PDA with satnav £199

mcwarre

Sorry will do

garybarber

mcwarre wrote:

Trust me, I have had just about every smartphone (and every SPV). The C500 is the first one which favours well as a phone with the competition, never mind its other abilities. Far ahead of Original SPV, as the Model T is from the Focus

Agreed. I had an SPV E200 for a few months when the SPV C500 came out. After seeing a few workmates with the C500 I ditched the E200 and got one.

This is without doubt the best phone I've ever had. It does everything, and I'm sure a kitchen sink attachment will be coming soon. My battery lasts three to four days with average use, compared to the 1-2days I got out of my E200. My Fiancee has the Nokia 7610, and this beats the pants off that too.

It's smaller, has a better screen, menu navigation is much faster.

I use it for:

Calendar - reminds me of birthdays etc.
Email on the move - syncs perfectly with my NTL email account
Texting - Great interface and great way of doing predictive text.
Games - Loads available. Perfect versions of Pacman and Space Invaders for example.
SAT-NAV - I have TomTom Mobile and it's excellent. Works amazingly well on the C500's larger than average screen.
MP3 Player - With my 512MB Mini SD card I can cram several hours of music on there, and it came with a stereo headset.
Video Player - If I get bored I can always watch a film. Very easy to compress movies into divx. An entire film only takes up 100MB when suitably compressed. Again, amazingly watchable on the beautiful screen.
Mobile Internet - Go to ANY web site on the internet. Google is great for cheating on pub quizes, which I never do of course.
Camera - speaks for itself
And of course I can also make phone calls.

Virtually everyone in my office either has one, or is getting one.

Anyway, this phone + TomTom makes an excellent SAT NAV solution that you can easily have with you all the time.

martint123

OK, how do you get a "free" SPV C500?? I see them at £150 on web sites and "from free to £75" on Orange's site, but at £25 a month..... Not seen a free one anywhere.

thespacecowboy

It will be free on contract, i.e. you pay a monthly fee and the phone itself is free. Sorry, nothing free in this life!

mcanny

Back on topic for a moment (if that's OK? ) - I called 8 Halfords stores today, none of them had stock of this PDA and most confirmed that they had been without stock for 2 > 3 months. A shame as I'm looking for something like this to try and stop me spending lots of money on the Dell unit