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DAVEf · dot.org vip Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 21458

Isn't it all about peer status. Remember kids demanding their parents bought them the "right" trainers. Ah, the happy good ol' days Razz

Though I think the phone snobbery thing extends into folk's twenties (or worse).

While I'm here, my neighbours' child has been offered an unlocked HTC Hero for £70 (apparently in good condition) and, due, it seems, to her parents being over 40 and therefore too old to be trusted, she has asked my advice. Probably due to me being so technologically ITK etc. Except I've never had nor used an Android phone (gone straight to Windows), know no-one who uses one as all my (incredibly stupid) friends and family are besotted with Apple and I only know what it says on that Internet thingy (which can, believe it or not, sometimes be of little use). Should I tell her to ask a teacher for advice (as if)? or what?

deepseahoop · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:53 am Post subject:

How anyone would want to look at something with the word Samsung on it all day long is beyond me
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SM · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:29 am Post subject:

£600?

Can't you practically buy a brand new iPhone 5 for that much... Confused

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QueensParkDangers · Level 1 dot.orger Joined: 12 Aug 2012 Posts: 259

The Galaxy SII is the best for your money, ICS 4.04 now and Jelly Bean 4.1 not far off, or you can just root it and drop a custom rom on it.
You can snap one up for £200 now, bargain!
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Hillhoopm · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:01 pm Post subject:

£10.00, pay as you go a month for me, when I go mad. If I want to go somewhere I either remember the place or look at a map.

Hunter S Thompson · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:06 pm Post subject:

I get this picture of people stumbling aimless about like the zombies in The Night of the Living Dead before we all had mobiles.
But wonderful as these phones are, nothing much has changed.
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Lunar Jetman · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:20 pm Post subject: Re: i phone 4 for sale

People get so worked up at the Apple v Android debate. Surely it's all down to personal choice?

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Hillhoopm · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:33 pm Post subject:

I'm rubbish at it Ux - that's all! Wink

I had a compass in the sole of my shoe when I was a nipper, Tufs, I think they were, either that or Clarks - didn't do me no harm.

UxbridgeR · Level 5 dot.orger Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 5828

I'm much the same. Always been PAYG, and I've had the same phone for 6 years. I keep thinking I'd like a smartphone, but I just can't bring myself to pay £400-500 for the privilege.
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DAVEf · dot.org vip Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 21458

Well thanks for all the requested Android/HTC Hero advice. think

I'll tell the kid to forget it and go and amuse her music teacher instead. She might get a new iphone out of him (or the press).