What's your mobile?

[dreamwatch]

As the board is quiet, and using Winmars post as inspiration - what mobile phone do you own? (yep, scraping the barrel today )

Nokia 6310i - the second one I've had to buy as some little muthafucka nicked the other one while we were on hols in Brissy last year. Will be adding to the mobile family with either a Nokia 6230i or a Motorola V3 soon.

 

[phlogiston]

I've got a Nokia 6610. We recently got a Sony Ericsson T630, but I'm not allowed to play with that one

 

[Icarus]

I got a seimens SL55 ehh hee

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I have a budget Sony Ericsson T230, but thats fine because it does the job. I get a new one at the end of the year when the contract runs out. I look forward to it.

 

[KoichCPA]

Mine may or may not be stolen

It's a nokia, it's blue, it has 10 pin bowling on it as a game. This is all I know about it.

 

[Lord Tim]

www.nokia6630.com.au

 

[Mark]

That's one I'm considering, Timmy! Is it a goodun?

 

[Spiff]

I have that LG one from Three. Only 14 months left on my contract!

 

[salty]

I have a Panasonic X70 that is currently busted and getting fixed...in the meantime I'm using a Sony Erricson T230 that i got with a 128mb usb drive for 99 bucks

 

[ironcross]

I've got a Kyocera 3245. It's a basic CDMA phone. I couldn't really care less about all the rubbish that comes with them these days.

 

[Stonewall]

6610, nice and boring.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I was content with my old school Nokia as well until the battery started dying every other day, and I saw the awesome deal that I got with the T230. Free Sony Discman (a rather good one too), the phone was free, free camera attachment, and free case, and 10% off my total Austar bill (it's through Austar). Also, $10 a month of calls/SMS, all for $15 a month (not inluding the 10% off). Not bad at all.

 

[Lord Tim]

That's one I'm considering, Timmy! Is it a goodun?

You bet! Comes with a photo and video editor, 1 hour of video footage, 6x zoom on the 1.3 megapixel camera, 64meg MMC card (you can put in a 128meg) so you can store pics or MP3s (the MP3 player sounds as good as any MP3-man), speaker phone, video conferencing, Java appz, Symbian OS so you can download extra programs (I got MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, etc. on it), e-mail, web... and of course it's a quad-band phone so you can use it in every territory in the world (most phones are tri-band, so Japan is out).

It's fucking awesome! I'm gonna be paying off this awesomeness for the next 2 years but it's still pretty cool!

 

[Mark]

It's quad band? Sites over here are saying it's tri-band. Nevermind, it's not like I go overseas much

Cheers Timmy - I can get it free with an O2 phone plan

 

[Stonewall]

you are such a nerd Tim, isn't all that internet stuff expensive through a mobile phone? what's the deal there?

 

[Icarus]

I only just my phone for phoning/messaging people, funnily enough, so I dont require all these gadgets.

 

[Lord Tim]

It's quad band? Sites over here are saying it's tri-band. Nevermind, it's not like I go overseas much

Definitely quad band - have a look here:

http://www.nokia.com.au/nokia/0,,59752,00.html

Roam anywhere in USA, Europe, Asia and Japan

The net stuff can add up if you're downloading a lot of stuff or chatting on the forums (yes, folks - I've logged into the forums on the phone before! ) but for chatting on MSN or whatever, it's not bad. It goes by the K received not the time you are online like WAP used to be like.

With the 3G network, you even get downloads at broadband speed which is pretty amazing for the phone. I'll stick to good old GSM networks for now, though, until a provider gives a decent G3 coverage down here (we only have that '3' network at the moment).

I'll admit it is nerdy but when you're on tour somewhere, it's easy to keep in touch with home 'cos it works all around the world and I do a lot of my business over e-mail and a lot of it contains Word documents, etc. Saves me having to get a laptop, MP3 player and digital camera as well as a phone.

 

[Kem]

I've got a big red one!

 

[Stonewall]

So Tim, its basically a palm top that makes phone calls, as opposed to a phone that does crazy shit.

 

[Mark]

Kem, you're so cutting edge

Stonewall - it's a smartphone, so it does a lot of what a PDA can do (I guess), but it actually fits in your pocket

I bought a 6230 last year (actually only about 6 months ago!) but it just doesn't do what I want it to - plus I need more business-centric features.