3G is not all it's cracked up to be

Faster data, sure, but still not fast enough to be used seriously unless you have HSDPA and not many operators are offering that at a decent price yet.

I find that football scores, etc, can be looked up quickly enough on the BBC WAP site over GPRS - you don't need UMTS or HSDPA for that (or WiFi).

UMTS coverage is also not as complete as GSM and given the way it works there is far more chance of dropped calls, etc. Therefore, even though I am in a situation where I can pretty much choose which phone I want for free, I chose a 2G one, as it has WiFi, Windows Mobile (great for office documents) and a better in-built GPS receiver than most 3G phones. And looks cooler.

One nice trick by the way - I run Skype on it at home over the WiFi network. Would be a cool trick anyway if I paid for my phone bill.

Posted By: Steve in Holland on May 1st 2007 at 14:28:41

Message Thread

My old Nokia is finally giving up the ghost (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 13:21:55
- be careful with new nokias (General Chat) - lurd, May 1, 14:12:09
- Tell you what BC, one of these, plus (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 1, 14:03:50
  - Ugly as sin that mother (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 14:06:43
    - 3G you mean ? No... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 1, 14:18:14
      - Yeah, 3G ... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 14:24:04
        
        3G is not all it's cracked up to be (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 1, 14:28:41
- I have one of these (General Chat) - phrankin, May 1, 13:45:28
  - just be careful with your joysticky thing... (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 1, 13:51:02
    - Always good advice. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, May 1, 13:52:40
  - That's the workhorse around the office these days which would suggest it's OK (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 1, 13:47:29
    - Its a great camera phone!! (General Chat) - phrankin, May 1, 13:49:19
      - Don't care about the camera! (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 13:51:29
    - I think I will go out & buy 5 & then sack everyone then. (n/m) (General Chat) - lovely old job, May 1, 13:48:37
- Try this one (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 1, 13:45:03
- Don't touch LG... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 1, 13:42:40
- Gosh, a mobile phone discussion and I can finally join in because I've now got one! (General Chat) - Old Git, May 1, 13:39:39
  - Oh, the bastard thing doesn't say what it is (General Chat) - Old Git, May 1, 13:42:58
    - That's the puppy! (General Chat) - Old Git, May 1, 13:45:51
- the joystick thingy on my first Sony Ericcson did break (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 1, 13:37:44
- This one: (General Chat) - Dog, May 1, 13:33:21
- Never go Motorola... (General Chat) - Brom, May 1, 13:28:50
  - Yup, piss poor according to people I know who've had them (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 13:52:07
  - * Genesis * (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 1, 13:29:47
    - Nothing to do with how they look... (General Chat) - Brom, May 1, 13:30:52
      - I've had a Pebl for well over a year and that is a lie (General Chat) - malkybarkid, May 1, 13:32:41
        
        Meanall, my PEBL has run for 14 months with no probs. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 1, 13:35:30
        
        What's PEBL? (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 13:53:14
        
        Is it this? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 13:56:53
        
        iirc they were advertised by having the black one fall out of a lady's handbang (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 1, 14:03:36
        
        That was dropped on a beach or suffen. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 1, 14:10:29
        
        why would a turtle shag a pebble? (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 1, 14:21:52
        
        Thassit. Get the black one, the others are well birdy. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 1, 13:58:12
        
        So are the black ones. The missus has one. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 1, 14:01:09
        
        Mine plays the Grandstand theme tune. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 1, 14:04:13
        
        Its a pleb that cant spell (n/m) (General Chat) - DiscoDaleGordon, May 1, 13:53:48
        
        Motorola are shit, as Brom says, but the PEBL is actually good quality. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 1, 13:43:25
      - Much like Phil Collins' lyrics. (n/m) (General Chat) - Dog, May 1, 13:31:52
        
        no, you're thinking of deaf monkeys... (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 1, 13:33:16
        
        Shouldn't affect their typing? (n/m) (General Chat) - Dog, May 1, 13:33:57
        
        no, but unlike Beethoven (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 1, 13:38:56
        
        But you need infinite of them if you want any good typing done. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 1, 13:36:19
        
        Or 9 (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, May 1, 13:46:22
- The Nokia Ectoplasm 666I is good. (n/m) (General Chat) - lovely old job, May 1, 13:27:14
  - foolish accountant (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, May 1, 13:31:21
- I have this fucker... (General Chat) - malkybarkid, May 1, 13:24:31
  - Yeah, I like the idea of the cool retro styling and the colour is sooooo now (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 13:50:58
  - is that K9 (n/m) (General Chat) - lovely old job, May 1, 13:46:29
  - Outcooled (General Chat) - CB41, May 1, 13:27:47
    - no way homes, trim is in Esse (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, May 1, 13:30:43
    - double bagger (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 1, 13:29:12
  - phwoooooar (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 1, 13:25:34

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