Having lost my phone whilst away on business I was keen to get another one asap so just went to the shops to pick one.
I thought I had grabbed a bargain in the Orange 'clearance' stock a 3G Samsung i600 with qwerty keyboard for £50 on PAYG, actually it was less than this as I had some credit in my Orange PAYG 'phone fund'. OK I accept its an old model designed proably in 2005/06 and sold in 2007 and I don't care about flash looking phones with bleeding edge technology but this takes the biscuit:
1. It has Windows on it - what a load of bollocks, its slow to power up & respond to any key presses. Its also a WM5 and not much information about upgrading that without making it even slower.
2. No information or phone software updates on the Samsung web-site for this phone nor any capability to do so from the phone. My old Sony Ericsson did this automatically.
3. It only takes a max of 2GB on a microSD card, bollocks I had to return the Kingston 8GB card I bought for £15 but the guy didn't have a branded 2GB one so have to hunt one down at a decent price somewhere else.
4. All my contacts will only import if I import them into Outlook first. Great, so I am using Thunderbird for nothing then. Have found an alternative at dotfred.net but haven't tried it yet.
5. For those who have called me I saved their number anyway into the contacts. If I change the number to take the first 0 out and replace with +44 or, if the number is from abroad and I change the 00 to a + so I can dial out, then when I get a call from these people it can't match the number in the contacts so I don't know who is calling. WTF its the 21st century - all my old Nokia's and Sony Ericcsons had this capability donkeys years ago
Is this a WM5 restriction?
6. The salesman gleefully told me about the spare battery included and the out of phone charging box for the spare. Great I thought, until I tried to put the spare in the phone, turns out it is an extended battery back which needs a separate cover, this cover is supposed to be in the box but is missing
7. The signal strength meter goes up and down like a yo yo even from a stationary location. Previous phone was on Orange too and the signal strength never did that unless this is a 3G network problem. I guess I should borrow the OH's Blackberry on the same network and see.
8. The IE on WM5 can't even work properly on yahoo web mail, whenever I send an email it comes back with some error about not being a valid URL or cannot display the page. Even my old Sony Ericsson could do this.
I only bought it on Thursday, I'm still debating whether to take it back as it might be reconditioned (they sold it as new and it looks new) then I just just buy an el cheapo model for phone use only without losing valuable time critising its features as it won't have any! Then I can carry on losing it every year. But I really like the screen & keyboard on this phone and it has wifi on it so good for using in Macdonalds. Hmmmmmm.
I thought I had grabbed a bargain in the Orange 'clearance' stock a 3G Samsung i600 with qwerty keyboard for £50 on PAYG, actually it was less than this as I had some credit in my Orange PAYG 'phone fund'. OK I accept its an old model designed proably in 2005/06 and sold in 2007 and I don't care about flash looking phones with bleeding edge technology but this takes the biscuit:
1. It has Windows on it - what a load of bollocks, its slow to power up & respond to any key presses. Its also a WM5 and not much information about upgrading that without making it even slower.
2. No information or phone software updates on the Samsung web-site for this phone nor any capability to do so from the phone. My old Sony Ericsson did this automatically.
3. It only takes a max of 2GB on a microSD card, bollocks I had to return the Kingston 8GB card I bought for £15 but the guy didn't have a branded 2GB one so have to hunt one down at a decent price somewhere else.
4. All my contacts will only import if I import them into Outlook first. Great, so I am using Thunderbird for nothing then. Have found an alternative at dotfred.net but haven't tried it yet.
5. For those who have called me I saved their number anyway into the contacts. If I change the number to take the first 0 out and replace with +44 or, if the number is from abroad and I change the 00 to a + so I can dial out, then when I get a call from these people it can't match the number in the contacts so I don't know who is calling. WTF its the 21st century - all my old Nokia's and Sony Ericcsons had this capability donkeys years ago
Is this a WM5 restriction?6. The salesman gleefully told me about the spare battery included and the out of phone charging box for the spare. Great I thought, until I tried to put the spare in the phone, turns out it is an extended battery back which needs a separate cover, this cover is supposed to be in the box but is missing
7. The signal strength meter goes up and down like a yo yo even from a stationary location. Previous phone was on Orange too and the signal strength never did that unless this is a 3G network problem. I guess I should borrow the OH's Blackberry on the same network and see.
8. The IE on WM5 can't even work properly on yahoo web mail, whenever I send an email it comes back with some error about not being a valid URL or cannot display the page. Even my old Sony Ericsson could do this.
I only bought it on Thursday, I'm still debating whether to take it back as it might be reconditioned (they sold it as new and it looks new) then I just just buy an el cheapo model for phone use only without losing valuable time critising its features as it won't have any! Then I can carry on losing it every year. But I really like the screen & keyboard on this phone and it has wifi on it so good for using in Macdonalds. Hmmmmmm.
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