New Contract...Samsung Galaxy SII / Sensation / Other?

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Hi guys, firstly my appologies for starting yet another spec me a contract thread! :)

Just coming to the completion of my 24 month contract on T-Mobile.

T-Mobile G2 Touch (HTC Hero)
900 Mins
500 Texts
3GB Internet

£25.00 per month.

My current handset is starting to feel very sluggish and has developed a faulty screen so will be sending it off for repair and using the phone as a spare or selling it later.

So I'm after a new contract and don't mind switching providers but really want value for money. I don't play games on my phone and it's really used mainly for browsing/emails/actual phone calls. I have a Google Mail account and am comfortable with Android so would prefer to stick with it rather an iOS or Win7.

Just rang up T-Mobile and the best they could offer me was,

Sim Only 12 month contract
600 Minutes
500 Texts
3GB Internet
+1 Additional Booster

£9.32 per month

Will have to buy a handset right out. Seen a few go on AVForums/Gumtree for around £250-270 - is this worth it, seems risky to me with regards to warranty/insurance scams etc!:(

In terms of a new handset they were offering roughly a Galaxy SII for £120-80 up front cost and then £25-30 per month.

Ideally I'm after a contract which is around £20-25 month and around 600 mins.

Affordable mobiles have got a decent contract on 3-mobile which I'm considering (link):

3 Mobile
900 Minutes
5000 Texts
1GB Internet

£79.99 Handset cost and £20.00 per month (-£60 Quidco)
Total £500 (after cashback)

Thats the best I can find at the minute. Any advice is welcome as I really don't know enough about these things.

Also any other phones worth considering. After something with a nice screen and feels responsive and snappy.

Finally,

Thanks very much for reading!:)
 
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Thanks for the suggestion. That deal looks good too. Not that much in it between that one and the one from three. Quite a few SGSII's knocking around on the likes of Gumtree etc.

What kind of things should I be looking out for when looking at them?
 
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. The Galaxy Nexus does look nice but it is a little bit more expensive than I'd ideally like to be paying to be honest but will keep an eye out for deals on this.

As for Samsung Galaxy S3, I would presume it would priced pretty close to the Nexus if not a bit more wouldn't it? Again making it a bit more than I'd like. I know the SGSII has been around for while and from reading a few reviews of the Nexus it doesn't add that much more. Is the S3 likely to be much different?

At the moment the Three Mobile deal is the most tempting largely because of the guranteed warranty on the phone. Just missed out on a brand new SGSII for £250 which would have been nice.
 
Shadow, if you want to stick with t-mobile, ring them back up and request your pac code, ignore any offer they try and give you to keep you, as they won't be the best they can do, but its the best the staff at that stage can do.

Few hours to a few days later, outbound retention will call you, and they are the best people at t-mobile to be able to give you better deals. They have more leway to give better deals and so on to keep people, but they will only ever call if you have requested a pac code.
 
Cheers. Yeah, I did ask the girl if I could give notice of cancellation toady (contract runs out in exactly one month) and request my PAC code but she said the sim only offer she offered wouldn't be valid anymore. From searching around it looks like isn't that much better than what I could get else where as a new customer anyway. The one thing I'd quite like to stick with is the 3GB download limit...having said that don't T-mobile offer unlimited browsing (I really don't download much at all) and have only ever hit the 3GB limit once in the last two years when I used to stream BBC iplayer? :confused:
 
T-mobiles normal contracts now have a 500mb limit, but unlimited browsing, so you would take a hit on the download side, unless you went sim only, then bought the phone.

I would say 3's one plan is probably one of the best as you get enormous amounts of mins/txts and unlimited data, but that is £35p/m though so a tenner over what you have been paying.
 
the thing is, if I were you I will call back t-mobileand tell them about the offers, if they don't do anything its their loss.
 
Was thinking that too. What about going for the one from three,

900 Minutes
5000 Texts
1GB Internet

£79.99 Handset cost and £20.00 per month (-£60 Quidco)
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And adding all you can eat data for £3 /month if I go over 1GB?

Will call up T-mobile now to cancel contract as well I think.

Cheers folks, massive help so far.
 
+1 for requesting PAC code and waiting for a call back. I did this recently with Vodafone and haggled the bejesus out of them.
 
Or if you are thinking of the sim only route still then...

Talk Mobile (Vodafone network)
SIMple - £8/mo 6 months contract - 300mins, 1000txt, 500MB - £30 cashback - effictively £3/mo
 
So have been offered the following when I called up,

HTC Sensation XE (free)
600 Mins
500 Texts
3GB Internet
+1 Booster
24 months, £25/m
Total £600

Samsung Galaxy SII (£80 one off cost)
600 Mins
500 Texts
3GB Internent
+1 Booster
24 months, £20/m
Total £560

Samsung Galaxy SII (£130 one off cost)
300 Mins
500 Texts
3GB Internet
+1 Booster (unlimited T-mobile calls)
24 months £15/m
Total £490

The final one is tempting if I can haggle down the one off price of the handset, as 90% of my calls are to my fiance who is on T-mobile and gets unlimited T-mobile to T-mobile calls too.
 
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Robbo said:
You should be trying to get a Galaxy Nexus if possible, it's slightly more expensive than the SII/Sensation but overall it's a superior device.
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Well that's rather subjective I think, as I've mentioned before I have both devices but the SGSII is superior in every single way apart from the screen. The camera is much better on the SGS2, the wifi is much better, games like GTA III aren't a terrible framerate like on my Nexus.

Once the "wow if I put my eyes 1 inch away from the screen the pixels look so nice" :p effect of the Nexus wear off it is the inferior device by far in my eyes. If I had to get rid of one it would be the Nexus every time. Try CM9 on an SGS2 and you'll see. With the hardware buttons of the S2 as well this more than makes up for the slightly smaller screen, and you don't have annoying soft buttons in the way all the time.
 
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Em3bbs said:
Well that's rather subjective I think, as I've mentioned before I have both devices but the SGSII is superior in every single way apart from the screen. The camera is much better on the SGS2, the wifi is much better, games like GTA III aren't a terrible framerate like on my Nexus.

Once the "wow if I put my eyes 1 inch away from the screen the pixels look so nice" :p effect of the Nexus wear off it is the inferior device by far in my eyes. If I had to get rid of one it would be the Nexus every time. Try CM9 on an SGS2 and you'll see.
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I know that's your position, but I very much disagree. :)
 
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