Whats a good business phone?

[cookci]

which ones the daddy and why?

[Viipottaja]

And the next generation Nokia Communicator when/if it comes out in early 2004.

[Michael]

I'd tend to agree with Viip's picks.

[Omega]

Nokia 6310i - it does everything and has a standby of 400 hours and talktime of 6 hours

GPRS
Bluetooth
HSCSD
Picture messaging
EFR
Tri-band
predictive text
vibro alert
voice dialling
voice commands
voice recorder
WAP

It is the daddy and every business person i talk to has one.

[Ghibli]

The Siemens S55, with everything you really need in a business mobile. No fancy screen, just a 256-colour one, but it's got a great filesystem, great organiser, good phonebook, and Bluetooth.

[Sid]

How about something like the O2 XDA II? Its a PDA and phone in one. Otherwise, I'm looking forward to the P900.

[The Roo]

every business person i talk to has one Yeah, I've noticed that too. I guess it's just such a reliable mobile, easy to use, long battery life? Does the job, no fuss or fart-arsing around with fancy gimmicks, etc.
That's got to be it, because the O2 XDA II, SPV (all editions), Treo 600, etc these are all better featured business phones that the Nokia (full colour screen, MMS, net & email access, file viewers/edit); but they all still use the Nokia.

Interesting.

Anyway, my opinion- the very soon to be released SPV E-200 (http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=497) . Great business phone. Does it all, whilst still retaing the look and feel of a mobile- rather than try to be a PDA with phone capabilities. That's what business-types on the go want.

[The Roo]

Yeeeaaaah, P900 baby...

[hg999h]

Originally posted by Omega
Nokia 6310i - it does everything and has a standby of 400 hours and talktime of 6 hours It is the daddy and every business person i talk to has one.

Have brought nearly 2000 of these for the company I work for - IT IS THE DADDY.

HG

PS had 100 XDA's on trial, sent 100 back :)

[hef]

Originally posted by Omega
Nokia 6310i - it does everything and has a standby of 400 hours and talktime of 6 hours
It is the daddy and every business person i talk to has one.

have to agree with this fella, i work in a phone shop and we have lots of peeps coming in to upgrade after a year and taking another 6310i after having one for a year.

it's probably the phone that our repair guys see the least (for warranty repairs anyway) and out of personal experience it's really reliable too.

so if by business phone you mean good for calls and text, then yeah it's the daddy!!

[gsantarelli1]

I use a Nokia 6610 and an Ericsson R520 with T-Mobile. The 6610 is EXCELLENT and gets great reception, etc. What I don't understand is the lack of bluetooth in Nokia phones. They make great phones, none with bluetooth. I don't understand this.