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From: Mark Carver on 6 Aug 2010 07:09 About to give SWMBO my unlocked Nokia 5800, because my employers are giving me a new 'smart phone'. She currently has an SE W810 with a T-Mobile 'SIM Only 15' SIM, on a 1 month contract. I was going to put her SIM into the 5800. There are two 'bolt on' options for T-Mobile; 'Unlimited Internet' (well, 1 Gig) for a fiver a month, or 'Web-n-Walk unlimited' for 12:50/m. The TM T&C's state that the cheaper package cannot be to for 'peer to peer' (no problem), live messaging, or using the phone as a modem (also no problem but anyway, how would they know ?) I presume live messaging means no Facebook etc access, presumably bog standard IMAP/POP/SMTP mail is OK ? Are there any other surprises I should be aware of ? TIA
From: JL on 8 Aug 2010 04:07 Live messenger means the Windows Live Messenger (MSN) program. Facebook is fine on both packages. I believe that the lower package is blocked from having HSPA speeds so would be slower. I'm not 100% sure but I think its been mentioned a few times on here before. -- JL "Mark Carver" <mark.carver(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:8c28vaFtehU1(a)mid.individual.net... > About to give SWMBO my unlocked Nokia 5800, because my employers are > giving me a new 'smart phone'. > > She currently has an SE W810 with a T-Mobile 'SIM Only 15' SIM, on a 1 > month contract. > > I was going to put her SIM into the 5800. There are two 'bolt on' options > for T-Mobile; 'Unlimited Internet' (well, 1 Gig) for a fiver a month, or > 'Web-n-Walk unlimited' for 12:50/m. > > The TM T&C's state that the cheaper package cannot be to for 'peer to > peer' (no problem), live messaging, or using the phone as a modem (also no > problem but anyway, how would they know ?) > > I presume live messaging means no Facebook etc access, presumably bog > standard IMAP/POP/SMTP mail is OK ? Are there any other surprises I > should be aware of ? > > TIA
From: Mark Carver on 8 Aug 2010 12:34 JL wrote: > Live messenger means the Windows Live Messenger (MSN) program. Facebook > is fine on both packages. > > I believe that the lower package is blocked from having HSPA speeds so > would be slower. I'm not 100% sure but I think its been mentioned a few > times on here before. Ah, thanks for the heads up, yes, Googling that seems to be the case. I'm keen to stay on a T-Mobile network, simply because we live next door the TM base station, and reception of the other networks in the house is poor. I notice that Virgin do a SIM Only package with unlimited (3GB) access for 15UKP/m, is that crippled in any way, and does it allow HSPA connections ? -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. www.paras.org.uk
From: JL on 10 Aug 2010 04:37 I believe that Virgin's is full access and speeds. For the average person the lower T-Mobile package will be fine and still offers fast enough speeds to browse the web etc. Remember that Orange and T-Mobile will be merging their network over the next few months - when this happens you will have a good Orange signal in your house and you might then want to consider their offerings to. -- JL "Mark Carver" <mark.carver(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:8c84l3F7gkU1(a)mid.individual.net... > JL wrote: >> Live messenger means the Windows Live Messenger (MSN) program. Facebook >> is fine on both packages. >> >> I believe that the lower package is blocked from having HSPA speeds so >> would be slower. I'm not 100% sure but I think its been mentioned a few >> times on here before. > > Ah, thanks for the heads up, yes, Googling that seems to be the case. > > I'm keen to stay on a T-Mobile network, simply because we live next door > the TM base station, and reception of the other networks in the house is > poor. > > I notice that Virgin do a SIM Only package with unlimited (3GB) access for > 15UKP/m, is that crippled in any way, and does it allow HSPA connections ? > > -- > Mark > Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. > > www.paras.org.uk
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