Mobile phone recommendations.

Maybe ebay. But Windows Mobile isn't good. Slow and buggy.

I'm also looking at Nokia 5800, but I have heard that it has some reliability problems, anyone else heard anything that?

I checked up on this, and the 5800 has software issues at the start that made 3G spotty for the US but that was last January and solved long time ago. There has been some software updates ever since. Most phones anyway, require updates on the operating system software, no one is perfect right at the start.

The 5800 is one of Nokia's better supported phones, because they have been selling a lot of it anyway, at the ratio of nearly 1 million a month from what I gathered, as Nokia just released their financial results yesterday. Its not up to iPhone in quality, but its also a lot cheaper without a contract and no carrier lock. I tried one out myself, the browsing quality can be described as better than average, not though with iPhone standards, has good music and appears to be an excellent video player.

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Those issues are long gone, and there has been updates. The 5800 has sold quite well so far, past a million a month globally.

The HTC Hero seems something to be worth waiting for though and I think its a better smartphone.

I had a decent sony phone, but it got busted up so had to buy a cheap cell until I decide what phone to get. Nokia 5800 or any smart phone with atleast wifi is what I need, an HTC phone would be nice, but here in Taiwan they are only in chinese, and well, my chinese is pretty spotty.

Didn't read if anyone talked about the LG Shine, but I woke up today and found my phone useless. For the past few month, my LG Shine would just turn off by itself. This morning I could only make a call to my home phone. I am going to the ATT store to get it replaced. Apparently this LG Shine is actually really bad. DO NOT GET IT!

LG Shine sucks. Mine still works, but after having so many dropped calls, I replaced it. I would suggest sticking to Nokia next time for the low to mid end.

Apparently the ATT noobs think it is my battery that is screwing up. I am going to get a new phone from them in November even if my phone is fine, this way I can abuse my warranty.

Using Skype alongside cell phones

I was wondering how many forum members use Skype and how do you find it?
I heard that with the Iphone and the Androids one can access Skype.,thus making it cheaper for international calls etc, but personally I dont go out of the way to use cell phones to make mobile calls. Some people claim that there is increasing evidence between brain tumors and heavy cell phone for voice calls usage.
It appears we are at the stage like cigarette smoking was at in the 50's on on whether cell phones usage causes cancer.

bladerunner..please use this thread to discuss any type of cell phone usage.

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