[Liverpool] Phone Advice

[oscillik]

i'm with O2, and i seem to get better reception than everyone else who seem
to be on T-Mobile (because everyone else seems to have a G1). I've had
hardly any signal issues with my N900 either, in fact the aerial on the N900
seems to be a lot better than both my Nokia E90 and on the Android Dev Phone
(when i had it).

Do not touch Orange at all - their data network is a pile of crap (I know
from experience, and i've  used it extensively in various parts of the UK).
I wouldn't know about Vodafone, but so far O2 has been the best network for
data connections, and they're pretty cheap too - you can usually just have a
Mobile Web bolt on for £7.50 and it's "unlimited".

2009/12/24 Dan Lynch <biglynchy at gmail.com>

> Greetings all,
>
> First of all let me wish you all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New
> Year. I wanted to ask some advice about mobile phone networks. You may have
> seen recently that I was lucky enough to be sent a new N900 from Nokia on
> trial. Originally I thought they'd only let me keep it a couple of weeks and
> I'm just using my PAYG Orange SIM card right now. It works but isn't
> brilliant on cost obviously. Yesterday I found out that I'll be allowed to
> keep the N900 for a few months to "try out the Maemo platform" were their
> words. So I'm looking at SIM-only contract deals with good data provision in
> the UK.
>
> It seems that 02 and T-Mobile have the best offers. Both of them have a
> plan for just under £20 a month with the same amount of included minutes,
> SMS and "unlimited" 3G Internet, the important part. They both seem to have
> 1gb per month fair usage policies, but I've heard they don't enforce them
> that heavily. I know some of you are with one or other of these networks so
> I wanted to ask for feedback on which you found best? Which has the best
> coverage in Liverpool and what are the data plans like? Anything I should
> know?
>
> So what's you're thoughts, T-Mobile of O2? Maybe you can suggest another
> network. Orange and Vodafone deals looked rubbish compared to these and
> Three SIMs don't work in the N900, not sure why.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Dan
>
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