HTC on the 3 Network

[Welsh Thunderca]

Is anybody running HTC Trinity P3600 or TYN TYN on the 3 network. If so how well does it work ?

[Resonance]

Originally Posted by Welsh Thunderca

Is anybody running HTC Trinity P3600 or TYN TYN on the 3 network. If so how well does it work ?

I have been running my Vodafone 1605 (aka HTC TyTN) with a 3 SIM on both 2G and 3G networks and it works fine. However I haven't been using it for voice very much, mainly email and other data services. When I have made voice calls they have been fine.

HOWEVER, if you plan to go aboard and use data services, do NOT go for 3. 3 only supports data in countries where they own the network (Austria, Italy and a few others) and they don't let you roam onto other people's 2G networks for data. But voice works well abroad.

[Welsh Thunderca]

Thank you

[itsamac]

But on the flipside, if you do go to a country with a 3 network in it, then your voice calls from the UK are free and calls back to the UK come out of your inclusive minutes.

[FazerThou]

Hope you don't mind me jumping in on your thread but I was looking for a cheap pda/phone for use on the 3 network to try before contract runs out. Could anyone recommend anything. Will be looking to buy secondhand, ebay etc. Would anything thats unlocked work?

Thanks

Paul

[Welsh Thunderca]

Originally Posted by FazerThou

Hope you don't mind me jumping in on your thread but I was looking for a cheap pda/phone for use on the 3 network to try before contract runs out. Could anyone recommend anything. Will be looking to buy secondhand, ebay etc. Would anything thats unlocked work?

Thanks

Paul

No problem the more the merrier. I have not yet decided which way to go so I will be happy for any feed back.

[Monty Burns]

I'm going to add a little extra slightly on/off topic as well.

If you haven't already bought your HTC then I would strongly recommend you google HTC and "problem". HTC phones are excellent on functionality and rubbish on reliability/longevity. HTC's build quality is well documented all over the net and lets just say, its poor at best. I speak from experience on this after owning two HTC phones and would never own another one.

Of course, there are peolpe who have owned a TyTN and never had a problem, myself, I have had 3 hardware faults on mine and its been treated with velvet gloves and laid to bed at night in Andrex tripple quilt! My Blueangel/MDA 3 gave up as well, the speaker stopped working.

If you can wait, i would strongly suggest you do and go for an I-Mate Ultimate. Depending on which model you want they will be available from next month through to January/Feb next year (the 5150 & 9150 are the delayed ones). Contrary to popular belief, whilst HTC did make all of I-Mates phones (and hence had the same hardware issues) the Ultimate range are being made by a diferent company - Japanese I believe.

If you can't wait, then take a look at the Tosh G900 which I use or the new/very soon to be release GloFish. The Tosh did have a major software sleep, won't wake up bug but this was fixed two week after release with a patch being on the tosh website. In my opinion, not a bad turn-around time and since then, bar the rubbish battery life (800x480 screen so to be expected) its been working fine.

Good luck with your new phone/network though

[Welsh Thunderca]

Seems like you have had a bad experience with HTC.How good is the Toshiba g900.It looks very much like the HTC TYN TYN ?

[Monty Burns]

this.

edit: Not sure what the above was all about!

[Welsh Thunderca]

Originally Posted by Monty Burns

this.

Having almost come to make my mind up and buy the toshiba protege g900 I delved in futher and found pages of poeople having lots of poblems with this unit. Having also cheked several sites it appears to have been with drawn. Monty hows your Tosh doing.

[Welsh Thunderca]

Originally Posted by Welsh Thunderca

Having almost come to make my mind up and buy the toshiba protege g900 I delved in futher and found pages of poeople having lots of poblems with this unit. Having also cheked several sites it appears to have been with drawn. Monty hows your Tosh doing.

Sorry for typoss working nights

[Monty Burns]

Its fine now mate.

As I mentioned above, when they released it there was a serious sleep/wake up bug but now there is the patch on the Tosh website, its fine.

[Welsh Thunderca]

Just a couple more question please. Where did you buy yours from and how bad is the battery life?

[Monty Burns]

No problem

The battery life if setup for constant active sync (Exchange push email) is rubbish. Four hours to six was all I could hope for.

I have now changed to pull pop/smtp mail (as this also supports html, unlike most Exchange boxes) and this pulls email every 15minutes. Combine this with some almost constant surfing today following the cricket score and its lasted all day. Also need to add that I am within Heathrows T5 which is basicaly a huge Faraday cage and this is obviously going to hinder reception forcing the phone to use a higher setting.

All in all, as long as not using Push email, you should be ok.


I got mine from Expansys. G900 on Expansys

[Daddy k]

on the plus side i have loved htc phones since my 1st an orange spv m2000 (xda 2)

im now using my qtek 9000 (xda exec) ive had it for over 18 months and still going strong,

build quality is top! and the screens tilt and swivel hinge has really shocked me with its durability,

i have dropped it onto solic concrete floors god knows how many times now, down stairs top to bottom,
my kids trying their hardest to open the scren the wrong way, you name it its had it,

im a htc fan!