Recommendations for pay as you go mobile for teenage boy?

[mumblechum]

Am going to buy new mobile for ds's 13th birthday.

Must be mucho flasho, all bells & whistles

Must not require more than 30 seconds glance at instruction booklet (has penis, doesn't do instructions)

Small budget, no more than £100.

What do your teenagers have that might fit the bill??

All replies much appreciated - head is spinning from carphone warehouse website

No idea, but DS1, 13 next month wants a new phone.

My budget is lower if I can get away with it .

Will be watching this thread with interest.

My ds has motorola razr which was half price in argos and was £50.Has all the latest stuff on it and must be fairly easy towork out

Cheers Noddy. Do I understand from your "must be easy to work out" comment that you have a low estimation of your ds's intelligence?

He is not keen on instruction booklets thats for sure.But he had it up and running in minutes.It is matt black adn quite slim and has a camera etc.very nice actually compared to my nokia which is ancient!

go on the virgin mobile website click pay as you go options and go for the lobster tv phone.....its got a tv on it and a dab radio.....half price 50 quid and if u buy today they knock another tenner off it....200 free minutes as well

wow they both sound brilliant for the money (have somehow got sucked into spending megabucks on party, so trying to save on the present).

Ta.

My dd wants a sony ericsson W810 (or something like that anyway). It is an MP3 player (sony walkman) and also has a video camera and camera. The memory is also big enought to store quite a few songs.

Apparently these are all the rage at the minute and I have been looking for one. You can buy it for £80 at Virgin, which isn't too bad.

don't spend a lot FGS. my three have all had mobile phones and now have lost or broken them with in a year - so balls to that.

Don't get an LG. DS got one and its had 3 new batteries in a year, none of which lasted more than four hours on standby. Total crap.

I've got an LG and it lasts for ages on standby, lol.

Mumblechum, what are you doing for his party?

For his party, we're hiring a sort of activity centre on the river for raft building, kayaking and barbecue.

I think for his pressie we'll go for the sony ericsson thingummy. Was thinking of Heelys but they seem to stop at size 5 & he's a size 9.

That sounds great. DS would enjoy something like that.

When's his birthday?

3rd Sept, few days before they go back to school

Ha Ha - we are all looking forward to September already!

I usually look forward to the 6 weeks - not with this weather though

Off to buy ds's first mobile this weekend, will look up these recommendations.

try tesco too - dislike tesco's with a vengence but they had good deals on mobiles when i bought ds2's at christmas - he has a flashy blue flip lid motorola - with a better camera on it than i have as a standalone was £60 and his calls are pretty cheap too.