Recently faced a similar dilemma when the screen on my Nokia 6700c
cracked rendering it utterly useless. Offered £65 to repair it, or a
new contract and new phone. In the end bought a Pay As You Go handset
for £5 (and £10 compulsory purchase of virgin airtime) from Carphone
Warehouse (or similar), put my O2 simplicity sim in (£10/m). This
gives me all the phone calls and texts I need and leaves me the
significant price difference to spend on a camera/ipod/whatever gadget
I may actually want!

Cheers Geoff

On 7 February 2010 11:16, Jeff Green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mary Hawking wrote:
>
>> What can a Blackberry do that an iPhone can't - and vice versa - and are
>> there any apps useful for GPs that run on one but not the other?
> The iPhone is the best gadget in the world - however it's not a very
> good phone - the battery life is too short. If you carry a laptop with
> you for recharging the iPhone it works though!!
>
> The Android - at the moment isn't mature enough - for apps to be easily
> made i.e. the teams preferred software doesn't support it - and we
> aren't looking to go down that route.
>
> Blackberry - and keyboards - they are small keyboards not proper ones.
> You still end up having to type with thumbs.
>
> Declaration of interest - Assyria Game Studios has made some iPhone apps
> (none GP specific - but one was commissioned by a doctor)
>
>> Any advice?
> Get a phone and use the savings to get an iPod Touch:-)
>
>
> Jeff
>





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