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Does anyone know if playing videos online such as on youtube will work on this?

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  • 2008-02-21 00:22
  • mpSb
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Can U Please tell me which is the latest phone Stella or 02 XDA Orbit 11 also please tell me which is better between above two

Also can anybody tell me which is better
phone between NK95 8GB and Sony W960 I

Some Detailed comments appreciated

Thanks for Help

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  • 2008-02-20 19:29
  • nEh%
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just let you know ive had to send mine back as sat nav software was going wrong 02 agreed to exchange new phone and software but dont worry new phones will get these problem .....as my xda orbit did to......

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  • 2008-02-19 20:15
  • MSRn
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if you are a 02 customer try say yr seen a better deal else where and can they do anything...you got to remember they dont want to loose your service so haggle with them and yr get deal you want....shop around

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  • 2008-02-18 22:22
  • MSRn
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Dear Fellows,
This is such a great phone but be careful if you make long calls this phone is worthless. it gets too hot if I talk for more than 30 minutes. and it does'nt stop there if I keep on talking it starts burning my ears. So watch before you buy....

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  • 2008-02-18 21:01
  • mpYg
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that picture is incorrect it silver with a stupid silver bit at the bottom that feels tinny

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  • 2008-02-17 18:46
  • n$g1
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Get put through to O2 Carphone Warehouse's Loyalty Department. I said I was leaving, they gave me the phone for free on a £35 per month contract, unlimited web browsing/downloads and on 18 month contract!! Get in!!!

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  • 2008-02-15 21:32
  • pKbj
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to all below!!!
your all kinda full of it as i work for o2 amd i know the orbit II is only free on the £40 24mnth or £45 18 month tariffs. good phone but for that sort of tariff id want something that could do everything for my life including my job

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  • 2008-02-13 19:42
  • T30H
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To below, I ordered yesterday and was put through to retention to get a better deal. In the end I got 400mins, 1000 text, unlimited calls to O2 mobile, FREE phone for £30/month. Was on 18 month contract tho.

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  • 2008-02-13 17:42
  • m9Wx
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To the person who wrote the following:
"I order mine today on a 12 month contact £30 600mins 500text plus fone was FREE...i should have it wednsday waiting for me at home...."
Sb asked again, but there was not reply, how did you get this offer? Is it a new customer offer? I'm an existing member, and they told me £35 for 18 months and I have to pay £50 for the phone (UK-O2).

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  • 2008-02-13 11:24
  • mCSQ
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Following the last comment , Ive had mine for a week and its a great little phone , but battery life will be a problem I fear . When you open the back its easy to see why , the battery is tiny ,an hour on the tube with music on takes the battery from 100% down to 60 % . Co pilot is good but I want to put Tom Tom on it as the last post did.The touch flow is very good but the speed is noticeably slower than my old XDA11i ( embarrassing !!! )All in all Im very happy though well done HTC.

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  • 2008-02-10 22:26
  • nFUL
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Had my orbit II 6 days know, loaded tomtom 6 on it (very good, had tomtom 5 on my 1st orbit much better than copilot)New features such as the "quick list" and "touchflo" are great improvements on the old orbit.The fact that the micro sd card is acessed externaly shows HTC are listning.However some issues remain a problem, although the camera has been upgraded 3.2mega pixels (other pda/phones have 5mp) it does not perform well in anything except very good light levels.Also the high SAR value will put some people off, in this day & age seems unnecessary.

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  • 2008-02-10 19:18
  • 0FX6
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does anyone know how to get this orbit2 on a cheaper tariff than £45 with 600mins and 1000 text through o2
cheers

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  • 2008-02-10 14:14
  • 3H7G
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This handset is a massive dissapointment! Total touchscreen that is about as touchsensitive as my husband!

The sat nav is slow and takes forever to determine it's current location (I thought I'd try it out on a short run of about a mile or so - by the time it had decided where I was and set off I'd arrived at the destination. Also my mother in law (posh bird!!!) lives in a village with no street names just house names - this crashed the system. Isn't it these odd places where a sat nav would be most useful?

As a mac user it was pointless to try and sync this with the computer. But it did find four or five neighbours BT home hubs - pity I don't now their passwords?!!

Battery life is pants - it ran to 1/2 battery in just 1 day and no calls were made in that time.

Weight wise, yes it's heavyish but what do you expect for a pocket PC.

The games are cool but nothing you can't get beat with a DS.

Pity cause it came with so much promise. 3/10

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  • 2008-02-10 13:21
  • my{X
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tis phone function same as htc ?

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  • 2008-02-09 08:53
  • ibb@
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the pda is cool, i have it already couple of weeks.

But i should say, that the camera, altough good, drops to a 2 frames when the day is little bit rainy.( not enough light ) That makes it almost useles. Also the autofocus needs the sun, if not, it takes a min to focus.

Its bit slow, with scroll in the programs, surfing the net. You could actualy see, how the interface gets drawn of the screen.

But, if better drivers come along, its hammer.

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  • 2008-02-08 21:27
  • nsm$
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@ RIC -
"i order mine today on a 12 month contact £30 600mins 500text plus fone was FREE"
Please can you tell me where you got this deal from? thanks

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  • 2008-02-08 12:41
  • nFBk
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only disadvantage is its not so good as a touch screen if it was between this and htc cruise i would go for the cruise.shame itdoes not have tomtom nav on it.apart from thst contract o2 1000 free mins across any mobile network 1500 free messages and 10 free o2 mobile to mobile for 40.00pounds direct from o2

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  • 2008-02-07 22:00
  • pJxk
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sat nav very good better than obit.it has nite view,day view,plus much more to offer ..i wud say the obit 2 is the phone better than stella by far i had stella on trial but diddnt like it obit2 the phone for me........

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  • 2008-02-07 20:44
  • MSRn
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got my phone now its a good phone the only thing they are missing is the time,whether, on screen but htc has it live htc home ...but hay the phones worth every penny tho it was free..

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  • 2008-02-06 21:28
  • MSRn
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