left the HTC Wildfire with the added bonus Carphone Warehouse have just secured 2000 of them for £119 sim free unlocked. I asked if she noticed the lower processor speed and screen resolution. She looked at me and said "Yeah, it slows my text ability down by 0.00003 microseconds".

Perhaps teenagers have a more realistic and practical (less geek orientated) outlook on technology


Thanks for all the advice and pointers, it made choosing one a lot easier

s4lvatore

splashproof wrote: »

http://www.aplikasiandroid.info/2011/07/bbm-for-android-with-whatsapp-aplikasi.html

That isn' bbm. Its whatsapp. Different all together.

Whatsapp will run on berrys though, they have an app for bb, but won't be able to receive proprietry bbm meesages.

splashproof

s4lvatore wrote: »

That isn' bbm. Its whatsapp. Different all together.

Whatsapp will run on berrys though, they have an app for bb, but won't be able to receive proprietry bbm meesages.

She prefers the whatsapp. )

baywood_2

I have been looking at the samsung galaxy pro as it has qwerty and touch screen, but have got to get into town to have a look in 3 store , any thoughts on it would be appreciated. but this is in this budget range

MorrisonsEmployee

splashproof wrote: »

She's thinking HTC Cha Cha or HTC Wildfire.

She currently has a Blackberry curve, so likes the keyboard ( and bbm ).

Ideas, things to look our for etc.


Thanks in advance

If you use cashback sites then Quidco are offering £1oo cashback for the HTC Cha Cha on O2 - http://www.quidco.com/user/185741/84486/o2-paym-handset-contracts

nickj_2

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or her best friend will get the latest all singing and all dancing phone with the all new must have features and then suddenly that £200 isn't quite so good and will need replacing , once you get on the technology treadmill you can kiss goodbye to your cash if you try to keep up

s4lvatore

splashproof wrote: »

She prefers the whatsapp. )

Good to know that. So as BBM is an irrelevence then any android phone will do as they run WhatsApp.

Just get her to go into all the shops in town, play with all the phones and that way she can make her own mind up.

As you say she isn't a techno geek and once she has seen them all in action she will know herself which one she wants.