Meteor network quality? and good mobiles

[kevinod]

I'm looking at changing mobile phone networks (want to change from Three), and was in the car phone warehouse earlier. Meteor seem to have the best pricing at the moment, but how is the network quality these days?

Looking at phones too, thinking of Sony Ericsson at the moment. anyone got any recommendations?

Kev.

[d_dan]

hey i work in carphone warehouse!

erm....
are you pay as you go or bill pay?

go for o2!
they give EXTRA bonus credit for changing over!
if your bill pay they give you free phones!

erm on o2 pre pay SONY ERICSON K800i
3.2mp camera
mp3 player
expendable memory
bluetooth
ONLY €129 euro should be €250


on bill pay
go for the samsung U600
3.2mp camera
the works great phone

if ya have any questions let me know!

[kevinod]

Bill pay.

They were recommending Meteor to me in Cork but it was probably mainly on price. O2 seems a good bit more expensive. Whats the Meteor coverage like? Any problems going abroad with them?

I was told too that most phones now have 1-2 days life before they need to be charged again, does that sound right to you?

[gt94]

Whats the Meteor coverage like?

Its fairly good my girlfriend has meteor and in most places where i cant get coverage she can,i think i read somewhere vodafone lease out there mast signals to meteor so they have a wider coverage.if im wrong someone will correct me

[d_dan]

O2 vodafone and meteor all have local roming (if you have no signal they will jump onto another network for no extra fee)


Erm unless your all about the texts meteor isn't worth it.


Put it this way there is 4 people working in our store and were all on o2 even i have changed from meteor.

Here's what o2 offer you
Fifty euro per month gets you
Five hundred minutes,
Two hundred texts
And a free phone.


Battery life on a sony ericsons are the best average phone. (Not including my blackberry, twenty minutes and its fully charged)

But sonys are built to be used all day, nokias have too much on them eating away on battery.

If your going for a bill phone go for o2 if you really want meteor get a pay as you go phone and hopefully by april meteor will have launched their 3g service and you'll see them take on a wholw rangw of new phones

[colm_mcm]

I got the Samsung U600 in October, and it still annoys me.
It's nice and small, but the menus, particularly texting and camera - are rubbish. And I'm not a "Nokia reatard" I get used to phones very quickly.

[d_dan]

Personally I would go for the 6300 anyway, camera is great on thye U600 but that's all I really really like,

I got.a blackberry and its great, I run my own site with it all my e-mails and the usual ewxtras for 249 euro ya can't go wrong.

Then again I got it for 60 quid with my discount

[Daz]

I'm not to sure about the networks over there anymore but nearly everyone i know has changed from their O2 and vodafone to meteor so i guess meteor can't be that bad.

As reguards phone's unless your going top end like pda's xda's blackberry's ect the phone i would recomend as its probably going to be my next phone and several people i know are already using it and using theirs i found great, (and i'm a nokia man normanly) is this phone

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/product ... c=us&lc=en

Daz...

[Gwyn]

I have been on Meteor for around a year. Never had a single call fail to connect, and the roaming is good too. No issues calling from Madrid or Venice in the last few months......

[Wildhound]

I got a SE w610i recently and haven't looked back. It's cheap enough and packed with features. Battery seems to last forever as well.

I'm with Meteor and have no problems with coverage, but then I spend most of my time in Dublin.

[Muad_dib77]

I got a k770i for xmas - I'm on "3" and it works ok - except I don't have internet cover when I'm in Tynagh oh well

Love the phone though - even if it has gotten slated in reviews..

[kevinod]

Ended up going with Meteor, a Sony Ericsson W580i. Apparently SE have had problems with keys cracking but if it does its covered under warranty (2 year) anyway so I'm covered.

Coverage is sorted by the other operators having to provide for you if your own operators coverage isn't available in a particular place, no extra charge.

Calls all day Saturdays for free (to any Irish number) and extra texts & minutes above the plan are cheaper than O2 & Vodafone so looks good on paper anyway.

Interestingly they have a thing that if you want to use the phone while abroad within the first 2 months they want a 60 quid deposit, which is credited on your account, or after 2 months you can just call them to have it taken off.

Came active yesterday. Initial impressions, no probs so far, phone works better with the car kit than the LG did so thats a plus straight away.