I have a LG Chocolate from Verizon. The contract is up in a few months. I’ve been thinking of jumping over to an iPhone when it’s done, and was hoping the next version of the iPhone would be out by then.
But I recently got a Nokia n800 Internet Tablet, which simply rocks. The fact that it is so open, runs Linux, I can program stuff in Python for it, etc., makes it hard to locking myself into an iPhone. So I’ve been thinking about getting a Nokia phone instead. I’ve been looking at the n95, but maybe even something cheaper. Something with decent data connectivity so I can Bluetooth into it via the n800 when I can’t get wifi. But when I go to T-Mobile or Cingular, the only phones they offer with plans are much, much more low end. Say I got a n95, or whatever, unlocked. Do I just walk in to T-Mobile and ask for a sim card for my unlocked phone, and then sign up with a plan without a phone? Super-noob here.
Also, is there a bit of a lower end phone that you would recommend? Something with decent data, maybe a decent camera. I don’t need a ton of features other than that if I have the n800 for email etc.
I own an n95. The phone itself rocks, is packed full of features, and connects to just about anything you can throw at it (wifi, bluetooth, infrared, usb, heck even your TV via the TV-out port).
However, the battery life sucks big time. You can’t run the n95 for more than 24 hours without needing to charge it. And if you are in a low-coverage area (so it has to constantly poll for a connection) or if you run the GPS it’ll drain faster than you would ever believe. Once unlocked the phone will work across any network however.
I have an iPhone now, and I love it! however I still covet the n95/6. It just looks so darn cool. Plus a new app was released last week called Joiku Hotspot. This little app lets you use the 3g in the phone as the wan for a wifi hotspot. So you would never be without wifi for your n800 or laptop as long as you had cell signal. This seems like soooo wickedly cool.
I have just bought the N810 here in the UK, and have been thinking about the best phone to go with it, something fairly simple. I was thinking about getting the Nokia E51…
I have N95. It’s not a bad phone, however I can’t be happy about it, as I had to repair it twice already. It used to switch off very often while opening or closing it. And I am afraid I’ll have to repair it one more time, as now it suffers from another “feature” – it cancels the incomming call while taking it from my pocked (80% of cases). Also, GPS is very week I managed to find a hotel in Rome faster when it acquired signal from satelites.
All those N95 problems have been solved zith the new N95 8gb, especially the battery’s lifetime.
I was planning on getting an iPhone but when I saw what you could do with the N95 i quickly changed my mind. The accelerometer, the GPS, the really good camera and a Symbian OS….
yeah, n95 8gb looks cool, but I can’t see paying 4x what I paid for the n800 for a device to tether it to. 🙂
You may want to wait to the N96 (http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n96) hits the West and then upgrade to a used and/or new N95. They should come down in price if you buy used for sure.
Yes, with T-Mobile you should just be able to pop a new SIM and insert into any device you may purchase. I often swap between devices. My T-Mobile SIM works across any unlocked GSM phone (including some device that some company named ‘Apple’, makes).
… I’ve had my T-Mobile plan so long I’m not even sure if you can just buy a plan without a device … I wouldn’t see why not … just tell them you already have an unlocked device from another operator and want to use it on the T-Mobile network. They won’t support it, but they shouldn’t care outside of support related issues.
Came across your site via Grden. Will be checking back.
Just thought I’d mention that if you go to the trouble of jailbreaking an iPhone (which isn’t too hard) you can download and install a BSD subsystem, bash shell, Python, Ruby, Apache, SQLite and a lot of other ported tools right onto it. It’s pretty wild sitting there and running ssh into your iPhone, or bringing up terminal and executing Unix commands using the touch keyboard 🙂
More info here: http://www.saurik.com/id/1
Best of luck.
Yeah, I’m leaning towards an iPhone when the new ones come out, which will probably be about the same time my Verizon contract is up anyway. But I doubt I would hack it.
I have a Motorola razr V3. A few days ago i tried transfering music to it but right after download, it displays “file corrupt.” it does the same thing with all sound files. I tried moto mixer but it says “data error.” iMelody says memory full. I tried master reset but didn’t solve anything. i want go crazy. Anybody please help.