New Phone

Originally Posted by El Saxo

I implore you not to do this! The reception on T-Mobile is shockingly bad in places where I used to get good coverage on O2/Orange. The data coverage is just as bad too, I get sod-all 3G/HSDPA coverage in most places except Manchester city centre which is a real PITA if you want to use lots of internet / push email / other data-heavy services etc on whichever handset you get. They also use a proxy for their mobile internet which can stop you using things like YouTube on your mobile.

Basically, the worst network I have ever been with!! (I have used all of the 'big 4' at some point or other - this is the first time I have used T-Mo and I will be going back to O2/Orange when my contract runs out.)

I could not disagree more with your sentiments !! horses for courses as o2 and voda are both rubbish up here and tmobile is excellent (also tmobile and orange are merging soon so should be even better)

http://www.trustedreviews.com/networ...r-Finalised/p1

Originally Posted by phil24_7

Any news on which networks the HTC/Google Nexus One will be on?

unlocked sim free as i believe so it will be expensive per say.. however tmobile is going to be doing contract cards for them in the US.

the 5th jan is supposed to be googles big release day so read the tech news on the 5th / 6th for more info

BTW tmobile coverage looks pretty good for warwick http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/c.../street-check/

Originally Posted by El Saxo

They also use a proxy for their mobile internet which can stop you using things like YouTube on your mobile.

just delete the proxy setting i did ohh and if you get the phone from mobile ph direct it will be sim free vanilla handset not tied to a provider so you get all the features (tmobile supplied ones from their shop have a somewhat crippled rom with bits missing) so be careful what you get.

Originally Posted by amarko5

just delete the proxy setting i did

I did that, but I shouldn't have had to in the first place really. I still stand by my comments about T-Mo - in my personal experience they are the worst of the networks when compared to Voda, O2 & Orange.

FWIW, O2 have been the best I have used so far, with Orange a close second (based mostly on use in & around Wigan, Manchester and Bristol). Interesting stuff about the merger though, hopefully things might improve.

I agree with what Mark says about getting an unbranded 'vanilla' handset, the operator-specific ROMs often have useful features disabled and other, less useful, stuff added which slows them down or makes them buggy.