Just got a new phone

[Cigaro]

Samsung SGH-E250. MP3 player, memory card support, bluetooth, all that malarky.

£25 from Phones4U on Virgin. I'm impressed. It's the nicest, and cheapest, phone I've ever had.

[Clanger]

My mobile is a phone which also holds numbers, but that's it.

I have a camera that takes pictures and an MP3 that plays music, and this arrangements suits me just fine
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[Tarmacsurfer]

Speaking as someone who rides a bike, convergence is wonderful. I no longer need to spend £200-£400 on a box to connect my mobile phone and walkman to, I can simply run my phone headphones into the lid and off we go. I can also run a satnav system on it. Wait, there's more. If I'm out in the summer on a fast blat and don't want to bother lugging my decent camera around in it's case then if the scene presents itself I still have the means to take an acceptable (not great, but then it's not meant as a camera replacement) picture if I need to.

Not only this, but the bluetooth enables me to put the phone safely in an inside pocket and control the audio with a cheap remote attached to the back of my left glove.

That's just a brief list as pertaining directly to me as a rider. There are endless other uses in my everyday life as well.

It's great to see technology being made useful, personally I reckon mobile phones are one of the few areas where they're actually doing that and making advances.

I still can't get over the fact someone voluntarily bought a Samsung though
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[Cigaro]

Agree with all that, TarmacSurfer. To be truthful the bike is mostly why I got it, instead of lugging a camera and mp3 around it's all on the phone, i can use a bluetooth headset to listen to music too.

Wired headphones are a pain to get on underneath the lid.

Never had a problem with Samsungs. For £25 I'm very pleased.

[kitty kat]

my phone has mp3 on it, but I have only put 3 songs on I have a Sony Ericsson
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[KLR600]

I got my Sony Ericsson W750i for £25 second hand from a mate. I then put a 4GB memory card in it that I already had and now I can have most of my favourite music with me when I go mountain biking and if I fall off and smash up my phone I'm just happy I haven't smashed up my phone (which I would of had with me anyway) AND an MP3 player. It also has an acceptable camera for when the DSLR is at home.

I agree that phones are great for stuff like this but I don't think I'd have something like an Iphone as I simply don't need to be checking my emails every 2 seconds and be constantly on the net or whatever.
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[bazza]

[Cigaro]

In case anyone missed the point of my post, it is that they are doing a decent phone for £25.

I'll try not to be informative in future, now I know that it is against the law of Bazza.

[Tarmacsurfer]

Ignore him, he's a black belt grumpy fucker with a vicious sense of humour, no need to rise to the bait and get offended when he casts the hook

Each unto their own, I've never got on with the Samsung menu system or firmwares. Actively had problems with them in fact, but as long as it's useful and you're happy then rock on
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[ms51ves3]

My K750i that I bought over 2 years ago is brilliant. I use the camera on it and the built in torch. The torch comes in handy all the time when working on the bikes.

It cost me £120 when I bought it so I want to get the full usage out of it

[Carl_steveo]

I got the samsung tocco. It's actually really good i like it.

[JonB]

[Steve H]

[MattHirst]

[ms51ves3]

[MattHirst]

[Carl_steveo]

Some people just don't have the intellect to use a touch screen. That or fat thumbs.

[Flip]

F*ck that touch screen sh1t. Nothing wrong with buttons.

[MattHirst]

[Tarmacsurfer]

Only time I've had to use the stylus on the W960i is when I've been RDPd into a pc, trying to deal with a desktop on that size screen is a little challenging to say the least.

One of the main things I like about the phone is the hybrid of real buttons (that have a fairly satisfying mechanical click when texting) and the touch screen for general utility. The interface was clunky until I took the Vodafone software off, running generic SE firmware now and it's fine, a second or two of display lag at times but nothing overly major that I've noticed and got irritated by. The music management in particular I find quite impressive, there's near 6 gig of albums to scroll through and it's never even hiccupped. I did find a few glitches when my text inbox/sent box hit over 1000 in both, and searching for specific messages got a bit shaky in that the messaging app would crash if you tried using search for a specific word. Horses for courses I suppose.
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