what type of mobile phone have you got?

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Looking for a new one.. pay as you go probably.
My last one is very antiquated, so without being too 'boysy'iykwim, which would you recommend?

i have got a samsung e700 on pay as you go....smart little camera flip phone. Gone down in price a lot as well since the new one came out. I love mine though.

Why don't you get a Vodafone contract one- they have a fantastic offer on at the moment if you order it online- 100 minutes plus 40 or 50 texts a month for £15. You only have to have the contract for 18mths. It's the online 100 package. here's the link

useful link pixiefish. I am looking for a new phone myself and I haven't got a clue what to get. Was thinking of staying PAYG but that offer is very tempting!

I got it when you only had to subscribe for a year so it costs £180 for me- I couldn't get the camera phone I wanted for that money- This offer will cost you £270- plus you get all the chat... you really should just work out how much you pay for your phone and then calls/texts on top- to me it's well worth it- BUT i'm only tied in for a year... plus you never run out of credit... and my bills aren't that bad but they do go over the £15 sometimes... I just have to remember to use the call counter thing

Try dial a phone they seem to have the best deals.
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3 has a v good deal atm if you go through e2save.com . Videocamera phone with 500 any time/network minutes and 100 texts for £15 a month for 12 months (actually £30, but you pay ½ price for the first 3 months and then get a rebate later for the other 9 months, plus £50 cashback). It is a great phone, DS1 has it, and 3 uses O2's network so has good coverage I think.

However if you really want payg Virgin is good. With them you can have a payg deal but with a direct debit so you don't have to put credit on yourself - they send you an itemised bill each month. They have "reconditioned" phones very cheap here - (DS2 has one from there, it was half-price and effectively new)

I've got a sony ericcson camera phone on O2 30 monthly tariff. Whilst I can recommend O2 and the calling aspect of the phone, I wouldn't bother with the camera bit at all. The quality is so poor that I really don't think that it's worth the extra money. Don't know what other people think about the camera phones and I have nothing to compare it with. (It is DH's cast off when he upgraded to a motorola V600 - has to be blue tooth for him as he needs the phone in the car sometimes - well that was his excuse anyway!!)

I have a Motorola V600 on Orange Talk120 - 120 minutes for £25pm (double talk time for 6 months). I got £50 trade in for old phone and £50 for joining them,.

orange have some good plans at the moment - £15 for 120 minutes and some texts (30 maybe) and the free phones are good - motorola v500 camera one is nice
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ks, learn to text and stick with Virgin, then you can communicate with DH for 3p a time!

I hate my phone, it's a Motorola, payg with Vodafone - looks quite nice but doesn't do what I need it to! It requires loads of confirmation buttons to be pressed to send a txt - my last one needed 2 clicks, where this one needs 10 Also from time to time the recipient gets gibberish (string of random symbols) instead of my normal eloquent prose. I've no idea why?! Also my old phone would tell me when the txt had been read, not just delivered. This one doesn't. Also it will let me have a special tone for dh or school calling, but only if I have that tone for texts from him as well, and it keeps playing it until I press the button, which means I can't have it on at work.

Means I spend less on it though!

Both Dh and I had a video camera phone from 3 and had to get rid of it. DH had 3 faults in a year and the phone had to go back to 3 to be fixed, and each time he was 3 days without a phone. Half the time mine was unuseable, kept rebooting and the coverage is rubbish unless you are in London. The phone was great, just coverage and customer service was bad. Just swapped with O2 who we were with originally, just went to 3 to get the video stuff, now back with 02 and everything great.

A little silver one. Motorola I think?

You mean you never talk to him when he's not there, ks?

I have a Nokia one. On contract with BT Mobile. Has so far been much cheaper for us than our previos O2 and Orange contracts. Dh and I have a phone each, but have the same contract - we share our mnutes/texts, etc. Works well.

At my school when we were aged 14 we were permitted to have "village leave" and go to the village to make purchases during break time. But we were not allowed to eat any of those purchases standing in the street = the height of vulgarity. I STILL feel very guilty eating anything in the street!

My MUM wouldn't allow me to eat in the street

Or play on the front doorstep!

The thing is I never think anyone else is being rude or vulgar when I see them eating in the street, it's just what I think of myself!

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