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Ok folks ,looking at the pace at which the price of the p990i has been tumbling on ebay and other sites like this one i think that this outlook is very realistic plus if the phone is network locked it will probably go for 2gees in the same period,What do you think?
[ This Message was edited by: tindo196 on 2006-10-20 19:54 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-20 20:49:03
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i reckon my was less than that anyway...
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Posted: 2006-10-20 20:50:02
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Who would want the bugridden and unstable piece if $hit anyway ......
It's not worth 10 pence in it's current state
[ This Message was edited by: kradcliffe on 2006-10-20 20:10 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-20 21:10:23
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Sorry, but that is RUBBISH
Despite all the whinging and gripes about the phone's stability - which should soon be sorted out with a simple firmware update - it's still technologically some way ahead of the P910 which is still selling for £150 on ebay.
So on that basis, would you say the P990 is only £50 better than a P910? I dont think so.
There's a lot of panic on this forum about the phone and eBay (although useful) isn't always the best barometer of market value.
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Posted: 2006-10-20 21:11:07
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On 2006-10-20 21:11:07, liamski wrote:
which should soon be sorted out with a simple firmware update
We'll wait and see. SE arent doing themselves any favours here. This is currently the 3rd firmware release and each new one seems to introduce new bugs that weren't there before.
I don't think the P990i will EVER be as stable or bug free as the P910i. Only time will tell.
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Posted: 2006-10-20 21:16:46
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On 2006-10-20 21:11:07, liamski wrote:
which should soon be sorted out with a simple firmware update
We'll wait and see. SE arent doing themselves any favours here. This is currently the 3rd firmware release and each new one seems to introduce new bugs that weren't there before.
I don't think the P990i will EVER be as stable or bug free as the P910i. Only time will tell.
True, time will tell. But have SE let us down really badly in the past? I don't expect the new firmware to sort the P990 completely, solve world hunger or find a solution to the Middle East crisis. However, it will make the phone more than usable and worth more than £200!
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Posted: 2006-10-20 21:23:36
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Stop whinging about the phone, I've got one and it's crashed once.... and since them I've had tomtom running and load sof other apps and it's not crashed once. In fact I bloody love the phone so the less people that get it the happier I'll be because it quite a unique phone and head turner.
I'm actually excited about the prospect of firmware upgrades rather than bitching about it's early faults, compare it to every other phone on the market and it doesn't come close.
Wake up people, if you've got an early p990 with old firmware... unlucky, but the latest shipped orange firmware R7 is stable as and very functional.
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Posted: 2006-10-20 21:35:28
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Fair point
The issues of RAM and shutting down working apps are always going to be there though.
SE have been strangely quiet about this, which leads me to believe that they don't have a fix.
Bearing in mind what happened with the same(ish) problem on the P900, I would rather keep my money and wait for the replacement model not too far away. Although stability issues will probably be sorted, the lack of RAM is a hardware issue and unless UIQ3 apps can shed a lot of memory footprint, there is no sulution I'm afraid.
It should still not be sold in it's current state IMHO. Too many level 1 bugs that the people who were supposed to be testing it never picked up. I would say from what I have read that basic users get very few crashes, but it's rebooting frequently if you are a power user.
[ This Message was edited by: kradcliffe on 2006-10-20 20:40 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-20 21:37:32
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I think kradcliffe is right. But.....
Frankly, I was fedup and started search for another PDA (after P800, P900, P910 now on P990). But there is NO PDA out there with this spec. Some have a 262k color screen, but no wifi. Or there's wifi but bluetooth at v1.2 (most PDAs actually). To make a long story short: no PDA has these features all packed in one phone. So I decided to bitch a bit every time it freaks out on me. But this thing rocks, if you compare it to anything comparable. My $0.02
[ This Message was edited by: nuke on 2006-10-20 21:02 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-20 22:00:26
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I totally agree that the spec is amazing. It's the total lack of RAM that ultimately stops the device being as good as it should be. Even trying to play MP3's, browse the web and send an email at the same time kills it.
There's no point it being the most feature rich device if it plainly doesn't do what it is supposed to.
I still have the P910i, which now has an uptime of 105 days. I am running 17 apps apart from the standard messaging etc and still have 4.9Mb free. There is no way the P990i could get close. I agree wifi and 3G are a bonus, but the multitasking and stability is more important to me!
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[ This Message was edited by: kradcliffe on 2006-10-20 21:10 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-20 22:08:50
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