Orange M500 or T-Mobile MDA Compact

[Guest mcolbeck]

I have read several reviews on this phone's other variants and i reckon it will be my next phone. My orange contract is up for renewal in a few months and i wondered if anyone thinks the price for this phone will be as cheap as on T-mobile. Does anyone have any inside knowledge as to prices?

If not, what are t-mobile like as a network, is the coverage as good as orange and what about customer service?

[Guest iwod]

i would like to know as well.........coz to me the m500 looks better

[Guest Pondrew]

T-Mobile was better for me. I'd struggled with next to no signal on Orange where I live for a couple of years (purely for Smartphone) but this year gave up and moved to T-Mobile. I've found no coverage problems.

I've found their customer service very helpful albeit quite busy (hold music almost every time I ring). As for prices, they're probably slightly more expensive and outside bundle GPRS is extortionate (£7.50 a meg!). Make sure you have a gprs bundle that you will not go over otherwise it'll cost an obscene amount...

With regards the M500, it's all heresay for the moment but traditional T-Mobile's PDA offering has been cheaper then the other providers (look at the MDA III as opposed to the XDAIIs and M2000).