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06-28-2012 , 11:48 AM
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I need a bit of help here, as my girlfriend is looking for a reasonnably cheap new phone, and it occurs to me that I don't know anything about smartphones aside from flagships
The target is arround the following characteristic:
- around 200-300€, availlable in France (or UK)
- as rock stable as possible for calls, mails and internet.
- good GPS chip, off-line maps are a plus
- sync with google services for contacts and calendar
- mass storage access is a plus

she doesn't care about good camera, 100000 of apps, 1080p displays and such.

I've been considering the xperia arc s and xperia ray for starters, but I would appreciate any suggestion!
 
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06-28-2012 , 12:09 PM
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If you don't mind end-of-line devices (and let's face it, pretty much everything non-Apple & non-Google is these days), the HP Pre 3 isn't half bad and ticks most of your boxes (except offline maps, sadly). You should still be able to find both QWERTY and AZERTY variants within your budget on Amazon etc.
 

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06-28-2012 , 02:00 PM
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needless to say, 200-300€ is off-contract price, so it may be a bit short for a galaxy S3
even for a new N9 for that matter (330€ for the 16Gb version in Switzerland..). Sad, as I truly love mine and it really ticks all these boxes.
 
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show her you love her with this girly pink n9 16GB : 289EUR in france !

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06-28-2012 , 02:21 PM
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In that price range nothing beats Sony/Sony Ericsson. Get one with dual chip from ST-Ericsson.

She will fall in love with The Xperia Go, water proof, dust proof, excellent little phone. It will be out any day now.
 

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06-28-2012 , 02:27 PM
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buy any chinese fone,e;g ZTE with ICS ,may cost around 100 $ ,that would do good .
 
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Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
- good GPS chip, off-line maps are a plus
-Anything with glonass, Galaxy note and Galaxy s3 is Super uber fast, there own league atm



I say. Go for Samsung galaxy s3. She will not like the n9.
What is this ****? Are you really that dense?

Anything with glonass?

My N9 starts up drive and gets a stable lock in under 4 seconds and doesn't lose signal.

Don't spread this nonsense before you have hard evidence to back it up.
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gNex price get lower now, maybe she's gonna like it, but n9 magenta will ne amazing choice,
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What is this ****? Are you really that dense?

Anything with glonass?

My N9 starts up drive and gets a stable lock in under 4 seconds and doesn't lose signal.

Don't spread this nonsense before you have hard evidence to back it up.
Still, having n9 and note and to me gps+ glonass gives me an superior performance, especially in harder conditions. But I'm not saying n9 is bad for you, or bad at all.
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Still, having n9 and note and to me gps+ glonass gives me an superior performance, especially in harder conditions. But I'm not saying n9 is bad for you, or bad at all.
I know, I just wanted to get a bit snappy, it seemed like fun
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