Cheers for the advice, expansys looks like a good site and the Acers look good (and cheap!)
Could be like those cheap Android tablets which look like a Samsung until you actually try to use them. So yeah, always go with the reviews.
Daft question this probably. Since moving house, I no longer have mobile phone coverage in much of the house (irritating as my phone goes straight to answering machine). Other than borrowing various people's phones and checking how strong the signal is, is there a way of seeing which (if any?) network might be worth switching to? I'm on Orange and am just about out of contract...Also, does anyone who has had both an iphone4s and iphone5 reckon there's much difference?P.S. Orange's coverage checker reckons 'Very Good' for calls and internet http://studio.orange.co.uk/coveragechecker/
Oh, and EE (orange and T mobile) now share all masts and 3G..
Quote from: T_B on June 03, 2013, 02:06:27 pmDaft question this probably. Since moving house, I no longer have mobile phone coverage in much of the house (irritating as my phone goes straight to answering machine). Other than borrowing various people's phones and checking how strong the signal is, is there a way of seeing which (if any?) network might be worth switching to? I'm on Orange and am just about out of contract...Also, does anyone who has had both an iphone4s and iphone5 reckon there's much difference?P.S. Orange's coverage checker reckons 'Very Good' for calls and internet http://studio.orange.co.uk/coveragechecker/You can do a pretty good guessimate using the various coverage checkers combined with this...http://sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/searchFrustratingly they no longer update the dataset but it's still pretty good (other than for the combined Orange/T-Mobile network where they have taken out some duplicate masts)Work out which masts are closest to you, if necessary using streetview to see where the lines of sight are. If you give me your postcode I'll work it out.
I know nothing about the specs, but the SIII mini is great so far.
I'm about to buy one as my current phone's battery life is so poor.
enabled GPS and Strava and rode for 2:20 by which time the battery was down to 3%.
Quote from: nai on June 18, 2013, 08:05:28 amenabled GPS and Strava and rode for 2:20 by which time the battery was down to 3%.Slightly off topic, but do you know that you can run Strava etc. in flight mode and the GPS data will still record? Makes a huge difference the battery life, although obviously you can't see the maps until you turn off flight mode.