Mobile Phone Review Site

[prolfe]

I have been looking at changing my personal N80 for either:

Nokia N95
LG Viewity (KU990)
or
Sony Ericsson K850

all of which have 5mp cameras and a host of features.

During this search i have found this brilliant website that reviews phones in quite some depth with lots and lots and lots of photo's and videos.

I'm blown away by it really. I have seen CNET and other places but this is just something else.

Have a peek yourselves and let me know what you think.

http://www.gsmarena.com/

I have nothing to do with the site, just love it's content.

Oh and I think I'm gonna have the LG even though i have never had any personal phone other than Nokia's.

[Ben]

I also have a N80 and WANT the N95

Must have Wifi you see. Good camera is bonus.

[prolfe]

N95 8GB is out soon.

I really love the 95, but don't use the WiFi. The Symbian software is ok but sometimes does my head in.

The N80 i've got I will use instead of my crap call quality O2 XDA IQ

The benefit of the IQ is Windows Mobile 5, which i've flashed to Windows Mobile 6 and overclocked it from 190 to 240mhz.

Having WM6 gives me my work's outlook, diary contacts etc.

The N80's benefit's to me are it's camera, TOMTOM software and call quality.

oh i still don't know, just read that the LG is a bit plasticky - will have to hold one in the flesh i think. Then again the N95 is more plasticky than the N80.

hmm

[Ben]

where did you get the tom tom software from?

[prolfe]

From the shops of course

but i could also say

from a lot of torrent sites. PM me tomorrow.

i have the nokia GPS receiver which is small and reliable and the battery lasts days and days (as sometimes i leave it on)

The receiver is velcro'd behind my rear view mirror - so that i cannot see it whilst driving. then i take it off and put it away when not in use.

You need a 256mb card as a minimum, but with gaming SD cards you can get 1gb really cheap.

I have John Cleese as the voice as he is not annoying.

BTW TomTom is absolutely brilliant and i would recommend it to the whole world.

[Ben]

thats what i thought you'd say.

i don't have a gps reciever.

[prolfe]

The Receiver even at it's full price of £65 it's an amazing price for full functional Sat Nav that puts OEM SatNav to shame.

LD-3W is the model. Search around and you might be able to get it for about £45

Before OEM SatNav owners get all lardy da - i know that the screen on good OEM's are massive in comparison and the sound will be through excellent speakers but you'd of forked out a good old £1500, keep the car 4 years and instead you could buy a new phone, receiver and GPS unit every year and still have cash left over.

[onzarob]

N95 8GB is out soon.

I really love the 95, but don't use the WiFi. The Symbian software is ok but sometimes does my head in.

My Brother (Twin) is a senior developer for Nokia, currently doing the N-Gage stuff. He has all the rubbish jobs

[dessimpson]

You can get a bluetooth GPS receiver for under £40 delivered on ebay.
I payed £140 for mine and my mate got one off ebay and it performed exactly the same (typical )
I've got one of the HTC TyTN phones (Orange SPV 3100) which is ace but there's a new one out soon (maybe out already!) that has the GPS receiver built in (again, typical )

[prolfe]

The new N81 is not even on the release calendar and i have seen pics today of the new N82 with Wifi and a 5mp camera, built in GPS and TV Out.
Why not just keep the N95 - well the N82 will have a Xenon Flash and maybe better battery