Oh how flippant I am. I could be a politician with my U-turn on policy overnight. Or perhaps I just found a better deal.. Well, i spent all last night asking people opinions, reading reviews, looking at providers and tariffs, and talking to customer services. And spamming twitter.
I currently spend £40-50pm with o2.
In the end the choice was:
1. Stay with o2 and get an iPhone. £269 plus £35pm tariff for 18 months. That gets you 200 minutes, 200 texts, and unlimited data.
2. Change to Three and get an n95. The deal there is:
- N95 @ £15pm
- Contract @ £15pm for 18 months.
- Add-on X-series gold including Slingbox @ £10pm
- £50 of accessory vouchers
- £30 off my bill using the refer-a-friend thing.
That gives me: 1GB data transfer pm, free calls to skype users, a FREE slingbox, free viewing of recorded stuff on my slingbox, Orb (to access files on my home PC), mobilemail so i can have IMAP Gmail , free windows live messenger, 300 anytime anynetwork texts or minutes, 300 3 to 3 minutes, and 150 mins of video calls a month. Oh, and some free yahoo and ebay things that I haven’t really looked at yet.
The n95 also supprts 3G and other faster-than-edge technologies. Oh it has GPS too. And a 5MP camera with carl zeiss lens. I can transfer my number over too. Did i mention it supports SDHC, so can use up to 8GB cards?
Oh, and it’s not all locked down like the iPhone, which is the real killer for me.
I’d be crazy to go for the iPhone while deals like this are out there. So i went for the n95 last night. Yeah, the battery life is awful if you don’t turn off wifi scanning, but i had the same problem with my N80.
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If by any chance you want to join Three, I can get you £30 off on the recommend a friend thing - so do let me know, as i get £30 off too! 
Update: A 16GB iPod touch is £254. So for the cost of a 8GB iPhone, you could get an n95 on three AND a 16GB iPod touch. Who in their right mind would buy an iPhone?
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I switched to Three once. Never again. Even in the centre of Nottingham, the reception was shitty and calls kept dropping. Anywhere a bit more rural was just a lost cause.
I’ve been with 3 since 2003 and have had varying levels of customer service from them, but when an Indian script reader has let me down, a short sharp email to customer.services@3mail.com has sorted problems out every time.
They pick your phone up for free, repair it for free and send it back to you for free when it goes faulty. Orange charge £15 for this.
The tarriffs have always been and always will be better than all other networks.
The handsets are not butchered like they are on Orange, better variety than on O2, cheaper than Vodafone and T-Mobile.
And as for the iPhone … well, Tumbleweeds outnumber punters, as iPhone’s First Night flops says it all.
Well done UK for not being brainwashed. Well, most of you.
Loads of folk (myself included) found it impossible to get MobileMail to work properly with gmail accounts.
If you too have problems, try adding a gmail imap folder to the built-in S60 Messaging app (instructions here: ) or use an independent service such as Consilient or Emoze.
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Aargh!
Proper link to S60 instructions
[quote comment="125"]Loads of folk (myself included) found it impossible to get MobileMail to work properly with gmail accounts.
If you too have problems, try adding a gmail imap folder to the built-in S60 Messaging app (instructions here: ) or use an independent service such as Consilient or Emoze.
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i haven’t used that yet - i’ve just installed the Gmail application, which seems to work incredibly well… so far! I guess it could eat up my free 1GB bandwidth though, so i may switch to mobilemail.
but the N95 blow chucks….it has the battery life of a hayfever suffering bee and a lot of the features just don’t work. in the end i had to return mine.
[quote post="98"]Who in their right mind would buy an iPhone?[/quote]
me
and you know how much I love it!