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N95 8GB
By Huw Leslie | August 21, 2008
I’m the proud owner of a new Nokia N95 8GB as an upgrade from 3. I wasn’t actually due for an upgrade, but received a letter from 3 telling me that they were changing the way they bill; specifically, they are now rounding up calls which last less than a minute to a whole minute for billing purposes. That didn’t bother me enormously, but I did remember reading that such a change would entitle me to cancel my contract.
Three were, for the most part, very helpful, apart from their bizarre attempts to downsell me. Usually anyone in telesales will try to persuade you that you need things which you don’t. In this case, two different operators separately tried to persuade me that I wouldn’t need the 8GB version, and that the original N95 was identical apart from the built-in memory of the 8GB model. That’s simply not true, but in any case you would have thought they would have been fighting to get me to spend the extra fiver a month the 8GB model will cost. On top of that, an operator tried to persuade me that I didn’t need the internet addon, again £5/month. I wasn’t wavering - I told him I needed it - and he proceeded to tell me why I didn’t. If 3 had had its own way, I would be paying them a total of £180 less over the course of the contract!
So far (all of about twelve hours) the phone’s been great. In particular, I’m loving the camera and the screen. I had a S60 phone before, the 6120 Classic, but the N95 is out of its league. More when I’ve had more time to get to know it.
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Do you mind telling me what you were offered (numbe rof mins/texts and monthly cost).
I have recently received one and am wondering if the £5 addon is an essential requirement?
Posted by: James G on October 6th, 2008 at 8:46 am