Fido outs Nokia 5200

For the brave souls willing to sign away the next three years of their life to a carrier, Fido's rendition of Nokia's 5200 slider seems like a pretty darned good deal. $25 Canadian (about $23) nets you the music-centric handset, featuring a VGA cam, Class 10 EDGE, Bluetooth, and microSD expansion with Nokia's ubiquitous but solid Series 40 backing up the whole package. Fido sweetens the deal by throwing in a 1GB card, too. Looking pretty good in black, ain't it?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 21st 2007 12:46AM]

3 year contract! YIKES! I'm proud to be an American...except why is canada getting the cool phones :?

[derX Posted Aug 21st 2007 1:43AM]

...*lowers glasses* you call this cool?

[Omagus Posted Aug 21st 2007 11:22AM]

What do you mean? You can get almost exactly the same phone from T-Mobile, it's called the 5300. You won't get it in black, but you do upgrade from VGA to 1.3 megapixels. And at most it's a two-year deal and last I heard it was also sold with a 1gb card.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 21st 2007 1:15AM]

3 year contracts are a big kick in the nuts.. especially with ECFs costing up to $700, and the voice plans are mediocre at best, and data plans are 3rd world structured.. plus Fido's owner Rogers requires a 3 year data contract with certain PDA discounts.. yikes.

Then again.. you can sometimes get decent retention deals with these carriers..

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 21st 2007 1:59AM]

@ DerX,
i bet you have really cool glasses ;)