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I use GSMArena to determine the grunt of all the phones. Then I try and determine what the strongest phone is I can get for close to free or with relatively small pay-in on my contract (a Talk240) and then I check professional reviews to find out whether the phone is any good or whether it has any glaring problems which I may or may not ignore depending on my wants. And then lastly I check XDA-Developers to see how the unofficial support is for the phone just in case.

No need to check what the everyday dude who got the phone thinks about it since the specs do more than enough talking on their own. Back in the day yeah one would have needed to check cuz they were all weak yet some managed to run this or that better than others and they all had their odd quirks. With droids however they're much more like computers since android is more like a standardised OS which makes the grunt underneath the OS matter most and once that's up to scratch the phone is good regardless of what some silly american thinks.
Some dude saying wow the SGS2 is awesome on some site doesn't help me when the hardware already more than tells me that.

If you can't decide between two phones with similar grunt then it comes down to which is older since the older is likely to have less support and which brand name you trust more to give you a reliable phone (something the dude who commented on amazon who popped on to say how awesome it is after he turned it on for the first time can't tell you). Then after that a quick check to see which has better unofficial support just to make sure you're not setting yourself up for a dead end and done and you're done and know which phone you want to get.
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The hardware specs doesn't tell you about the build quality of the phone & when a customer review mentions a phone that's burning his/her hand due to overheating issues, poor reception, poor wifi, etc. I take note.

You don't get that kinda info from phone specs. ;)
 
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Stuff like that is usually covered by either the professional review (they have to live with the phone for like a week) or some sort of special report like this http://blog.gsmarena.com/htc-sensat...re-there-different-versions-of-the-sensation/


I suppose I just have a bad opinion of customer reviews after seeing stuff like a dude complaining about how the speaker on portable docking station is bad cuz it couldn't supply a whole massive warehouse with sound or bashing a product for out of spec use or all manner of other idiocy. I very rarely check up on them and only if I can't find sufficient professional reviews.


edit: Just checked and there's like one customer review on amazon for the Neo, very useful lol
 
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SCHUMI-4-EVA said:
Stuff like that is usually covered by either the professional review (they have to live with the phone for like a week) or some sort of special report like this http://blog.gsmarena.com/htc-sensat...re-there-different-versions-of-the-sensation/


I suppose I just have a bad opinion of customer reviews after seeing stuff like a dude complaining about how the speaker on portable docking station is bad cuz it couldn't supply a whole massive warehouse with sound or bashing a product for out of spec use or all manner of other idiocy. I very rarely check up on them and only if I can't find sufficient professional reviews.


edit: Just checked and there's like one customer review on amazon for the Neo, very useful lol
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There's three on www.amazon.co.uk : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Ericss...1JTW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315652570&sr=8-1 *

I also have found good info here : http://www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk/index.htm , but they are slow to update with new phones.

The customer reviews saved me from wasting a ton of cash on the iPhone 4, as I'm left-handed and hate bumpers on phones.

Even after Steve Jobs had the big public stunt to say it's not true, the customers were saying something else and then a YouTube video showed the reception flaw to be true, in all its gory details.

*You'll also see that it's not just one-line reviews & not written by 16-year olds, like you find on gsmarena.com .
 
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Ah your google-fu is superior to mine.

Also avoiding the iPhone is easy for most Windows users since they hate iTunes. That's gonna change with iOS5 but the iPhone4 is too old at this stage anyways.
 
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Talk 75 is 189 so the +200 per month he mentioned would make it 389 exlcuding out of contract stuff like data or SMSs or calls above the 75 included minutes.
 
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Hi there OC
What is the total monthly cost on talk75s with samsung galaxy s2
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I would not recommend the Talk or Business Call packages.

The best package is a TopUp contract, cos you can use it to buy data and sms bundles.

Only reason I have it, is because I've got dual-sim.
 
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That depends since the lower top up contracts all have higher charges and if you make calls you burn through the money much faster than if you make calls on included minutes. So if you tend to make a lot of calls it makes sense to take a Talk contract rather than a Top Up contract.
 
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Why is Vodacom so expensive compared to RB Mobile, 8ta and even MTN?
 
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There was someone here that was looking for the Samsung Galaxy S+

I cant remember who it was now...but here it is

Shipment due on the 16th of September 2011.
 
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oc, any idea when the N9 stock should be sufficiently proliferated through vodacom shops? I see on the deals book that it says mid-september but would like to know whether that means this week or next?
 
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oc, any idea when the N9 stock should be sufficiently proliferated through vodacom shops? I see on the deals book that it says mid-september but would like to know whether that means this week or next?
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The N9 is not available for us to order on the system. I have no news on this.
 
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UnUnOctium said:
http://redonlinepubprint.ceros.com/vodashop/september2011/page/1/

Check out page 5. Are they trying to do a massive launch or is it just vodacom being the cruel buggers that they are and trying to give us false hope? :p
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All I am saying is that it is not yet available for us to order on the system..meaning that the pricing and stock codes etc have not yet been done. I am not saying that it is not coming. My stores have tried to order it from me (I process their orders for them on the system)...most likely they saw it on booklets also and wanted it in their store so long...but I had to tell them we can not order it /yet.
 
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ocleroux any word on the Nokia 700 and 701 and SE ray? They seem to have all started shipping internationally
 
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You're obviously not lurking GSMArena enough :p
They're the first stock Symbian Belle phones that Nokia just released.

Also by SE ray I meant the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray.
 
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