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The cake is a lie

You should play portal! It is excellent, and you will understand the cake.

The eye fiend

Me too

I also like eyes

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What's with the cake? Why is it a lie? Is there no cake? I would like cake.

Bank Just Rang, Wants My Personal Information

The eye fiend

I like eyes

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Wow, that's pretty special. At least mine didn't want all that from me!

I had a very similar thing - I received a letter from Abbey asking me to send lots of personal information (date of birth, signature, account number, sort code) to an address in Andover. And if I had any questions, I should call a number which wasn't the standard Abbey customer service.

I thought it was suspicious, so called the standard number, but it turns out that it was totally legitimate. I decided to no longer be a customer of Abbey!

Well it was a good job they didn't block it altogether, I had to use it the next morning to buy my train ticket!

But yes, they really should ask you to call them back - on the ones hand they're preaching to never hand out personal information, and the next they're ringing you up asking for it.

And then they complain when you get phished :p

That is quite a strange thing to do. They really should ask you to call them back instead, which would be so much more convincing.

In Denmark, they just block your card, and hope you notice, apparently. It happened to a friend of mine, which was quite all right since he hadn't made the attempted transfers.

100 days to Christmas!

I know you've already read my N95 negative review. I should probably post the positive version sometime soon, so it'll be a bit more fair - but in all honesty, I am quite happy with my N95!

Ah, yes, you are right! And I guess getting a new phone and adding a web+walk package wouldn't count as a new tariff, so I'd be ok.

Hmm... will wait for the 8gb N95 then! Apparently there are minor cosmetic improvements, better battery, and twice as much ram making the menu more responsive. No camera lens cover, but I'm not really bothered about taking photos with it - hope to get a Canon DSLR soon (EOS-400D).

Bud

Didn't you sign up when it was the 25% off for life providing you dont change tarrif? That was the deal I was on.

Oh, and a new version just came out in the USA, didn't it; bigger battery, better interface etc. Not sure I want to pay £250 for an obsolete version when they'll probably update them here soon.

If I could I'd wait it out, but the my contract is up at the end of the month, and it'll go up by 25% unless I persuade them to let me sign up to another 25% deal, but that's only running until October.

Mmm, I'm with t-mobile, but on their cheapest tarrif, so am looking at ~£250 iirc.

Am very tempted by it. Mmm, 3g interwebs on the train. Of course, I'd still have to battle with the keypad to type urls in, so not sure how happy I'd be with that. Noticed you can get a keyboard for it though... ;)

Bud

The n95 comes with an ickle battery charger, smaller than most 13 amp plugtops. When I am in the car I have it connected to the car charger so its not too bad.

The n95 is pricey but its so nice, but T-Mobile gave me a very good price for one when I renewed the very first the handset was out.

They did say they fixed it with the 6288, but apparently that still has a lot of the old problems.

Battery life is the one thing that worries me about the N95 - I can see myself having to carry a battery charger around with me all day. Well, battery life and the price :p

Bud

Well, I liked my 6280 at first but as it got older it started having odd faults like it being restricted at startup (thinking your sim isn't one allowed with the simlock). Although I tried a firmware update with the nokia software on it and turned it into a brick :-P

David

Definitely avoid the 6280... worst Nokia phone I've used. (Apart from creeky's gold covered one with the 1980s era ringtones)

Bud

I have the n95 and I like it. Very nice phone. Not used the GPS much on it but a word of warning - battery life isn't great on them, I have to charge mine nearly every day or every 2 days a far cry from the 6310i which used to only need charged every 7 days!

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