Recommend a business fone

[iMav]

As the title says, my uncle needs a business phone with the highest priority features are:

1. email viewing and sending - with attachments, excel,word,pdf etc
2. wi-fi
3. Quad band
4. Internet browsing
5. good battery life

If i am correct most of these would be in some phone with Win Mo.

So any help with model nos. would be highly appreciated.

Thank you.

[gxsaurav]

Nokia E51 or E61

[ico]

What is your budget??

I think you may also want to edit your Office Documents in your fone, so you definitely need Symbian....

If your budget is 18K, so get N82....its the ultimate fone with everything you need. It has Wi-fi and a good camera with Xenon flash & AutoFocus....+ with Symbian, you can install a wide range of applications you'll be needing....

For emailing, there are a large range of softwares available for Symbian.

If you want you can go with HTC fones which have Windows Mobile, but their camera and music playback isn't good. But surely, no fone can beat them in their email features.

[Pathik]

Get a symbian. They have a better default browser than WM6 fones. The e51has a small screen. Else it is perfect. The e61i has a slow proccy. Get a n82 or n81 or 5700 and install Office & stuff on it.

[ico]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

Nokia E51 or E61

E61 doesn't have a camera....

E51 is also good if you need a 12K business fone. It has Wi-fi and a 2mp camera without Flash, AutoFocus......Also, the screen is small.

[iMav]

Originally Posted by gagandeep

What is your budget??

high & flexible

Originally Posted by gagandeep

If you want you can go with HTC fones which have Windows Mobile, but their camera and music playback isn't good. But surely, no fone can beat them in their email features.

camera & music playback is not of much importance, music playback is not required actually.

no third party softwares should be required to be installed. Or it should be very minimum something like pdf needs a separate viewer, that will do

My uncle has an inclination towards HTC too, any specific model

[Pathik]

Originally Posted by gagandeep

E61 doesn't have a camera....

E51 is also good if you need a 12K business fone. It has Wi-fi and a 2mp camera without Flash, AutoFocus......Also, the screen is small.

IMO he meant the e61i. The e61 isnt available in India.

Originally Posted by iMav

high & flexible


camera & music playback is not of much importance, music playback is not required actually.

no third party softwares should be required to be installed. Or it should be very minimum something like pdf needs a separate viewer, that will do

My uncle has an inclination towards HTC too, any specific model

HTC P3470. BTW Budget?

[iMav]

budget:

give me 1 option in: ~20k & one with reasons satisfying a budget of ~28k, paisa bahut hai uncle ke pass, I will only have to show him that a 28k has value with regards to features over a 22k

[Pathik]

HTC Touch Diamond! Launching soon. 27.5k.

[ico]

Originally Posted by Pathik

HTC Touch Diamond! Launching soon. 27.5k.

Yeah...Go for this....

But if you don't want to wait, then get HTC Touch Cruise....

BTW HTC P3470 doesn't have Wi-fi....

[swordfish]

Touch diamond is yet too come and may be its too flashy for your uncle as he doesnt need that much all..

You uncle can choose Touch criuse .
or he can also go for HTC P3452 (touch).. its simple small and having all basic features..

[dreamcatcher]

tel him to wait for the XPERIA X1...jokes apart..the diamond does not have a qwerty keypad...rather no keypad at all..so will be difficult..
else if u are into windows mobile..the TTYN II should do it just right..but its laggy and battery life is not that great...

show him the SE p1i if he wants touchscreen with a super keypad..battery life is brilliant..

AAH!!!i completely forgot..BLACKBERRY ne one?ne one???

[coolpcguy]

P1i - quad band, WiFi, Quick Office, pDf reader in built. Nice large 240x320 screen, and touchscreen, and a QWERTY keypad to boot. 3.2Mpx cam, with AF. All at 15k

Disadvantage: No EDGE

[iMav]

What about email service? Blackberry is also an option

[BBThumbHealer]

^ Go For BlackBerry Pearl @ 24999/- .... Its having all the features which ur uncle needs !

[iMav]

what about internet speeds, he gets a lot of big attachment files ~5MB how is the speed on these things, someone with hands on experience? Also can he download the mails on his laptop & then transfer them all on his fone via usb cable, in other words absolute seemless syncing between outlook/outlook express and his fone?

[coolpcguy]

@iMav P1i supports Blackberry's service. The email client supports POP, IMAP, and Exchange servers. Syncing via the cable and Outlook is easy.

He intends to download 5MB attachments via EDGE ?

[BBThumbHealer]

^ BlackBerry Connect On Other cellphones isn't successful .. i have tested them myself !

@ iMav , 5 MB attachment is downloaded in max. time of 2.5 mins ... myself downloaded 15 MB ( .jpeg's attachments ) in flat 4 mins 15 seconds ! .. Moreover , there is no need for transferring the message thru USB , he can have the synchronization b/w his Outlook Express and BlackBerry . That's what BlackBerry Enterprise Server is for !

[iMav]

hmmm... Sathya, P1i being non-Win Mo is something weighing against it, my uncle wishes to have a Win Mo cell phone.

@BB: Anything other Pearl to check out not in terms of price but in terms of features, also blackberry is n00b friendly i hope?

[ico]

@iMav

If you can, ask your uncle to wait for Xperia X1....It is going to kick a$$ of every Windows Mobile based fone.....

500mhz processor, 256MB RAM, Windows Mobile 6.1, Touch Screen, Full QERTY keyboard...what more you need??...

[iMav]

^^ arre woh main loonga ok guys so far:

TTYN II
Pearl
Cruise

what would you guys do?

what is the documents viewing & editing status on the HTC fones, the website that BB linked to says that the Pearl has Word, PDF etc support. What abt HTC?

final questions:

does Blackberry Doc Viewer offer editing capabilities? and what about HTC Cruise's document handling (viewing & editing) & email transfer capabilities?

[Charley]

Do you suggest buying from ebay or not ?

[BBThumbHealer]

Originally Posted by iMav

Pearl

does Blackberry Doc Viewer offer editing capabilities?

My vote goes for the Pearl ! But , if ur uncle wants a Windows Based mobile , then i suggest the HTC Touch Cruise coz BB is having its own dedicated OS !

Lemme tell u , there's not any separate application for viewing the docs , there's an inbuilt plugin which automatically views the documents present as attachments ! But there are editing options !

If ur uncle wants GPS , then he can go for the BB Curve 8310 , but first tell him that its the broad one ! For BB Pearl 8120 , its sleeker than the Moto Razr !

[iMav]

HTC looks better than the curve and gives GPS, confusion, please help.

[x3060]

TTYN II is laggy..that's what I have heard in lot of forums ...so don't go for that .
I don't know about others...

[dhan_shh]

"Nokia E90" (35K) with Quick Office Premiere v5.0(2.7K) or MobiSystems OfficeSuite v4.0(1.8K) will serve the purpose.

New 'black E90' has some stable hardware changes.

(But,REMEMBER.....Blackberry is THE only mobile phone on Earth has the option of increasing the Font to a really BIG level...

No other mobile....even Windows Mobile has 'smallest...to...largest' with a minimum difference in Font size.In Symbian mobiles Fonts are 'Theme' based,so not of much difference.

For People with 'reading glasses'.....Blackberry is the RIGHT solution! If 3G is a must, then BB 9000 Bold is worth waiting! )

[Krazy_About_Technology]

HTC Touch Dual or Cruiser will a good choice i think, i reviewed their details on the htc website. Specs of these two look quiet awesome. HTC diamond lacks some important features, like its only triband, no 3G or HSPDA, No GPS. Its slim and looks good, thats it.Personally for me, Cruiser is much much more feature rich and is the right choice coz of that

[BBThumbHealer]

Originally Posted by dhan_shh

Blackberry is the RIGHT solution! If 3G is a must, then BB 9000 Bold is worth waiting!

Myself too agree with that .. but , the major problem is that the Bold isn't goin to be launched soon in India coz till now , its not readily available in the intl. market !


But as i stated earlier , iMav go with the BB Pearl !

[iMav]

the only problem I find with HTC is that, no 1 has mentioned anything about it's syn & doc editing/viewing capabilities.

Black berry, no windows mobile hmmmm what is the default Internet Explorer on it? ANd you said something about the Blackberry exchange server or something, what is it?

[BBThumbHealer]

BlackBerry has its own internet browser .. but , Opera Mini can wok on it ! Abt. the BES , its for wireless synchronisation b/w BB and Outlook or any other mail client !