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Im after a PDA/Phone to replace my K700 and Zire 71.
So far the best I have seen is the imate Jamin.
I am a little overwhelmed with all the options that seem to be available, i understand than other companies like imate also make version of the HTC Prophet. Is the imate the best version?, can you even get the other versions here in New Zealand?
Also, Is there anything similar to the Jamin coming out soon that I should wait for?
I like the Jamin because it doesn't have the keyboard but I have heard the processor is a little underpowered etc.
Perhaps if i mention what I'm hoping to do with the device you guys can let me know if it will work.
Obviously phone calls + sms + basic diary / pim stuff.
The fact that the Jamin has MS office is a nice bonus, would be useful for my uni stuff.
I also have wifi at home so it would be great if the phone could use my home internet connection while at home to save on gprs charges (a whole other issue! :D). And we also have some wifi around uni now as well so being able to connect to that would be good too. [As an aside, if i set up all the connections, will the device use wifi instead of gprs automatically?]
Skype / MSN Messenger / Both would be nice too. I have heard that some of these phones struggle with Skype. Is this because of the slow GPRS connection (i think the $2000 jas jar is the only one with 3G!, Stupid!) or because of the processor?
For email, i use Gmail. At the moment I check my email on my K700 using the mobile version (http://m.gmail.com) but I assume you can set it up in outlook to automatically receive it - this is one of the main reasons i'm upgrading. Will i have any problems with this [and another aside - can you tell it to NOT download emails from certain address? I don't need newsletters etc while i'm on my mobile].
Most of these questions are mainly because I haven't actually used WM5.0 before, i know what I want it to do but I don't really know if it does do that and how.
Now about the plans. At the moment i'm on prepay. I probably use about $20/month on my phone however if i can use my phone for more than just calls/sms then i would be willing to spend more money. How much data would the email checking use a month (as far as i have learnt from reading around, the new push email stuff simply checks to see if it is still connected every so often rather than checking for new messages)? The 1GB/ month deal is something that has been needed for a long time but 1GB is much more than i would need and $50/month is more than i could afford just for data. Why cant they bring out a 200MB plan for $10-$15 or even a 100MB plan for $10. :D
Finally price... Being a student I'm not exactly rich :) but if its going to replace my phone and my pda I can afford a decent price. Techoni (http://www.techoni.com.au/), where I bought my K700 from a couple of years ago has the phone for AU$859.95 (about NZ$950) which is a lot nicer than the Vodafone price of $1400 (yes it just went up $200). I think they can also take off the australian GST if they are sending it overseas. Has anyone seen the phone elsewhere for cheaper or have a good local company they like that has it for a similar price?
Thanks for any help,
Peter
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