New Phones on Meteor?

Ay Cee

Hey all,
Any body know what the likely phones are to be released on Meteor? (Chrislad?:))They're selection of phones in the last year have been brutal! I asked the guy in the shop when they had new phones coming in and he see October.

I'm looking to get a new phone I don't want to wait until October some time if the selection is going to be equally sh1te.

eamon234

Been asking this for weeks - no-one seems to know

dmn

hey guys,
just noticed that the meteor phone section has been updated to include a few new handsets. It seems that it is being updated while i was checking it, because the page layout changed a few times and some phones were added first with broken links and then with correct one. Nothing overly exciting really, but take a look for yourself. I kinda like the samsung f200, but they only seem to have it in pink

foggy_lad

samsung f200? do you mean e200? they have NO decent phones just over-priced walkman rubbish about 6 different phones all with exact same features yet some €89 and others €229

chrislad

The following phones will be available in the next few weeks (before the end of Oct, in all probability)

Motorla V8 (Exclusive to Meteor)
Sony Ericsson W580i
Nokia 5700
Nokia 7373 (Pink)
Nokia E65
Samsung F200

Prices are in the new catalog. The V8 is coming in at 129, the 5700 at 79 and the W580i at 29. The F200 is 179 PaYG, 29 Bill. All bill prices are Talk 300 and higher. For lower plans, generally add 20e to the price.

eamon234

FFS still all 2mp phones with all the same features I've been waiting two months to upgrade 'cos the phones are crap - think I'll change networks altogether now I'm tired of waiting

DonFred

If you happy with meteor I would wait until at least Nov cause I have a feeling the new Samsung G600 will be on meteor it has a 5meg pix cam! Im holding out for it anyhow.

chrislad

In all fairness, 2mp seems to be the standard.

Vodafone have 4 phones above 2 MP. K800i can hardly be considered new. The N73 is a similar age. They also have the N95 and the 7390. Everything else is 2.0 or less.

O2 have the K800i, N95 and the 7390 as well. Everything else is 2.0 or lower.

Meteor only have the U600 with a 3.2 camera, and they have the older D900 with a 3.0 camera. Everything else is 2.0 or less.

You're not going to find a huge amount of new phones elsewhere, bar the N95 and 7390 at the moment. Sony are in a bit of a rut with every phone they release being a rehash of the last (to name but a few being the K750i, W800i, W810i, W610i, W850i, W580i, K550i etc). Motorola are the same (being the K1, Z6 and V8), and so are Nokia (again, the 6300, 6233, 7373 and the 6131, 5300 and 6111 were fairly similar)

It's not the networks as such, the phone market has just been a bit slow. You either have the massively expensive newer ones (like the N95) or rehashes o the older ones.

dmn

chrislad wrote:

The following phones will be available in the next few weeks (before the end of Oct, in all probability)

Motorla V8 (Exclusive to Meteor)
Sony Ericsson W580i
Nokia 5700
Nokia 7373 (Pink)
Nokia E65
Samsung F200

Prices are in the new catalog. The V8 is coming in at 129, the 5700 at 79 and the W580i at 29. The F200 is 179 PaYG, 29 Bill. All bill prices are Talk 300 and higher. For lower plans, generally add 20e to the price.

Is the Nokia E65 a definite? I saw a new Meteor billboard yesterday with a lineup of their new handsets, and dont remember seeing the E65.
This would be the only phone of the above lineup I would have any interest in. And that's just because it has wifi, otherwise I don't think I'd be too ecxited about it.

chrislad

E65 is in the current catalog so I guess they're getting it.

FergalBoards.ie

It is true that the manufacturers are not pushing out very exciting new models at the moment, however I'm pretty shocked by the lack of the N95.

There's two ways of looking at Meteor, one is as a second-tier, bargain basement network.

The other is as a Metro-oriented (ie covers cities very well) challenge to the established networks.

I have always taken the second view, but lately Meteor is disappointing me a lot.

3G has been around a long long time. It is suited to the urban environment. Location-based hardware has been around a long time.

Sure, not many manufacturers have come out with sensible offerings, but Nokia have. It's there. No excuses.

Is there really no good reason for Meteor not to have it?

It doesn't bode well in my opinion for their future 3G offerings not to have it.

dmn

FergalBoards.ie wrote:

It is true that the manufacturers are not pushing out very exciting new models at the moment, however I'm pretty shocked by the lack of the N95.

There's two ways of looking at Meteor, one is as a second-tier, bargain basement network.

The other is as a Metro-oriented (ie covers cities very well) challenge to the established networks.

I have always taken the second view, but lately Meteor is disappointing me a lot.

3G has been around a long long time. It is suited to the urban environment. Location-based hardware has been around a long time.

Sure, not many manufacturers have come out with sensible offerings, but Nokia have. It's there. No excuses.

Is there really no good reason for Meteor not to have it?

It doesn't bode well in my opinion for their future 3G offerings not to have it.

I have gotten very disappointed with Meteor in the past year. And I have thought about moving several times, but as I said before, most my friends are on Meteor too, so I'm only staying because of the free texts. Terrible that they have nothing solid to offer people like me that want good quality phones and not a catalog of "budget priced" models, and up to date services such as 3G and mobile broadband. I kinda wish they took the free texts away so I would no longer have a reason to remain a meteor customer.

Pythia

FergalBoards.ie wrote:

Is there really no good reason for Meteor not to have it?

It doesn't bode well in my opinion for their future 3G offerings not to have it.

They only got their 3G license fairly recently, so that's probably why they haven;t implemented it yet.

Ay Cee

I asked one of the staff in one of the Meteor Shops about the E65. She said it's only being trialed for business customers for now and might be rolled out for general users then depending on the reaction.

Mitch Connor

I was hoping the SE K850i, SE W960i or the Samsung U600 would make an appearence on the payg range, but no. Oh well.

Looks like i will have to go the sim-free route.