[access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile phone/providers questions

  • From: "James Scholes" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:37:00 +0100

Hi, when I tried the N70, I didn't think it was that great, but I didn't think it was the worst phone, as far as call quality goes. Doesn't stand out I guess is what I'm trying to say.


Jackie Cairns wrote:


|| It must vary from phone to phone.  The N70 Ian often uses is good
|| quality, and I've spoken to others on these handsets with good
|| results.
||
|| From just trying out the N82, I thought it was quite good: for music,
|| incoming ringing, calls and usability.
||
|| Jackie
||
|| Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx
|| Skype Name: Cairnsplace
|| ----- Original Message -----
|| From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|| Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:43 PM
|| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile phone/providers
|| questions
||
||
||| I found my N70 very quiet and poor quality on calls. I've got an
||| N75 now and
||| that sounds fantastic. If I get a KNFB reader, it may appear on a
||| recycle list! But if the N82 sound is poor, I'll be waiting for
||| alternative Zenon flash phones first.
|||
||| Cheers
||| Dave
|||
|||
||| --------------------------------------------------
||| From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
||| Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:06 PM
||| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
||| Subject:  [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile phone/providers
||| questions
|||
||| Andy and Steve
|||
||| Personally, I think the N91 has a bit more depth than all the
||| phones I've seen.  When I put my N91 in my bag, even with the
||| volume set to its maximum
||| of 10, I still find it more difficult to hear when I'm in a noisy
||| environment than when I tried the N82 and trying out Ian's N95, or
||| with my older 6600 and N70 phones.
|||
||| I only know this because I like carrying out little tests like
||| being able to
||| hear the phone in a noisy place, and I think the N91 is quietest of
||| them all
||| for that.
|||
||| Jackie
|||
||| Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx
||| Skype Name: Cairnsplace
||| ----- Original Message -----
||| From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
||| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
||| Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 4:49 PM
||| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile phone/providers
||| questions
|||
|||
|||| Hi Andy,
||||
|||| Yes, I would say it is about the same.
||||
|||| All the best
||||
|||| Steve
||||
|||| -----Original Message-----
|||| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
|||| Behalf Of
|||| Andy Collins
|||| Sent: Sunday 27 April 2008 12:35
|||| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|||| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile phone/providers
|||| questions
||||
|||| Steve - I do have a hearing loss; is the sound on the N82 as
|||| loud/clear as
|||| on the N91? -
||||
|||| Andy
|||| ----- Original Message -----
|||| From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|||| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|||| Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:47 AM
|||| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile phone/providers
|||| questions
||||
||||
||||| Hi Will,
|||||
||||| Do you have poor hearing then?  Do you need it much louder?
||||| Personally I think Talks sounds harsh on the N73, and besides,
||||| the N73 is an old phone anyway <Smile>.
|||||
||||| All the best
|||||
||||| Steve
|||||
||||| -----Original Message-----
||||| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
|||| Behalf
|||| Of
||||| will lomas
||||| Sent: Sunday 27 April 2008 11:43
||||| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
||||| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile
||||| phone/providers questions
|||||
||||| hi but the n sevnety three is much much louder guys than the n
||||| eighty two.
||||
|||| i
||||| love the KNFB reader too but who has got the money to spend on
||||| it, 900 plus pounds? it should be hundred quid and that's that as
||||| no one can afford it. for me when i saw the ne ighty two, the
||||| design is great but the sound
|||| is
|||| the
||||| worst i ahve ever heard on any phone
|||||
||||| On 27 Apr 2008, at 10:02, Jackie Cairns wrote:
|||||
|||||| Very interesting and useful to know Steve, thanks.  I love the
|||||| keypad on the N82.  I've had a play with the K-Reader on that
|||||| phone and it's very impressive.
||||||
|||||| Jackie
||||||
|||||| Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx
|||||| Skype Name: Cairnsplace
|||||| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Nutt"
|||||| <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|||||| Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:32 AM
|||||| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile
|||||| phone/providers questions
||||||
||||||
||||||| Hi Jackie,
|||||||
||||||| Yes, only in that the battery life is about three times as long.
|||||||
||||||| All the best
|||||||
||||||| Steve
|||||||
||||||| -----Original Message-----
||||||| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
||||||| On Behalf Of Jackie Cairns
||||||| Sent: Saturday 26 April 2008 18:00
||||||| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
||||||| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile
||||||| phone/providers questions
|||||||
||||||| Ah! Nutty! so you like the N82 over the N95 now do you babe?
||||||| (smile.) Actually so do I, except I haven't got one ... yet.
|||||||
||||||| Jackie
|||||||
||||||| Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx
||||||| Skype Name: Cairnsplace
||||||| ----- Original Message -----
||||||| From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
||||||| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
||||||| Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:28 PM
||||||| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile
||||||| phone/providers questions
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||| Hi Carol,
||||||||
|||||||| Just to point out that older phones like the 6630 are no longer
|||||||| available, and you are therefore, not likely to get them from
|||||||| an operator with a new contract.  Third Edition phones are the
|||||||| "in thing" now, such as the E65, E75, N82 (The best phone ever
|||||||| so far in my view), the N95, etc.
||||||||
|||||||| All the best
||||||||
|||||||| Steve
||||||||
|||||||| -----Original Message-----
|||||||| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
|||||||| On Behalf Of Carol Pearson
|||||||| Sent: Friday 25 April 2008 22:04
|||||||| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|||||||| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Choosing/switching mobile
|||||||| phone/providers questions
||||||||
|||||||| Hi Catherine,
||||||||
|||||||| As I'm exitting Orange as a very unhappy customer of theirs,
|||||||| I'm delighted to tell you as much as I can.  (See my answers
|||||||| to your questions
|||||||| below)
||||||||
||||||||| 1.  Could I leave before my contract's up?  How do I even
||||||||| find out
|||||||| I had graduated to a £15 monthly contract where only a month's
|||||||| notice had to be given, because I thought I was on the way out!
|||||||| Well, usually with contracts they say they still charge you
|||||||| ... even if you go ...
||||||||
|||||||| If you've been paying much over the odds, do what I intend to
|||||||| do and that's to go to OFFCOM, if they don't give me the money
|||||||| back they've taken falsely!
||||||||| 2.  What happens, if/when you switch providers, about keeping
||||||||| the same phone number?
|||||||| You ask them for a PAC (Port Authorization Code) which they
|||||||| will send you in the post.  Then you sign up with another
|||||||| provider and they import the number.  There's a short delay,
|||||||| so you may have a temporary number for a few days, but it
|||||||| works out OK.  I've done it once already and am just doing it
|||||||| again with two phones.
|||||||||
||||||||| 3.  Has anyone got any comments accessibilitywise about
||||||||| particular providers?  Or phones for that matter.  I'm happy
||||||||| with my Nokia 6630 with Talks and a hefty crack in the
||||||||| screen, but if switching means I get a new phone which I can
||||||||| instal Talks, MobileSpeak or SmartHal onto I'll do it.  On
||||||||| the other hand is it possible to sign up for a new contract
||||||||| and use my existing phone?  I think they usually give you a
||||||||| phone as part of the contract but would I be able to swap the
||||||||| sim over and use it in my old phone?  If this is possible I
||||||||| may do it to save money.
|||||||| I'm sticking to Pay As You Go for the first three months to
|||||||| look at various contracts with O2.  Even if I was having a
|||||||| contract, I'd keep my own phones running because TALKS gets
|||||||| expensive to keep changing.  Yes, you can swap the sims,
|||||||| unless you have very old phones and then they may not work.
|||||||| The 6630 should be OK.
|||||||||
||||||||| 4.  Has anyone any recommendations for websites that compare
||||||||| different packages/tariffs?  I had a quick look on
||||||||| moneysupermarket.com and found the phone comparison tool's
||||||||| search results a bit hard to understand, though I've used it
||||||||| before for credit cards.
|||||||| I suggest you may want to look at
||||||||
|||||||| http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/
||||||||
|||||||| Or, if you prefer, call in and talk to them.
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| Can't help you much with your final question, but hopefully
|||||||| this will get you somewhere.
||||||||
|||||||| Write again if you think I can give you any more and of course
|||||||| privately if you want a bit more info about my problems with
|||||||| Orange.
||||||||
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