ericsson 880i v nokia 6300 for upgrade

pennysweets

I'm due an upgrade on my contract in the next week or so and Vodafone have offered me various phones, which i've had a look at and it's come down to either the ericsson 880i or the nokia 6300.

Which is the best phone. I've read that the 880i is the better one if all you want to do is listen to music, but all i'm looking for is calls, texting, taking pictures and recording videos.

Also which has the largest inbox for text messages. The one i have at present has an inbox of 200 texts which comes quite handy if i can't be arsed clearing my inbox.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

sarah1972

Personally I would always go for the Nokia.

For me its better the devil you know and Nokia's are easy to use for calling texting and finding your way around the handset.

Anyway you can try the phone and if you dont like it, send it back (within a week i think) and get the other one.

Hope that helps a bit

pennysweets

Many thanks Sarah1972, i might try one handset to see how it goes and if i don't like it i'll change it.

The only downfall with the ericsson as far as i can see is the tiny keys.

My wife is due her upgrade on Saturday. Whatever i get she will get the other and then we can determine which phone suits us best

sarah1972

I just called Orange as I am due an upgrade as well and they told me that you have 7 days to decide if you like the phone or not so I would assume that most of the networks would be the same.

And I agree that tiny keys are a down fall especially when texting!

Good luck with your new phone, I went for Nokia E65 so lets see how it goes

Alec_Eiffel_2

I've used both (but own the 6300).

All in all i'd say the 6300 was the better handset. The keys are better on the 6300, it's easier to navigate round, the screen is better, and it seems to be a bit more solid (the back of the 880i seems to get mucked up a bit).

The 880i does have a better music player and comes with a larger memory card.

Camera quality is much alike (in my opinion), both 2MP, no autofocus or flash on either.

pennysweets

Do you know how many messages the inbox on each phone holds?

I don't want to be deleting messages everyday.

The phone i have currently holds around 200 messages

Cheers

Alec_Eiffel_2

Not sure ref the 880i.

I think the 6300 is limited only by the free memory on the phone (if you save your photos/mp3s etc on your memory card you'll maximise the memory available on the phone itself). I've had around 90 message in the inbox, and a similar number in the sent items folder. I deleted them just as a matter of housekeeping, not cos I ran out of room. You can choose to set the phone to not save sent texts if you want also.

deedeeliz

I'm a sony ericcsson fan, My SE K800i holds about 950 texts/Picture messages before I have to delete them - I'm a hoarder so never delete them when I receive them

gaming_guy

deedeeliz wrote: »

I'm a sony ericcsson fan, My SE K800i holds about 950 texts/Picture messages before I have to delete them - I'm a hoarder so never delete them when I receive them

im also an SE fan.

my mate recently got a second hand k800i and it had about 970 messages on it