recommend phone with easy connection to pc?

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bealoid - 30 Jan 2008 15:35 GMT

I'd like to get a new phone.

I'd really like to be able to transfer stuff (contacts, images, ringtones,
etc) to it from my pc, and stuff (txt messages, contacts, etc) from it to
my pc.

I'd like that to be as easy as possible. Preferably as simple as most
cameras are now; you just plug a USB cable in and they appear as a storage
unit.

I've had a motorola and a nokia phone which supposedly had pc connectivity,
but they both required weird cables, and huge software installs, and even
then they were intermittant.

I'm not going ot be doing anything tricky (unlocking etc) or illegal
(changing IMEI numbers or whatnot).

Also, I'm a skinflint, so I'd like it to be cheap.

Anything else isn't that important - I don't mind having to look for second
hand models, I don't need a camera.

Many thanks for your advice.

(I'm running windows 2000, windows XP, and I have a Tesco Value SIM, but I
can change that.)

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Ian - 30 Jan 2008 17:26 GMT

> I'd really like to be able to transfer stuff (contacts, images, ringtones,
> etc) to it from my pc, and stuff (txt messages, contacts, etc) from it to
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> cameras are now; you just plug a USB cable in and they appear as a storage
> unit.

The problem is, I think you'll find, that transferring text messages,
contacts and other application data is more complicated than just
sticking a file somewhere - doing it properly involves some
interaction with the application.

Mind you, when I want to move stuff (mp3s, for example) to my Nokia
6120 I, erm, just plug a USB cable in and it appears as a storage
unit. That's under Ubuntu Linux - I suppose it's similar under
Windows. You just have to tell the phone to default to data storage
for USB connections.

Ian

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Steve Terry - 30 Jan 2008 19:28 GMT

> I'd like to get a new phone.
> I'd really like to be able to transfer stuff (contacts, images, ringtones,
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> but they both required weird cables, and huge software installs, and even
> then they were intermittant.

Any recent Nokia, I'm writing this on my laptop using a 6630 with a DKU2
datacable to connect to the internet on 3 network 5quid a month internet
deal

PC Suite 6.85 makes using it very easy, one button phone back up, etc.

Newer Nokias use simpler cables

Steve Terry

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Dennis Ferguson - 30 Jan 2008 19:52 GMT

> I'd like that to be as easy as possible. Preferably as simple as most
> cameras are now; you just plug a USB cable in and they appear as a storage
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> but they both required weird cables, and huge software installs, and even
> then they were intermittant.

Any recent Motorola phone is very good for that now; they use standard
mini-USB cables and their phones have always made reliable modems. It is
just that the software on their phones, and the user interface, is
so awful that the thought of using one for anything other than a modem
is unpleasant.

Dennis Ferguson

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