An end to phone tribulations?

Today I visited the Vodafone shop with Anthony — the summary of their points was “get this £40 tariff, then get an £18 text bundle on top, pay for your 3G data, and pay £150 for the phone”. Yeah, right.

Instead, I went back to Orange's retention department, who managed to slip me through between retentions and upgrades — I get to keep my old contract (200 minutes, 500 texts, £30 per month), get a 6630 for £120 (the in-store price; normally a retention would put the price up to £195!), and get the 3G bundle on top (50MB data, 60 minutes of video calls per month).

The choice of the phone was, of course, a problem — they had no news at all about the V800 (my preferred phone; non-smart, but megapixel camera, video calling, smaller than the Z1010, and works with iSync), so it was Z1010 (big, VGA camera, cheap (£50), works flawlessly with iSync, well-built) vs. 6630 (Nokia, not enough RAM, can't video call without buying a stand, but Series 60, quite compact, 1.23MP camera, included 64MB card, and reportedly very good, but more expensive).

So: Orange has much better in-store support, and were far more willing to put the effort in to get me a good deal. It's just their range of phones that is lacking. Still, I'm sure I'll be happy with the 6630 — I can start hacking together all sorts of Python apps!

Posted at 2005-01-15 07:16:55 by Richard • Link to An end to phone tr…
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