In Search Of Advice

[drplokta]

I may need to buy a new mobile phone. And the old one was getting pretty old anyway -- nearly three years old, and battery not taking the charge like it used to.

Anyway, infamous technophobe that I am, I've not really been keeping up with the mobile phone market. What should I get?

Must-have features are:

• Tri-band
  
• Predictive text messaging (I doubt you can get a phone without it, mind you)
  
• Modem with IR and USB connectivity for use from my Clié and Powerbook
  
• Supported by Apple iSync
  
• Works on Virgin Mobile
  

Nice-to-have features are:

• Camera/MMS
  
• GPRS web browser
  
• Small
  
• Light
  
• Anything else I've forgotten
  

Comments

[neilf.livejournal.com]

Having just checked, only one Nokia, the 3650, is tri-band. It seems to meet your other requirements if you can cope with a circular keypad!

Having checked however, the 3650 is not an officialy available phone from Virgin, which would mean buying one off contract which is likely to be rather expensive as it's a fairly recent model.

In actual fact none of the phones on the Virgin list feature on the iSync list. I suspect an unlocked second user T68i from Computer Exchange on TCR may be your best bet. Just make sure it's covered on your home contents insurance.