Can someone provide feedback/advice on mobiles with good internet browsers 
for wife who has just renewed her O2 contract without handset. The new 
contract comes with 200mb a month internet access.

She very much likes the iphone but price-wise this is out of reach.



Thanks in advance

Nick wrote:

> Can someone provide feedback/advice on mobiles with good internet
> browsers for wife who has just renewed her O2 contract without
> handset. The new contract comes with 200mb a month internet access.

How do you/she define 'good'?

I use Opera Mini instead of the default browser on my nokia e51. It
works well most of the time, but I do get the occasional crash.

-- 
The email address is a spam trap. I rarely use it.

Possible touch screen with a fairly large display to be able to browse the 
internet and read and write emails.


"Chris"  wrote in message 
news:hcmv4n$mk3$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Nick wrote:
>
>> Can someone provide feedback/advice on mobiles with good internet
>> browsers for wife who has just renewed her O2 contract without
>> handset. The new contract comes with 200mb a month internet access.
>
> How do you/she define 'good'?
>
> I use Opera Mini instead of the default browser on my nokia e51. It
> works well most of the time, but I do get the occasional crash.
>
> -- 
> The email address is a spam trap. I rarely use it.

Nick  wrote:
> Possible touch screen with a fairly large display to be able to browse the 
> internet and read and write emails.

Does she want a keyboard to do lots of writing, or is a touchscreen OK for
typing?  I had a play with an Android phone which looks interesting from a
web browsing poitn of view, but I don't think I'd have much fun tap-typing
on the screen.

Theo

Keyboard would be handy, most important is the quality of browsing.

You get could give me a list of few phones and I could look for further 
reviews on the internet.


"Theo Markettos" <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message 
news:Liv*Zh9Us@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> Nick  wrote:
>> Possible touch screen with a fairly large display to be able to browse 
>> the
>> internet and read and write emails.
>
> Does she want a keyboard to do lots of writing, or is a touchscreen OK for
> typing?  I had a play with an Android phone which looks interesting from a
> web browsing poitn of view, but I don't think I'd have much fun tap-typing
> on the screen.
>
> Theo

in 31768 20091102 212610 "Nick"  wrote:
>Keyboard would be handy, most important is the quality of browsing.
>
>You get could give me a list of few phones and I could look for further
>reviews on the internet.

The LG KS360 has a qwerty keyboard and will run Opera Mini.

On 2009-11-02, Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Nick  wrote:
>> Possible touch screen with a fairly large display to be able to browse the 
>> internet and read and write emails.
>
> Does she want a keyboard to do lots of writing, or is a touchscreen OK for
> typing?  I had a play with an Android phone which looks interesting from a
> web browsing poitn of view, but I don't think I'd have much fun tap-typing
> on the screen.

The Motorola Milestone is an Android phone with a keyboard.  Bet it
isn't cheap, though.

Dennis Ferguson

Nick wrote:
> Can someone provide feedback/advice on mobiles with good internet 
> browsers for wife who has just renewed her O2 contract without handset. 
> The new contract comes with 200mb a month internet access.
> 
> She very much likes the iphone but price-wise this is out of reach.

The HTC Touch Diamond 2 that I have has a very good browser Opera Mobile 
+ a high resolution screen, this combination produces extremely useable 
web browsing as you get a zoomed out view in high res showing the whole 
page and can then zoom in to enter text in google search for example 
then it zooms out again to show you the results page.