Fellow photographers....what phone do you use?

Smart Phones are the thing just now, I've got a Blackberry Storm, but i think apple produce quite a popular one also.:)
 
I've been using XDA style phones for the last 5 years.

T-Mobile Vario II
O2 XDA Mini S
O2 XDA 2

My contract is up for renewal and I quite fancy an iphone although I hear a new version is due soon.
 
Nokia N95. Moved over to the N96 and swiftly back to the N95. I may get the blackberry storm next. Just need to do some research. Heard rumours that it doesnt like pairing with Range Rover bluetooth...


Kev.
 
I use a iPhone, and i love it. iPhones and Blackberries seem to be very popular nowadays.
 
Use an iPhone. Love it but in terms of functions....it's quite limited.
The new Google phone is meant to be pretty good...
 
Dodgy old nokia handset but great BT Genie contract - £10 a month for unlimited free WAP (never used it), unlimited free texts and 50 minutes a day to O2/landline :D
 
I-Phone here too, only had it two months, really like it. With the amount of applications you can download you should never really get bored. Battery life isnt great.

David
 
Twentyten said:
Smart Phones are the thing just now, I've got a Blackberry Storm, but i think apple produce quite a popular one also.:)
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Have to say that I love my Macbook, as do my wife, daughter and son love theirs too, however... I bought my wife an iPhone for her birthday back in January and she is not impressed with it at all. Neither am I.

You can take a photo with it, but you can not MMS that pic on to anyone.

You cannot forward a received SMS txt message.

I have not been able to connect to the free 'the cloud' wifi network anywhere.

Poor showing from Apple on this from my perspective. Personally... I'd suggest going for the Blackberry.
 
I have a Nokia 6500 Slide, it's a phone, not a million other things. Has a stainless steel casing and actually feels well made.

An iphone would drive me nuts with all the little niggles like fowarding texts, wtf? Blackberrys are too big, buttons too small.
 
apple really need to deal with the forwarding of texts and sending of mms, they are silly niggles that spoil what is a fantastic bit of kit.
 
N95 here, pretty much use all the other features on it more then being a phone, the battery can drain pretty quick when using some apps like satnav. Not really an issue for me as its plugged when i use that.

Generally have another Nokia something or other on me the works phone.
 
LG Renoir here. It's not too bad, although the bloody thing unlocks itself in my pocket and calls random people from my phonebook. Which is annoying.
 
I use an iPhone (1st gen), got it last summer (currently on PAYG, brought from a friend who upgraded to a 3G one on contract) and it's the best gadget I've brought in ages!

The wi-fi is especially handy around uni buildings for checking mail etc, downloadable apps and the whole touch interface is excellent.

It isn't the most feature packed phone in the world, but it does it's job well and I like it :)
 
I had an N95 for two years, it was pretty good. Mainly got it as I could use it as a modem on a laptop, but could only get 1meg connection.

Just upgraded to a Samsung Pixon and loving it. I now get 7.2meg as a modem, it's quicker than my home BB !!!!. Only niggle is trying to get the GPS to work with nav4all.
 
SE K850i.
Fantastic phone but then I don't demand much aside from the basic functions and taking the occasional photo, which it's well equipped to do. It even works fully after falling off the back of a moving motorcycle (no screen damage either, albeit the battery did fall out) so that has to earn it some points for build quality!
The unusual buttons do take a bit of getting used to, but now I can actually text much faster than before with far fewer mistakes.
 
Nokia N95 here also, although i have a nokia 5800 in the post from orange, can't wait!
 
I had 6 different PDA's with Windows Mobile in last 3 years :) I just had to have something new everytime hehe My last one was HP iPaq 614c...now its being used as a modem by my mother hehe
Now I use Nokia E71 as there is nothing special for me on the market.
This Nokia does all I need...As we have push email server at work I get emails on it faster then on BlackBerry ;p (tested on few of them ) qwerty keyboard is handy. Its slim, has a good screen, and fast GPS.
 
I've just got a Nokia 5800 on my 02 contract - haven't had much chance to have a play with it yet - but going on first impressions it seems a really nice phone.

Alison :)
 
SE K800i

It makes calls, sends SMSes, takes reasonable snaps (3.2Mp) and sends them to other phones.

If I want to use the internet or a computer, I use a computer (with fingers the size of mine, it's quicker to go home and use the desktop than try to use a phone keyboard!) and if I want to use a camera I use the D700. I can drop my phone and have it smash into a million pieces and I'll still know where I need to be (and when) because I have it written down.

There again, my ANNUAL cost for mobile calls is about a tenner!
 
Ericsson C905.

I looked and looked and looked at all the options a month or two ago, I got very close to being taken in by the general gadgetyness of the iPhone but in terms of the most usable phone and most versatile tool.... I think I got it right.
 
where the smart money goes
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Kinda explains my choice, not overly stocked on smarts or money. :D
 
Blue Eagle said:
I have a Nokia 6500 Slide, it's a phone, not a million other things. Has a stainless steel casing and actually feels well made.
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Snap, got one too. Not failed yet and is a simple to use reliable and easy.

Business phone is a nokia 3109, even simpler:thumbs:
 
usually change my phone every few weeks, working in the industry, but for personal use I have a iPhone and have stuck with it :)
 
I was always a smartphone user and my last was the hp6340 pda phone but having got older a normal phone is mere me so I had to toss up between the n91 and n95 and the 91 was more my phone as I could plug my speakers in and it was Denon quality from a phone so when I sold this and got my upgrade I as offered phones ranging from 30quid up to 300quid for free so I just went the music phone route and took the nokia 5220 ....cheap,chearfull does the jobb but blows most 2k stereo systems away lol..... still want a hp6340 again though it was brill
 
tarmac_chaser said:
Phoned 3 to ask when my contract expires, and they offered me a Nokia N95 8gb as an upgrade. I only pay £18 a month so fine by me
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18QUID AMONTH :thinking: VIRGIN do me two contracts at 20quid a month(both not each) all calls cross network and all texts both phones all that isnt included is internet we have to pay an extra 9quid for that so we do our surfing at home

My biggest bill so far was Eileens a few months ago and it was a whopping 11.38:lol::lol::lol:
 
I'm a self confessed technophobe, and Apple products don't really seem to stimulate my 'hype' sense like some others, but at time of renewal I got an iPhone, that was about a year ago.

I absolutely love it. I don't forward texts, I don't share files via Bluetooth, I don't do picture messages and I don't really ever take pictures with a phone, so none of these things bother me.

I travel around the county a fair bit with my work, and being able to easily get onto the web, and get my emails all the time is just brilliant. I know 'normal' phones can offer those functions to some extent, but not like my iPhone.

The battery life isn't great, but it's dealing with a lot so I accept that. If I don't sit on the sofa web browsing in the evening, just using it for calls and emails during the day, I can get 48 hours from a charge but mostly I stick it on charge every night and I've never run out of juice yet.

I've finally worked out enough bits of iTunes to add music and a couple of films so I can listen while I'm working, and I watched a film the other day whilst stuck on a motorway while we waited for emergency services to clear wreckage for 2 hours.

If you live in a weak signal area, it's not an ideal phone as it struggles more than most, I live in a very bad signal spot, every phone that comes here can only just about find a signal. Normally it's ok though.

When my contract is up, I'll either just keep this, of get another.
 
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