best phone for the 770

[psj]

I have a nokia 3650, which has great features, but is a bit large and files on the phone cannot be read with the 770. I was wondering if anyone had found the best phone to marry with the 770?

[Remote User]

If you haven't yet visited the ITT Wiki then you should. It has a link to the Maemo Wiki on this subject and is a good starting point.

[dreaming]

I was planning to update the Wiki with my cingular blackberry 7100g, which pairs, but does nothing else, but was looking for opinions on whether phones that don't work would confuse others? Opinions???

[cybe]

Just got a Nokia 6151 and it works well.

I used the finnish phone-comparison site http://puhelinvertailu.com to list all phones with gprs+edge+3g+bluetooth and this is the cheapest one in that list; 222 eur. Very nice to pair the phone, access files on the phone wirelessly, get online anywhere just like that.

[mallard]

I use a Nokia N70, works well for internet and file transfer.
The 770 also makes a good viewer for photos taken with the 770's camera.

[Biomech]

I use the 770 with my LG Chocolate (VX8500) and it works well. It also works with my wife's LG VX 8600 flip phone.

[Arjun]

I have a Nokia 3650 ( GPRS ) and a Nokia 6682 (EGPRS). They can be paired easily to the Nokia 770. The Nokia 6682 ( due to EGPRS ), gets me to the web at faster ( 110 Kbps+ download and 72 Kbps+ upload) speed. It also allows me to easily manipulate / read files on the phone.

Photos taken with the Nokia 3650 are better than the ones taken with the Nokia 6682. Also, the 3650 works a whole lot better with my Nokia Bluetooth (HS-4W ) Headset.

[Rocketman]

I use my Nokia 6620 for EDGE internet access all the time. Works well, although the speed is nothing to write home about.

[Texrat]

I use the Nokia N80. It works great, although Cingular's data service is slooooow. Kinda like using a 56k modem at best.

[Luna]

I use the Nokia N80. It works great, although Cingular's data service is slooooow. Kinda like using a 56k modem at best.

I've hit 1 Mbps with the HSDPA on cingular. With a BT Pan connect, I get around 300kbps on the 770 tethered to a Samsung Blackjack.

[dcarter]

Yeah, I gotta agree.....
I have a LG CU-500, a pretty cheap but feature-laden clamshell type phone
and through cingular's 3G HSDPA, it is pretty awesome.
It is so fast, in fact, that I could care less what the upload and download numbers are. Bluetooth connection is solid to 20 or more feet.
It all depends on your location, but since July I have noticed a steady increase in the speed and range of cingular's high speed network.

dcarter

[Arjun]

Yeah, I gotta agree.....
I have a LG CU-500, a pretty cheap but feature-laden clamshell type phone
and through cingular's 3G HSDPA, it is pretty awesome.
It is so fast, in fact, that I could care less what the upload and download numbers are. Bluetooth connection is solid to 20 or more feet.
It all depends on your location, but since July I have noticed a steady increase in the speed and range of cingular's high speed network.

dcarter
:cool:
Would you like to mention the configuration setting that you use to access Cingular's 3G HSDPA ? I say this because right now I am on T-Mobile Plan (with a Nokia 3650 and am done with the contract ).

I can switch over to Cingular anytime ( I have a Nokia 6682 also). What Service Plan do you have ? :cool:

[dcarter]

19.99 a month medianet unlimited plan on cingular.
Tethering is not explicitly allowed, you are at your own risk, and the settings are available all over with a google search.

[Texrat]

I've hit 1 Mbps with the HSDPA on cingular. With a BT Pan connect, I get around 300kbps on the 770 tethered to a Samsung Blackjack.

Unfortunately, I can't upgrade-- this is a business plan and I'm lucky I got the data access turned on at all. But eventually...

[keitai]

Ack for the recommendation of Nokia 6150. It has the same charger as 770, so there is one object less to carry around. But phone recommendations are very much operator and plan specific. It's very hard to give a "universally best" phone. But for general n770 friendly phone, look out for the following features(in decreasing order of imporatnce):


Supports the best speed your operator has
has bluetooth
how good it looks and feels in your hand
price
does it use same Nokia charger as 770
does it use rs-mmc cards like 770?


Nokia 6150 has all of those but rs-mmc. My operator supports HSPDA, but with very limited coverage, so it doesn't really matter it isn't supported by 6150.

[sebastian.linux]

I use the Nokia N80. It works great, although Cingular's data service is slooooow. Kinda like using a 56k modem at best.

I'm also using the N80. In Spain (Europe). It usually connects at a speed of three hundred something Kbps. At this very moment I've done a velocity test (I've installed a JavaVM) and it shows 322.10Kbps. That is 40KBytes/sec, or 2.4MB/min, or 141MB/hour. For me, it's super :)

[BanditRider]

I have it working with my new LG 8600 on Verizon. I did have to hack a file in the phone to allow it to teather, though. Pertty cool.

[BigFNDeal]

I've hit 1 Mbps with the HSDPA on cingular. With a BT Pan connect, I get around 300kbps on the 770 tethered to a Samsung Blackjack.

Can you tell me what settings you use or how you connect over the PAN with the BJ and the 770. I am using the 2007HE on the Nokia. i have the 19.99 unlimited data plan on my BJ.