The "New Toys" Thread - Page 314

geeman · October 5th, 2008, 04:00 PM

Sold my Nokia N95 and got these two to replace it:

http://pan.fotovista.com/dev/2/0/00192002/l_00192002.jpg

CyberMonkey · October 5th, 2008, 04:04 PM

cool spaceship. Can you make calls with it too? :p

Susurrate · October 5th, 2008, 06:01 PM

Battlestar Galactica the phone.

-Cpt. J.- · October 5th, 2008, 06:03 PM

http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inline/4902-front.jpg

Got sick of the 2day batterylife on my Nokia 6100.

NooDle · October 5th, 2008, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by geeman

Sold my Nokia N95 and got these two to replace it:

my sister got the exact same phone a while ago! is it as cool to use as it is to look at?

Yaco · October 5th, 2008, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by -Cpt. J.-

[image of phone]
Got sick of the 2day batterylife on my Nokia 6100.

Wow, 2 days?!?! Hahaha. What are you complaining about? Mine only lasts about half a day if I use it for music like I usually do.

CyberMonkey · October 5th, 2008, 07:46 PM

good for you! :p

Solberg · October 5th, 2008, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by knewman

Hey I've got one of those too. Hooked it up eSata, firewire, or USB? I'm sorry to say its the first WD drive that has ever crashed on me. It seems to get really hot, I keep a house fan blowing on it when I'm writing/reading large amounts of data and that seems to keep it happy.

It's connected via firewire and seems to stay quite cool.

teeb · October 5th, 2008, 08:21 PM

Logging onto my mobile provider's website, turns out I'm due an upgrade.

So :

New phone in the post for free (LG Viewty - 5mp camera, touchscreen etc).
And 10% off my monthly bill (making it £13.50 a month)
And I can still cancel anytime if I want!

I may just eBay the phone as there's nowt wrong with my SE W850i.

Only downside? The new phone's purple...

-Cpt. J.- · October 5th, 2008, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Yaco

Wow, 2 days?!?! Hahaha. What are you complaining about? Mine only lasts about half a day if I use it for music like I usually do.

Yes but I never used it for music/radio, and I don't talk on the phone for hours and hours. I could not let it slide. The batterylife was pathetic.

mgkdk · October 5th, 2008, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by teeb

Only downside? The new phone's purple...

Solution:

killpanda · October 5th, 2008, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by mgkdk

Solution:

I should test that on my N95, it's purple too images/smilies/biggrin.gif

geeman · October 5th, 2008, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by NooDle

my sister got the exact same phone a while ago! is it as cool to use as it is to look at?

Only annoyance I have encountered thus far is the screen, it has really bad viewing angles. Otherwise it's nice images/smilies/smile.gif

Shawn · October 6th, 2008, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by teeb

Logging onto my mobile provider's website, turns out I'm due an upgrade.

So :

New phone in the post for free (LG Viewty - 5mp camera, touchscreen etc).
And 10% off my monthly bill (making it £13.50 a month)
And I can still cancel anytime if I want!

Holy, only £13.50 a month? Does that include any minutes or is it pay per use?

The cheapest plans in Canada, for people who actually need to make a few calls a day, is about $50, minimum.

toma_alimosh · October 6th, 2008, 01:58 AM

^Shawn, don't you know how costly data transfer services are in Canada? Especially if they're wireless...
Our market for digital data (whether internet, cell phone, digital telephone, digital cable, satellite TV/radio) is absolutely shit. Oligopoly in it's worst form.

Shawn · October 6th, 2008, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by toma_alimosh

^Shawn, don't you know how costly data transfer services are in Canada? Especially if they're wireless...
Our market for digital data (whether internet, cell phone, digital telephone, digital cable, satellite TV/radio) is absolutely shit. Oligopoly in it's worst form.

Oh, I know how bad the situation is. I was just quoting what I'm on, which is a pretty basic package from Fido. You could go even cheaper, but you'd get maybe 200 minutes total and no services like CID or VM.

I didn't even bother with a data plan on my phone. Even if you have Safari or Opera on your phone, the experience is not worth the $50 or so you pay just for a limited data plan.

What can you do, Canada gets shafted on consumer issues like this even worse than Europe sometimes.

toma_alimosh · October 6th, 2008, 02:08 AM

^Well, at least we do have other industries that aren't as bad ... I'd hate to be shafted as often as Australia or Britain ... all import has to come on boats and stuff. images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Well, Britain still has the channel for some things, but Australia...

Shawn · October 6th, 2008, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by toma_alimosh

^Well, at least we do have other industries that aren't as bad ... I'd hate to be shafted as often as Australia or Britain ... all import has to come on boats and stuff. images/smilies/biggrin.gif

But they got the free PS3s from Sony! Didn't you read me ranting on the previous page too? images/smilies/biggrin.gif

P.S. FTR, the $6.95 system access fee sucks donkey turd.

toma_alimosh · October 6th, 2008, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawn

P.S. FTR, the $6.95 system access fee sucks donkey turd.

Oh, don't get me started on that.
They offer you a plan that's 35 CAD a month ... that's how they advertise it. But you have to pay 6.95 CAD for a "system access fee". So what's that for?

"Oh, we're going to charge you $35 for your phone usage every month ... and none of that is going to go towards the cost of using our network in any way. You have to pay extra for that." Then why the hell am I paying you people in the first place? Just so you can put it in a nice "profit margin" for your shareholders? images/smilies/mad.gif

You have to pay an extra 6.95 CAD just to be able to talk at all on the phone.

EDIT:
Why can't they include it in their damn advertised prices?
Same with taxes ... put them in the prices, people.
And why the hell hasn't the government gotten rid of the GST yet? It was supposed to be temporary, goddamnit!!

anTo · October 6th, 2008, 07:37 AM

since we're all ranting about Canada, internet packages are pretty brutal as well, my home service is like 1.5 mbps and it's like almost 40 bucks a month :\

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teeb Joined: Sep 23rd, 2005 Last Online: 01:21 AM Location: Glasgow, Scotland. Bah. Age: 21 Posts: 2,368 Rep Power: 54	Logging onto my mobile provider's website, turns out I'm due an upgrade. So : New phone in the post for free (LG Viewty - 5mp camera, touchscreen etc). And 10% off my monthly bill (making it £13.50 a month) And I can still cancel anytime if I want! I may just eBay the phone as there's nowt wrong with my SE W850i. Only downside? The new phone's purple... __________________ ...I'm meant to put something here?

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anTo Joined: Jan 15th, 2007 Last Online: 02:38 AM Location: Delta, BC Posts: 186 Rep Power: 0	since we're all ranting about Canada, internet packages are pretty brutal as well, my home service is like 1.5 mbps and it's like almost 40 bucks a month :\ __________________ Audi fanboi