[talks-uk] Fw: What phone to use next?
- From: "Matt Brown" <matthew_brown@xxxxxxx>
- To: <talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:16:06 +0100
From: Matt Brown
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:15 PM
To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: What phone to use next?
Hi, I wondered if anyone has a better idea of where to go next in terms of
phones?
When I started my T-mobile contract in 2007, they gave me an N95. However, they
ended up sending me 5 new handsets because each one I got was damaged on
delivery, GPS not working on one, No Wi-Fi on the next, damaged casing etc etc.
The 5th one was OK, but a few months after I got it I stupidly stood up from my
computer desk not realising the headphones had fallen into my lap and snagged
on my belt, and I pulled the bloody thing off the desk and the display stopped
working after it made contact with the floor!
Nokia admitted the N95 screen was very fragile compared to other phones, but
the repair was stupid money, so in the end I got an N82 with insurance money,
because T-mobile argued that as they had sent me 5 handsets already, they
weren't prepared to send me a 6th.
So, I've been using my N82 on T-mobile for around 12 months of my 18 month
contract, and I'm now eligible for an upgrade, but remember the phone T-mobile
provided was the N95, not the N82.
So this leaves me in a spot because the phones T-mobile have offered me are the
N79 and the N96, which although much better handsets than the N95, are not as
good, or only just as good as the N82.
Some of you may argue with me, but from what I've read online, the N79 is
roughly equal to the N82 in design and reliability whilst not as powerful from
a feature set point of view, and the N96's only advantage over the N82 is the
bigger memory. With both handsets you loose the Xenon flash, and the N96 is a
slide-phone which are notoriously easy to damage, flimsy and poorly built.
Some people advise me to hold on for the N97 which will have a qwerty keyboard
so it will be accessible to us, but because that phone will also be
touch-screen based, I'm not sure Talks will support it. In fact, I'm growing
very concerned now that Nokia are bringing out more and more touch-screen based
handsets because of the staggering popularity of the IPhone Touch.
Folks the N95, N96, N82 and N79's of this World won't be around forever, and
then what are we going to do? Nokia is rolling out new phones yes, but the
top-of-the-line handsets which feature many of the things we blind users have
come to depend on, are increasingly coming out with touch-screen displays which
we cannot use. I'm really hoping that Talks is going to come up with something
that will work on other platforms such as Motorola or Sony Erikson for
instance, otherwise in the next 5 years or so, we'll all be royally screwed!
Anyway in the meantime, your advice regarding if I should take either the N96
or N79 I'm being offered now, or wait for the N97 or some other Nokia handset
I'm unaware of at the moment will be much appreciated.
Matt
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