My desire isn't used for much, except tethering @ conferences / away from home. It's 2ish yrs old & utterly scuttlefucked. Serially crashing & getting stuck in a reboot loop, and it'll often take 10-15 attempts to get it restarted. Wiping all data, factory resets, etc, haven't changed this. I really haven't enjoyed android, but IIUC it's pretty much the only option for tethering...? How much / how arrange able are 3g dongles? I'm well over the end of my contract, but tbh am unsure whether I want to renew, or wait 6 months til I'm in employment & have a better idea of how much traveling (etc) I'll be doing. Any thoughts - cheap & efficient tethering, dongles, & non-Android hotspot-capable phones - greatly appreciated.
Cheap as it gets? Surely not I'm not that arsed about functionality over & above a hotspot, texts, phone. I'm happy hotspotting from that, and really am not after a top end phone. If avoidable. (My desire'd be fine, if it wasn't fubar).
yeh still go for the huawei ascend, ton all do you harm but do better than the rest, chk hduk for updates
The new Blackberry 9320 is £130 payg, if all you want is phone that's good for phoning, texting, and wi-fi tethering I'd say you can't go wrong.
Being in a similar situation I bought a Galaxy Y for Mrs D. It works very well, although she hated it and gave it to me. The big downside is the screen is so small. I saw one today in Virgin for £70
Yes. The platform hasn't been crippled by unreasonable restrictions, although some networks apparently try and remove it (I've never had that problem).
