O2 xdaIIs versus T-Mobile MDAIII

[Guest nforsans]

Hi

Hope you can help.

I want to go for the Blue Angel device, in the UK it is sold under the xdaIIs and MDAIII brands by O2 and TMobile.

Since I understand the devices are the same on both networks, and since the deals each network offers are also similar in terms of prices and voice minutes available, is the experience any different on each network in terms of gprs browsing, network restrictions, sim locks, off-walled garden browsing, etc?

How can I choose between the two? What would you recommend me to do?

I've had a pocket pc for the past four years but I'm fed up of having to pair it with my orange phone each time I want to download emails, etc.

Thanks for your help.

[Guest matt1971]

Hi,

Just moved from Ipaq 5550 (Like yourself) and Orange SPV E200.

Managed to get the Orange flavour of the Blue Angel (M2000) for £49.99

Have no complaints so far, and I think the only difference between what the different networks offer is in the software installed on the device.

Incidently I used my old Ipaq for GPS navigation and sound level was so low - not so with the M2000 - it is so much louder.

Matt

[Guest Pondrew]

I'd agree with matt1971 that there are little differences between the three main providers (Orange, T-Mobile, O2). When I was choosing T-Mobile offered the best deal for the device and O2 seemed to think the XDA brand name entitled them to charge more then the other two (was not impressed by their tariff cost either).

With T-Mobile you need to be sure not to go outside your GPRS bundle or you could get stung as they charge far more for GPRS outside of your allowance. Solution of course is just to get a large bundle as the price just went down. You can get 12meg for £10 which does me.

Think Orange are possibly the happy medium although I'd recommend doing some research. There have also been unconfirmed reports of newer Orange SPV M2000 having the latest roms on them which include Windows Media Player 10, something neither T-Mobile nor O2s Blue Angels have yet.