I finally gave in and purchased a new phone, coming to the conclusion that I would be forever waiting for the iPhone and paying a lot more money for not a great deal more in terms of features. Nexus one would have been nice, but with a £360 price tag or wait until Vodafone gets it and hope the plans are cheap, that was never a definite options.
So, looking through my options on Vodafones upgrade site I could have a free (albeit old) blackberry, HTC Tattoo, and verious other non-smart phones. At £60 the Magic seemed a pretty good deal, so I went with it and was about to hit order to be told that it could only be delivered to my home address, which isn’t ideal as I am currently at uni in Lancaster, so went to ring up to see if the address could be changed and ended up getting the phone for just £30, due to them knocking 300 minutes from my allowance, which I don’t use anyway.
It arrived on Friday, quite impressive considering I had only ordered the day before. I couldn’t get over how small this thing was, making my Nokie E63 look like the brick that it truly is, it has a far sleeker design and feels like it has a far superior build quality (I never thought I would say that about a Nokia).
Due to the awful reception in my room, at first I thought I’d received a broken unit, even to the extent that I was about to return it, but a quick walk around campus brought up excellent 3G reception and all the features working in an instant. The Android OS really does shine when you have a solid internet connection, with Google services being synced instantaneously, and new mail being pushed directly towards you, it is what I imagine Exchange would be like in a business environment.
This is a new toy for me, so obviously I’m playing with it and wearing the battery down at a constant rate! But I can honestly say that I’m not dissapointed or regretting the fact that I didn’t hold out for an iPhone, it is the best phone I have had by a long way.
Just one niggle, why is it not possible to enter a proxy server for WLAN connections? Making it useless for use on the univesrities network, and I can’t get 3rd party apps to work either. Ahh well, so long as I have 3G all is good. 