shadamehr wrote:Why?(to all individual aspects of your post)
Because A. I like them. B. I write phone applications and use them as test devices, and C. They are in a drawer because I am currently working on an application for a non-symbian platform.
Unregistered wrote:Because A. I like them. B. I write phone applications and use them as test devices, and C. They are in a drawer because I am currently working on an application for a non-symbian platform.
I forgot D. The 6 months free internet SIM has gone into my current test phone.
PACKAGE/INFORMATION UPDATE (as promised Rafe).
MY order arrived yesterday, and it might be helpful if I were to make a few observations....
Firstly, there was no free 8GB Micro SD card in the box, the packet or even the phone.
Secondly, the phone, despite being bought with the requisite �10 airtime, and coming with a letter stating that "As I had bought it with �10 airtime, this had therefore already been credited ot the account, so that my phone would be ready to go out of the box..."
Well alas, not only had the �10 airtime not been credited, the line had not even arrived activated.
So neither of these issues were deal breakers, as they were all easily resolved by way of a call to T-Mobile, but this meant me ringing up Contract Customers Services, from my other number, as the line that arrived was not even active of course, so I couldn't use that.
This then meant that Offshore Contract Customer Services had to put me through to PAYG Offshore Customer Services.
I then had to explain it all again to them, who replied telling me they would need to put me back through to UK Web Sales Team. So first, I got them to 'register' my details as the account holder for the new number that had come, to make any future calls easier, before letting them transfer me.
When I got through to Web Sales Team, I got the one based at Doxford Park, Sunderland, near to where I live, and the girl could not have been more helpful or pleasant.
She wholly apologised for the cards not having been sent with the phone - an issue they were aware of having happened for I and others, and arranged for one to be sent out to me direct, no signature required.
She then arranged activation, and credit to, my line, but said that PAYG Customer Service should have picked up on the fact I had also told them my 6 months free internet, and my 1 month free sms, had not been added, and they should have done this then.
She said she would activate both of these for me instead though.
But as it happened, even though she did these for me herself, it transpired that as soon as she actually activated my line, I received numerous various Text Messages fro T-mobile, welcoming me, giving me info on how to check my balance, and so on, and then one confirming my �10 balance, and then after this I automatically received two text messages, one onviting me to opt in to 30 days free text, by sending a relavant reply to a certain number, and then just after this, another inviting me to opt in to 6 months free interent, by doing the same thing.
So had she not authorised them direct, I would have received the opt in messages anyway myself, once the line activated.
So after all this, I happily have a nice shiny new Nokia 5230, �10 credit on my line, one month's full free sms, and six months full free Internet. As well as an 8GB MicroSD still to arrive (if like my last one I got free from T-Mo with my E72, it was a decent brand, high speed one). Plus I have ten music tracks free too.
GET THIS THOUGH - the internet speed is full/true 3.5G/HSDPA as indicated by the 3.5G indicator when downaloading data.
This being the fact that it is on PAYG, depite the new T-Mobile Internet Bundle on full CONTRACT being just at 3G only, unless you get an Android device, which you may very well not know, as they don't highlight this, but on accounts with an Android device, you supposedly get Web n Walk Plus instead of Web n Walk basic (or whatever it's new name is now). Not sure I beleive that, but the bottom line is I get 3.5G with this PAYG line, and my two sons only get 3g only, on the two CONTRACT T-Mobile lines I have with them...
Go figure.
A final few observations...
I think this is an incredible deal and then some, and the the phone itself seems very decent, is quite lightweight, and the screen seems more responsive than any old WinMo Resistive device I ever used, though as well known, Nokia's Touch Interface as it currently stands, before it's big overhaul, is indeed somewhat clunky, messy, and not intuitive.
The battery is a 1350maH affair, so should give some good usage methinks, in a phone of this sort, without wi-fi, widgets, etc.
There is no stylus with a 5230, as I believe there is with the 5800, but the plectrum lanyard does still come in the box.
Additionally, the battery cover of the 5230 is the full size of the back of the device, and is removable. So as an added bonus, they give you three different colours you can change, in the box - a bright metallic pink/red, a light metallic grey/white, and a dark steel grey metallic one.
So not bad there either.
And you also get �8 credit/code for Nokia Music as part of this phone bundle deal, which is enough for ten tracks from the Nokia Music Store.
So all in all, barring a few hitches that a call resolved no problem, an excellent deal, that I am very happy with indeed.
Nokia Ovi Maps 3.04 Beta, the latest, got installed when it arrived, and UK maps added to a temporary 2GB card inside, until my 8GB one arrives.
And I made a decent journey out to the Countryside yesterday to pick up my eldest son who had been orienteering, and the sat-nav was excellent.
Opinion?
GREAT OFFER/PACKAGE!
Posting this with a nokia 5230. Using orange for the cheap internet and good signal. Phone does everything it says on the box and more, free sat nav particularly good. Camera not up to much, stopped working in fact, but i'm not a photographer so i don't miss it. Great phone for the price and cheap to run. Recomended!