The 250meg tariff is only available on one plan, I think its something like the £45+ p/m panther? It isn't available on others.

Still, the (truly pathetic) 30 meg is adequate for me - its enough for a month of MSN, Facebook and the odd other web page when I'm nowhere near a computer.

Generally good 3G signal at home and at the office, but I'll switch 3G off for a few days, see how it handles. Ta

I've tried hard resets, doesn't make a difference.

This is the second dual I've had, the first one had major issues with call quality.

This one has only recently (in the last week or so) started to do this in a big way though, although prior to that I had plenty of people saying they'd only received part of the message.

I'm starting to get wound up with the way WM6 handles texting, unsure if its specific to the Niki, or the Orange customisations.

I'm running the standard Orange customised firmware, and this is a list of the problems -
- it regularly just saves messages into the drafts folder rather than sends them
- takes ages (well maybe 10-20 seconds) to respond when attempting to send
- keeps a message in the outbox until I told it to send
- it will say "sending failed", whilst the recipient has actually received the message

Any when there's no signal, why doesn't the SMS system just keep the messages in the outbox until there is a signal? It just says "message can't be sent" and stick the message in the drafts folder.

Is this just standard windows mobile? If so, its pretty poor - Symbians messaging systems work absolutely perfectly in comparison.

Picked up a Dual Slide yesterday, overall its okay, but I've got one huge gripe.

The EQ/Booster needs the wired headset connected - it will not work with an A2DP headset connected (I'm using a pair of Jabra BT620s).

I've had a browse for hacks related to this, and there's nothing obviously out there. Any suggestions?

512meg Mini SD cards - best price I've seen so far is £25.69 from SVP.co.uk - quite a good supplier. Orange will effectively be paying less for them as well, so I don't think there is a problem with Orange making money on these.

Music is one of the big things for me - my SX1 has a 512meg MMC, of which 420 meg is taken up with audio (Ogg Vorbis format).

Seen on the orange web site that the C550 can now be had with a music kit - 512meg SD card, hifi connection cables, etc.

has anyone seen the hifi kit, and know what is actually contains - is it 3.5 mm adapter and also stereo phono connectors?

Every point that I think I know what phone I'm going to get next, the goalposts get moved. Its pretty cool, the competition in the market for music phones!

I've seen a few reviews of the C550, and whilst they comment about the camera, it doesn't really get that much of a mention.

Is it really only a little better than the C500? If so its a shame, but then again, this is a ridiculously cheap phone for the overall spec.

Basically you are right - whilst a memory card can get fragmented, performance isn't an issue, as (in theory) access to all parts of memory is done at pretty much equal speed.

More accurately, all cheap cameras with lousy lenses do that. Which invariably means cheap digital cameras (camera phones included). The lenses on cheap disposables always seem to be better/sharper. Wierd.

I don't see why the Java games should suffer the same gapi problems, its a totally different subsystem.

There are some quite good games for Java - Colin McRae 4, Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, Rainbox Six 3, 3D pool. All on my Moto V525 though. Haven't got a C500 yet, so don't know if they'll work or not.

Can I second those profanities? Lock keypad, put phone in pocket, stick bluetooth headset on, try and do a voice dial ... it doesn't work.

This is mind-numbingly stupid. At the very least there should be an option to switch this stupid functionality off?

Anyone know if this is the same on the Symbian devices?

If this is true, then its almost (but not quite) a show stopper - I cannot believe that it has been designed in such a way.

I'm going through a similar choice soon - 6600 or C500. The C500 games compatibility is very irritating; 6600 being able to play a lot of the N-Gage games is a major plus point.

Yup, the 6600 only has mono MP3 playback, C500 has stereo. Heck, the 7610 only has mono. Nokia are dragging their heels (6230 is nice though, but only S40).

I think the clincher for me will be availability of applications for the device, and ultimately price (they are currentlly pretty much the same price).