Mobile Phone questions thread

[lcz128]

The blackberry bold is typicallly pretty good - used my mate's (work) bberry and it's cool - most people generally like it too - big plus is the qwerty over the pearl of course

I am planning to get me an iphone come september! wahah! Tell me how you go mr. paul! I am jumping onto that boat soon too!

[sifun]

e71 is thinner in girth than e63 and no gps..
U can get it on optus for 49 a mnth no handset repayments

iphone prices are up on the optus price for the 8gb iphone 3g or the new models.
They include some data usage each month

[Paulbot]

So far, the best iPhone deal I've seen is:

iPhone 3G S 16GB free on the $69 Vodaphone cap, includes $400 talk, TXT and 1GB data

It's very tempting...

[Saintly]

http://personal.optus.com.au/web/oca...&site=personal

I thought this is better than the $69 vodafone cap... thought you only get $350 txt, talk and 500mb data

[jaydisc]

I'm on the Optus $59 cap, and while I consider myself to be a HEAVY internet user, I don't think I've ever broken 250MB. That being said, I've busted the $350 in calls a few times, but that's tough to quantify from person to person. Also, now that the iPhone supports tethering (using the phone as a 3G modem for your laptop), I expect to use more, but even then, that will be rare.

The other benefit, at least at the time I signed up for Optus, was that Optus offered me a 1 year contract but charged me more for the phone. The phone ended up costing me $400 over the year (16GB), but I'm out of contract at the end of this month and that has tremendous value to me.

[Paulbot]

Hmm. The Vodafone pricing matches their offer for the Nokia E71 (and a bunch of other phones) so it would come down to which phone I like best.

I don't think I will go over the call cap, but the Internet one is the one I wonder about. Browsing on the train, apps like the maps that use downloaded data, it could all add up.

Saintly your link doesn't work for me. Is it the $62 (49 + 13 repayments) one? That's 250 MB downloads though?

[Saintly]

Saintly your link doesn't work for me. Is it the $62 (49 + 13 repayments) one? That's 250 MB downloads though?

Okay... looks like they have the new deal on with the new iPhone 3Gs and they have removed the old 16Gb iPhone... head over to http://www.optus.com.au/iphone

It's a case of selecting the cap plan level and see the benefits (or not), not to mentioned cost as well.

The new 16G is available on the $79 for $0 upfront, while the old 8G is available on $59 for $0 upfront.

[Paulbot]

Telstra's pricing is bad, I'm steering away from them.

If I go iPhone I will get the 16G new model as it does seem a better phone.

[Saintly]

or you can go the new 32G on $99 timeless (better value than $119 timeless!)

[jaydisc]

I would strongly recommend the new iPhone if possible, as the latest software on my 3G model took a speed hit.

As far as data allowance, trust me, you'll have a hard time using 500MB.