Thread: 3G phones in Europe
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2008-04-25 , 16:35
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Originally Posted by cybernut View Post
A friend wants a "small-single-package-does-all" solution for a phone before he goes to Europe (Spain/Italy/France) this summer. It should be capable of being a phone, media player, email with a wifi connection, camera, gps etc. I was trying to convince him that the N8X0 along with a standard cell phone would be a good solution. But he was adamant it has to be small and one unit. Any suggestions?

1. The next part of the discussion was on where to buy it - here (Canada) or in Europe i.e. the price for a typical unit e.g. Nokia N95 is about $500 Cdn/USD. What is the typical price over there?
Probably more than that I would guess. It is hard to tell as you generally just get them free with contracts, so you never know how much it really costs. I would suspect it is more than canada as leftpondian money isn't worth much so stuff is more expensive here.

Don't know how much non contract charges would be either (generally higher than contract) but I gather that europes data is quite expensive (compared to here, ie the uk).
Probably a look on the orange/t-mobile/vodaphone will give you a good guidline on prices.

Edit:
Had a look at orange.fr, and the n95 is more expensive there, so best get it where you are. Prices would depend on which country you are in though, so hard to generalise.
Last edited by tabletrat; 2008-04-25 at 16:47.