Thinking of a new phone

" Features that I'm mostly interested in are: email, digital camera, built in modem? Speaker phone, HTML browsing, Pocket PC, MP3 player.
"Synchronise with your PC's email, diary, contacts, tasks and notebook with Microsoft Outlook¨. And, of course, you can access your Orange email accounts too."
I've had major problems with Orange's website, trying to set up email, that doesn't sound good. Sounds like I'd have to have an Orange email address.
"Windows Media Player which lets you listen to your favourite tunes on MP3"

Talk Plan	Line Rental	Free minutes	Peak per min	Cross Network Calls
Orange 400	£50.00	400	10p	35p
OVP T-Mobile Everyone 300	£42.50	300	?	?
Plan	Line Rental	Inclusive Megabytes	Cost per Mb used
GPRS 0.5Mb	£4 per month	0.5	£8.00
GPRS 5Mb	£15 per month	5 MB	£3.50

Bad Points:
Keypad small and a bit clumsy to use,
Supplied case covers all phone,
Quality of pictures via camera not great - Nokia 7650 fairs better,
USB Connection slow,
Poor ringtones,
Ringtones not very loud,
Battery goes down quick, even when not making calls,
Backlight comes on when any key is pressed when the phone keypad is locked - since it could stay on for 10/15 seconds, this will drain much needed battery time.

I am considering exchanging mine for the Nokia 7650. Whilst the Nokia is larger, heavier and more expensive, it does have a better build quality and the software/menuing is not prone to the problems the SPV exhibits.

Another review: I was installing all kind of software on my phone in the beginning due to which the phone slowed down or sometime crashed. After all it's a PC. Now I added 512 MB SD Card and have everything in there. Problem resolved. The new upgrade has improved the battery life, the antenna and the value of the product drastically.

A reply to a review: You can customise the homescreen however you want, it's just not that easy, and you need basically to be a XML programmer. However, check out www.modaco.com, and lot's of nice people have put together some quite brilliant homescreens.

A review about the 7650: Go to http://www.findmidis.com and download the latest chart midi song files and upload them onto the 7650 for free! (http://www.softwaremarket.nokia.com) and there is quite a range of apps to choose from. You can even get spy software (Digia ImageSpy 7650/3650) that has motion detection (the camera can be set to monitor its neighbourhood and raise an alarm/ send picture when motion is detected).

A pro review: Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE), which supports HTML 3.2, cHTML, MSXML, JScript, WAP 1.2.1 and WTLS. With it, you can browse just about any web site out there, which is a major advantage over browsers in other smartphone offerings which for the most part offer browsing only WAP or XHTML content. As time has passed, quite a number of sites adapted for PIE on the Pocket PC platform have cropped up, and the majority of these sites will work on the SPV.

I'm going to look at the Symbian on Nokia, see what it can do. I need a webbrowser on a phone, and so far the only game is Microsoft [damn].

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