New Toys

(Imported from rocketcat-v2)

Put the Treo 650 up on eBay last night. Was expecting to have a week to look for a new phone. No, it sold in about 15 minutes for my Buy It Now price, which was $150 over the starting price. Damn. Looks like I had it up there too cheap!

Well, had to urgently get a phone, so didn’t have a lot of time for research. I did have a couple of requirements though:

• Bluetooth


• Syncs with iSync


• Decent menu navigation

It ended up being a 3-way contest between Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson.

Nokia with the 6111, Motorola with either the RAZR or the SLVR and Sony Ericsson with the K700i.

The 6111, while I like the menus on them, was a bit flimsy and plasticy. The K700i was a bit pricey ($100 more than the others). The SLVR is hard to get in Australia at the moment, and is more expensive than the RAZR, while it uses the same innards, it’s a candy-bar form factor.

So, as you can probably tell from the picture at the top here, I ended up with the RAZR. It’s been out for over a year now, so hopefully the firmware has been through enough revisions. I’ve got one with a pretty recent version of the firmware, so it’s all good. Motorola phones usually sync very well with the Mac, second only to Sony Ericsson. So far, so good...