[vip_students] Re: Replacement Nokia Phone

  • From: "tony sweeney" <deirton711@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:54:36 +0100

Morning Christina,

Thanks for that recommendation.

Just read similar on an off list mail.

Wow the Vodafone option does sound expensive.

Plenty of food for thought for me anyway.

My present phone the E51 must be 10 years old if it's a day as they say!

Tony
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christina McCarthy" <mccarc15@xxxxxx> 
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 11:49 AM
Subject: [vip_students] Re: Replacement Nokia Phone


Hi Tony,

I've heard that Vodafone have a deal where you can buy the phone with
the talks installed, so you don't have to worry about getting it done
separately.  The only thing is it's expensive - pretty sure it's 150
euro.

If you're a billpay customer, though, you could probably get the phone
on an upgrade, with the talks included - I got my C5 almost 2 years
ago for 100 with talks installed because I'd had my previous phone for
four years without changing my contract.

Hth!
Best,

Christina

On 29/04/2013, Eleanor Burke <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Tony
While I do not know what is available in Ireland re Vodafone and Talks I
know the C5 is popular here in the UK.  As for your issue with coverage,
this is interesting to me as for some reason my O2 phone (Irish) here in the 
UK has switched to Orange and though I can call O2 customer services in
Ireland from the phone, I cannot send a text message though I have money in 
the phone.  This happened in March but up to this I had no issues with
roaming on the same phone.  I am therefore curious to see if on Thursday
when in Dublin, the phone will revert to O2.ie I understand that in Ireland Vodafone like the UK put on Talks free of charge but this does limit you to 
the one and only phone Vodafone provide.  There are werty keypads on some
phones too, for example the Nokia E5 and E6, though the E6, does have some
touch screen.  For yourself or anyone else interested if you were to
purchase your own copy of Talks from a Talks dealer and already have a phone with Talks, your new purchase of Talks will be the fee for hand-set transfer only which is only about a third of the full price of Talks. To do this you would give your Talks dealer the licence code of your current Talks. In the UK this is a £50 charge so I have a feeling that I have heard it quioted at Euro 75. Doubtless Stuart Lawler from NCBI will correct me on this if I am wrong. All phones that run Talks are listed on the RNIB website and also on the latest release notes of Talks released back in December 2012. Hope this 
helps.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: tony sweeney
  To: the students list
  Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 10:36 AM
  Subject: [vip_students] Replacement Nokia Phone


  Morning folk,

  Firstly not just ready as yet to embrace smart phones but am looking
instead for possibly a replacement Nokia phone at a reasonable price say
from Vodafone that will include the Talks.
Briefly I switched to Tesco Mobile recently and since then I have issues. 


  I was abroad last week and I got no coverage from any network so when I
returned home the same, zilsh.
Contacted Tesco and they say that is a phone problem, but I'm not so sure. 


  Last time something like that occured I left the sim and battery finally
out for a day or so and everything was fine and dandhy again so I am trying 
that again.

  Anyone recommend a good reasonably-priced Nokia just in case?

  Tony Sweeney

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