Which of these phones?

I have a choice of phones and wanted some advice. Dunno how my copy
and paste from Excel below will come out - rubbish I would have
thought but hopefully you'll get the idea.

I've sorted the list by price. My company is buying this for me so a
zero cost phone saves me having to argue my case.

The main features I need are integrated hands free, a camera, pop3
email support and the ability to synchronise contact data with Outlook
via cable or bluetooth. I'm pretty sure all the phones have
bluetooth, a camera and integrated hands free. They probably all have
email. Not so sure about the Outlook synchronisation.

What would be superb, but I am not sure if any of these phones would
do it, is the ability to add a bluetooth keyboard and software to
enable me to VPN (Microsoft's VPN) to the office and run Remote
Desktop so I could connect to my PC / our servers. I think I could
persuade my company to fork out extra for such capability.

The ability to run SSH software so I could telnet to a remote Linux
server would also be great.

I don't want a bulky phone and obviously the less I have to recharge
it the better.

Top runners for me are the Nokia E50 because it's a smart phone (runs
Symbian, can open email attachments, etc).

The D600 is compact (sliding keypad) and has, apparently PC
synchronisation capabilities along with a v. good battery life.

The 6233 has calendar and contact synchronisation and USB.

The v3i is nice and slim.

Any comments/recommendations appreciated.


Make Model Price Stdby hrs Talk hrs
Samsung D600 0 420 5
Nokia 6233 0 340 5
Nokia 6230i 0 300 5
Motorola v3i 0 250 5.7
Nokia E50 0 216 6.7
Samsung E900 12 315 3.5
Nokia 6280 27 250 3
Samsung D900 59 250 3.5
SonyEriccson K800i 65 350 7

"Paul Welsh" <pwelsh@uk2.net> wrote in message
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>I have a choice of phones and wanted some advice. Dunno how my copy
> and paste from Excel below will come out - rubbish I would have
> thought but hopefully you'll get the idea.
>
> I've sorted the list by price. My company is buying this for me so a
> zero cost phone saves me having to argue my case.
>
> The main features I need are integrated hands free, a camera, pop3
> email support and the ability to synchronise contact data with Outlook
> via cable or bluetooth. I'm pretty sure all the phones have
> bluetooth, a camera and integrated hands free. They probably all have
> email. Not so sure about the Outlook synchronisation.
>
> What would be superb, but I am not sure if any of these phones would
> do it, is the ability to add a bluetooth keyboard and software to
> enable me to VPN (Microsoft's VPN) to the office and run Remote
> Desktop so I could connect to my PC / our servers. I think I could
> persuade my company to fork out extra for such capability.
>
> The ability to run SSH software so I could telnet to a remote Linux
> server would also be great.
>
> I don't want a bulky phone and obviously the less I have to recharge
> it the better.
>
> Top runners for me are the Nokia E50 because it's a smart phone (runs
> Symbian, can open email attachments, etc).
>
> The D600 is compact (sliding keypad) and has, apparently PC
> synchronisation capabilities along with a v. good battery life.
>


I dumped the D600 about a year ago for (amongst other irritations) the fact
that it couldn't act as a bluetooth modem for my PC. Of course the firmware
might have been updated since then.

Currently use the V3i and it works fine as a bluetooth modem can't comment
about Outlook sync, I'm pretty happy with it.

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Paul Welsh wrote:

> The 6233 has calendar and contact synchronisation and USB.

You can't have recurring calendar entries unless they are
daily/weely/monthly (I work a 6 week rota and had to put them all in
separatly) so for any recurring appointments already in outlook, it only
takes the first one.

Also, battery life is a quite poor, a couple of days at best.

Oh, and the battery cover falls off a lot.

Just my 2p