As I have previously blogged, I am the proud owner of a Motorola A1200 Ming smartphone.
It is not officially available in the UK and I had to import it from HK. My good friend Lua Meng brought one back with her when she returned from HK last time.
Without GPRS is it simply a phone with a touchscreen and no keypad. With GPRS it is pretty amazing. Notably it has:
- a version of MSN messenger
- a version of the Opera browser
- ability to download and run Java client apps, such as the Gmail mobile client (which worked first time!)
Here is the link to how the phone can be set up for GPRS. I would strongly urge you not to bother calling O2 as they are bound to refuse to help since this phone is not officially supported. In my case I cannot get technical support since the contract is in someone else's name (don't ask).
