Who knows about mobile phones and plans and stuff?

[Ronin]

Everyone I know with an iPhone loves it, but the only thing to consider is that if you plan on doing any video calling, a possibility in business perhaps, they operate on a different network and you can only video call another iPhone.
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Ahhh nope. Facetime (the app) is iphone to idevice only. I have skype on mine and it works fine. In fact, I don't even have cell coverage at home and I do everything through wireless. Also setup an Ipad 2 for a client with a telecom microsim. Worked fine to mine on voda.

[Edbear]

Ahhh nope. Facetime (the app) is iphone to idevice only. I have skype on mine and it works fine. In fact, I don't even have cell coverage at home and I do everything through wireless. Also setup an Ipad 2 for a client with a telecom microsim. Worked fine to mine on voda.

Cool, thanks for the info!

[Ronin]

Cool, thanks for the info!

More info:

Fring. Great app. Voice calls (at good rates), including video calling, MSN, google talk etc for when your not at your computer.

2talk: We are on voip at home so I can use the cell as a wireless phone.

Skype: Works fine.

[shrub]

and i wouldn't own anything else. I am bloody hard on my phones and have killed a few thanks to drowning them riding, dropping them and generally being nasty. The Defy is waterproof and one of my favourite party tricks is dropping it in a pint of beer and pulling it out, wiping it and using it. I have thrown it as hard as I could at my wooden fence from 2 metres and it's undamaged and I have stomped on it. All of these simulating the life it WILL experience.

And it's not an iPhone, one of it's biggest features in my book. I hate Apple because they have become the Evil Empire they used to pretend to contest against and are even colluding with Microsoft to purchase patents to try and block Android developers (Android is open source).

[Scuba_Steve]

I would say iPhone is a good choice if you can be "gentle" with it, bloody awesome device works well does what it says pretty much, but I'd prefer not to be on vodascum.
Defy would be my next choice because it takes a fucking thrashing (from what I've seen/heard) & still comes back for more, plus IMO I'd rather deal with Telescum than Vodascum.
Galaxy is good but again need to be "gentle" and it's not gonna be as "satisfying" as the iPhone, but 2degrees is probably a better company to deal with than vodascum

at the end of the day unfortunately it does come down to your preference try the iPhone, Defy, Galaxy, see which you like to use best don't listen to the moron pushing the product they probably don't understand, go with what you like. None of them are "bad" models. You'll prob find the Galaxy & Defy very similar so it'll more come down to do you like the abuse ability of the Defy? would you prefer 1 mobile company over the other? and of course between iPhone & Defy/Galaxy do you like 1 OS better than the other? do you like the feel/function of 1 over the other etc? But try them all.

Oh FYI the iPhone also can pretty much work as an independent device nowadays almost no computer interaction is needed

[Ronin]

Not as fragile as you would think...

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/...drop-20110718/