Mobile phones & tablets thread

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Originally Posted by henners88

Just hope I can pay towards the handset and get a decent discount on the monthly price. If I pay £300-350 towards the phone (32GB), I hope I can get the contract down to £25-30 p/m. T Mobile have been bending over backwards to get me to sign a new contract and I have 9 years of loyalty to play with too.

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You would pay 350£ for a phone + 25-30£ / month for a contract??

Apple confirms 'surprise' September 12 event ? The Register

It looks like it will indeed be called 'iPhone 5' and not 'The New iPhone'

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Originally Posted by henners88

Seeing as there is a 5 in the picture, I think you could be right :p

Isn't it the 6th generation phone though? I think they should have done what they did with the iPad and just call it what it is. An iPhone.

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Yeah it's the 6th iPhone release, but it would look a bit silly saying 6 after 4!

Nokia is introducing new models in less than an hour, live webcast Webcast - Nokia

BBC News - Nokia unveils two Windows Phone 8 handsets

Looks pretty good; and everyone here I've shown likes the look of it, would anyone buy one? No.

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Originally Posted by Mark

BBC News - Nokia unveils two Windows Phone 8 handsets

Looks pretty good; and everyone here I've shown likes the look of it, would anyone buy one? No.

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That's because they value the brand over substance :) I've got a Lumia 800 and it's a fantastic phone. Well built, interesting value added features on Nokia's part and a buttery smooth OS. When Windows 8 hits and people realise that the design language translates across both then I wonder what's going to happen? *strokes chin* Whatever happens, the iPhone 5 launch will be the last time Apple is allowed to launch yet another behind the curve phone with a view to superceding it with year old technology in another year.

I've got City Lens on my Lumia 800 and although it's not something I would probably use myself, it is very cool. The iPhone is not going to come with all the things that the Lumia 920 is going to come with.

and there you have it, a class leading phone which shares practically nothing in terms of design language with an iPhone......

If you think a lumia is anything like the disappointing Symbian smartphones of the past then you're wrong :)

bing is a good search engine, however explorer sucks.

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Originally Posted by henners88

I've had loads of Nokia's and they always knew how to produce a solid reliable phone. Looking at the Lumia 800 I would say at first glance its an okay looking phone if not a little boring with not much attention paid to the aesthetics of the phone. I see you can get it in a range of colours which is very much like Nokia back in the day, but the days of millions of different covers and colours doesn't appeal to me anymore now I have grown up. Reading the review on techradar, two things instantly jump out as negatives. Bing and Internet explorer being the default. Wouldn't touch either although with most things that's personal preference. I understand these can be changed but this option is available on iPhone too with their defaults. Another thing I dislike and I've mentioned this before in the past is the awful tile interface with bold blocks which remind me of my grandmothers phone with the big numbers. It just doesn't look inviting to use IMO. The positive about the phone is the value for money it offers. You can get them free on most networks and with cheap monthly rates. I don't think it would be fair to compare it to the new iPhone. For one we don't know the spec of it yet so its rather difficult to suggest a Nokia is better, and secondly these devices are aimed at totally different ends of the market.

Don't take offense at my criticisms Daniel, I wouldn't expect you to make the same choices. As long as you are happy with what you buy that's all that matters.

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With Windows Phone 8 and 7.8, you can change the tile sizes so that they're smaller. the monochromatic tile interface is there so that that whatever colour the tile is, the font which shows the live update can be seen easily. Live tiles are great, most people who actually try out a windows phone for more than 2 seconds find it very useful. If for instance I had yourself pinned as a live tile to my home screen, your latest facebook update will show up on your tile. Anyway not all the tiles are monochromatic anyway......

http://oi49.tinypic.com/1in2c2.jpg

As to explorer somehow being a negative? Windows Phone doesn't run IE6 you know..... there's so little of an interface there that there's nothing to dislike about it. It renders pages and that's about it.
http://oi50.tinypic.com/2nreemh.jpg
What can you dislike about this interface? :confused:
http://oi48.tinypic.com/anklmo.jpg
This is about as complex as IE9 gets on Windows phone 7.5. These days the only reason I ever use firefox is when something (like this forum) won't render properly in IE10 in Windows 8. Internet Explorer is actually rather good these days but if you use Opera or Firefox or Chrome or whatever you're hardly missing out to be fair, it's just a browser that displays stuff! I remember back on my N95 you could get mobile firefox and it was much better than the standard Symbian browser, but times have changed and all OS's have competent enough browsers. I think it was a mistake for microsoft to call their mobile browser IE because that holds negative connotations for some people. Rest assured the browser is great and ultra fast.

I'm in the habit of using Google on my PC but I use bing on my phone and other than when I'm trying to shop for something in which case I use froogle, then Bing comes up with the goods. But you can still pin google to your home screen if you like.

These devices are aimed at different ends of the market?!?!?!?!? The Lumia 920 is a flagship phone, just like a GS3 or an iPhone. It's got NFC, LTE, inductive charging and many other things that the current iPhone doesn't have.

No offence, but actually try a Windows phone for more than 2 seconds and you'll get it. In fact just watch some of the early comparison videos on a decent website like PocketNow and you'll begin to understand the design language and the reason why Windows Phone 7/8 is how it is. I've tried iOS for a good length of time with iPads and I just found it incredibly unintuitive compared to Windows Phone and Android.

Microsoft has always called their Internet browsers on phones IE but they have *nothing* in common with the desktop version except the name.

Time will tell how Windows 8 turns out. The big thing is the apps. If they can boast the same apps as iOS and Android (or better!) they will be on solid ground, if not...

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Originally Posted by henners88

I like the wireless charging mat for the new Nokia I have to add. Very innovative and its good to see.

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Innovative, no. They've been around for donkeys. Being integrated into the phone is new but this falls under 'obvious'.