I just bought one, seems ok to me but i'm novice, both my lads reckon its decent for the money. Tesco knock it out for £99 and a £10 rolling monthy sim.

Chucked in some clubcard vouchers and got it for £68.

I ordered a Blackberry 9800 with Telus (Canadian Provider) for $9.99 on a 3 year term (Yes, unfortunatly 3 year terms are common here)

The plan I got is the following

200 Daytime minutes
Unlimited local calling from 6pm to 7am the next morning during the weekdays, and unlimited on saturday and sunday
Unlimited Canadian and US text/picture/video messaging
My10 Canada (Unlimited calling to any 10 numbers anywhere in Canada)
1gb of Data
Call Display
Voicemail

I pay $60 plus 13% tax per month

Canada is pretty far behind on cell phones but this is pretty good for whats avaliable

I'll have a look. Cheers for the reply

I'm not sure whether I should be posting here or the Tech thread, but so be it. I am looking for a GPS app for Blackberry, specifically one that can tell me distance covered, time average speed and altitude. Any reccomendations out there?

Try Endomondo, i use it on my HTC for biking etc.

Ta.

Exactly the same thing I am looking for.

Upgrade, HTC desire S arriving today.

I would like a full report please as i think that'll be my next phone!

I've been using the HTC desire HD for a few months now, that phone will take some beating.(Mrs Graftons upgrade, she said i could use it as my nokia N97 shared a pint with me

and she's happy with her I-phone

)I'll keep you updated over the next week.

Cheers.

Lucky you. Mrs Grafton must be deluded. My Desire went for a swim in the toilet. £65 later and its running as good as ever. So if its worth it, send the N97 there and get it flogged?

I see the Blackberry Bold 9900 and 9930 have been officially announced. What are your thoughts on their latest offerings?

Same as any other Blackberry Wheelio.

Andriod the way forward.

Not when you lack opposable thumbs it isn't.

My wife is due an upgrade and she loves my iphone. Unfortunately for her she's with virgin and only needs between 50 and 100 minutes per month. As an alternative she's got the choice between a Blackberry Curve 8520, Samsung Wave 723 and an HTC Wildfire. What are peoples thoughts on these?

Completely forgot. My bad.

1st 24hrs
On opening the box, the phone was aesthetically pleasing, it has a good feel to it, heavy enough to feel solid but not uncomfortable hold.It is slightly smaller than the IPhone but has a larger screen. I gave it a first charge of about 5-6 hours.
After inserting sim and switching on, the set up was easy and was looking at my yahoo e-mails within minutes. For some reason, when i first used the desire HD, that transferred all contacts, sms, calendar from the nokia 97 (still working by the way after the lager incident, but with a reduced battery life and the white strip inside is now pink) with no fuss, but after selecting all the available makes of HTC phone in the transfer application, the HTC desire S will only transfer contacts from the HTC HD, very strange and frustrating, but after using 3rd party software i've been able to move SMS messages across (but not MMS).
After constant heavy usage last night, i've got about 18-20 hrs usage. Now recharging.
Internet is quick to connect, and pages load instantly. The touch screen is very responsive.
The power saving settings on the phone (same as the HD) are handy when the battery is running low.
The only noticeable difference's i've come across on the gingerbread operating system is the apps screen flicks through page by page unlike the HD that scrolls, and the bookmarks now have a thumbnail instead of text, although i'm sure there will be more tweaks to find as i use it.
It also has a front facing camera, unlike the HD, for video calls (or just taking picks of yourself

).
Ring tones seem loud enough but this has yet to be tested in a pub environment..


So, so far, quite pleased with it.
PS, the Desire HD looks like an IPad next to it.

You probably know this, but make sure you charge fully before using and then ALWAYS fully deplete the battery for the first few weeks before charging again. As in, use until the phone goes dead.

Battery life actually improves over time if you stick to this. I wasn't impressed with my Desire's battery life at first but it got better and better and is now very good.

That goes for any phone, by the way.

My contract is up next month and I cant decide between a HTC Desire HD or a Samsung Galaxy S2.
Has anyone idea which is the best?
Thanks

I assume you mean the Galaxy S2 in which case go for that of the two as the S2 has a dual-core processor. If not I'd ask in a store for a working version of each handset that you can test out there in-shop as the two OS's are not to everyone's tastes.

Actually, if it is the S2 you would be better off comparing it against the HTC Sensation which is due for launch next month and is a better like for like comparison with a dual core of its own, the latest version of android preloaded and an updated version of HTC's 'Sense' UI. Don't be mislead by online spec comparisons alone though.

My contract is up at the and of the month and I really don't know what to go for?

I'm currently on an IPhone 3gs and although I've had some major issues with the iPhone it would be a hell of a lot more simple to just upgrade to the iPhone 4. That way I dont have to bother with moving contacts, pictures, messages or music.

But I really wanna try out one of the HTC phones.

Does anyone know how easy it is to get all the above mentioned from your iPhone to a HTC phone?

I did

what network are you on?

O2 but I can move to any now.

If I remember rightly O2 has a service available through the website that allows you to back such things up, not the music obviously but I assume you have to run all of that through itunes anyway.

If it's still available i think its called bluebook or something?

Thanks.

I'll take a look into it.