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Mobile Phone Decisions

by jcf. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.

Last week I dropped my P800 3 meters onto a concrete floor. The screen broke so I sent it in for repairs. Today I got a call that the repair is going to cost over CHF300 – a new P800 can be had for about CHF 900.

While I like the P800, it has enough warts that I’m considering an alternative. Right now I have re-lived my Handspring Visor and my old R520. I really, really, really liked that I had all my adresses on the phone and being able to call any number without further syncing.

So I’m in a state of dilemma now:

  • bite the bullet, repair the P800 and stay with it – not caring about the warts it has
  • Bite the bullet, repair the P800 and then sell it on ebay and get:
    • A Treo600 (meaning that I have to change my contract to a new provider (which is going to cost me quite a sum) and I don’t have Bluetooth
    • Buy a Palm T3 which seems to be just around the corner, and a cheap mobile phone (T68i)
  • Something entirely different?
What would you recommend?

One comment on ‘Mobile Phone Decisions’

  1. vowe says:
    2003-09-26 at 13:30

    Let’s assume you did not have the P800.

    You could get yourself any BT-enabled Tungsten and work with the R520. Note that you can send a whole category of contacts via BT. If you don’t like the R520 any more, replace it with a T68i. Very nice phone. This is basically my setup.

    The Treo 600 will have other warts (like no Grafitti, sp?). Like the P800 it is going to be on the big and heavy side.

    Now that you do have the P800, I would have that repaired and then hop on the next wave in a year or so.

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