Mobile Phones

My virgin mobile is super cheap and the reception is fine, its gets better all the time....when i moved into my flat there was no signal in the area so i bough a t-mobile simcard then as soon as everything was unpacked they put a mast on the block of flats next door so now its perfect! obv. i can't promise that this happen to you. x

Right, for some reason I am scouring the face of the earth for an old brick like 80's mobile phone.

I only need it temporarily, or if you want I can take it off your hands personally....I would be willing to exchange some dosh for one.

If you have NO idea what i'm on about have a look at the bussiness man in this Virgin ad:
YouTube- Virgin Atlantic

Also, I'm based in Cambridge, but if you could get it in the post by Wednesday that would be great.

Thanks in advance

http://www.retrobrick.com/

Right, for some reason I am scouring the face of the earth for an old brick like 80's mobile phone.

I only need it temporarily, or if you want I can take it off your hands personally....I would be willing to exchange some dosh for one.

If you have NO idea what i'm on about have a look at the bussiness man in this Virgin ad:
YouTube- Virgin Atlantic

Also, I'm based in Cambridge, but if you could get it in the post by Wednesday that would be great.

Thanks in advance

God loves a trier. Yes, of course I'll post £1500-worth of retro classic to a complete stranger...

Oh alright then Mr cynical is there no faith left in mankind?!
Honestly, I didnt know they were worth that much, I would have made more protest when we thre out our old one...

http://www.retrobrick.com/

Wow, it's like Classic Lightweights, but with phones.

lightweights?

lightweights?

I worked with a plumber a few years ago who still had one of these I laughed and he said "well no fuckers going to nick it"

Had one of these - best goddamn phone I ever had

http://www.retrobrick.com/ericssont28.html

They used to cost about £600 over 15 years ago.

just got a free upgrade to vivaz

so we'll see how it works out. its more of a camera than a phone, imho so far, and not even a Zeiss lensed one.
I have 7 days to decide if i like it.... if i don't i'll prob have a rethink and maybe get the less than indestructable land rover phone.

Don't expect it to be that good if they have the name on it (Zeiss, Leica etc.), unless they're a proper camera lens.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/apr/28/palm-hp-takeover

I've used the latest mobile phones for the last few years, upgrading regularly. My last phone was a blackberry storm. I thought it was good, til it broke.

I then had to resort to the bottom drawer, pulled out my old nokia 6210. Black and white. Basic. Sends texts and makes calls. The first thing I noticed was sound quality - surprisingly good. Start up time from battery insertion was like 3 seconds. No freezing, very fast menus. Battery lasts at least 4 days with regular talking because of the lack of a colour screen. I'm really tempted to stick to this phone. It does what I need, well.

Anyone who shares this thinking?

mobile phones are gay.

Yep, I got a new phone (fairly basic Nokia though it does have internet, bluetooth and stuff) last year after using an even more basic Nokia for about three years.

Normally when it comes to contract re-negotiation time I negotiate a contract without a handset. I don't want to be in that pointless environmentally damaging upgrade cycle...

Anyone who shares this thinking?

New threads... Ever thought "what's the point?"

Good man. Repped. ;)

EDIT:

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to hippy again.
:(

Sony Ericsson dumps Symbian....and is to stay faithful to Android.

Andyp jumped ship just in time eh?

And now Samsung has abandoned Symbian also. It seems as no matter how good their (version) v3, no-one except Nokia cares.

I still like Symbian*, but it really is very uncompetitive when compared to Android.

*On my Sony-Ericsson Satio.

i've got one of the most basic nokia's out there. i went through a stage of losing my phone on the farm somewhere on a regular basis so bought the cheapest i could find. have has it for nearly 3 years now and it is crashing on a regular basis and sometimes wont turn on for hours, so i guess it's time to get a new one.... have been putting it off....

so i think i want a phone with internet and email capabilities, but have no idea which one. i have seen so many iphones with damaged screens, i think i'd break one within days.... so what do i go for? i have absolutely no idea.... please help. pretty please.

also need to change from orange (rubbish signal in my house) so who is better, o2 or vodaphone?

Vodafone is just expensive, and for no extra value. If you don't want too much from a phone, then get any larger-screened internet capable phone, and a hard rubberized case, or a thick leather case. That would permanently protect your screen. There are even aluminium cases, so really its the phone first, then protection for it.

i've got one of the most basic nokia's out there. i went through a stage of losing my phone on the farm somewhere on a regular basis so bought the cheapest i could find. have has it for nearly 3 years now and it is crashing on a regular basis and sometimes wont turn on for hours, so i guess it's time to get a new one.... have been putting it off....

so i think i want a phone with internet and email capabilities, but have no idea which one. i have seen so many iphones with damaged screens, i think i'd break one within days.... so what do i go for? i have absolutely no idea.... please help. pretty please.

also need to change from orange (rubbish signal in my house) so who is better, o2 or vodaphone?

Please don't go for Vodafone, I'm on an 18 contract with them, and dying to get out already, just expensive, expensive, expensive. Total rip off compared to Tmobile my old provider.
I'd say o2.

Sony Ericsson dumps Symbian....and is to stay faithful to Android.

Andyp jumped ship just in time eh?

I'm many things but stupid isn't one of them.

Lee Williams has resigned as head of the Symbian Foundation and, as one of my former colleagues put it so eloquently on Twitter, "Good riddance to bad rubbish!". It'll be interesting to see if anyone funds the SF for a third year, it's looking unlikely at the moment so the largest open source experiment of all time looks set to fail.

At the same time, Nokia announce the end of Symbian as a third party developer platform. From now on developers have a choice of Qt or HTML5 if they want apps to run on Nokia phones (which will continue to run Symbian OS and Meego underneath). This is a sensible move, the Symbian programming paradigm was too difficult for newcomers to learn quickly.