Phone for my wife?

funkyphantom · 9 Mar 2013 at 08:38

Its mobile upgrade time for the wife. She currently uses a Samsung Omnia 7. So she's used to windows phones. However she did say she could be tempted over to Android. She says my galaxy s3 is too big. What would you suggest she looks at? She doesn't want iPhone.
She uses it mainly for texting calling and taking pictures.
Thanks

Robzere31 · 9 Mar 2013 at 08:41

funkyphantom said:
Its mobile upgrade time for the wife. She currently uses a Samsung Omnia 7. So she's used to windows phones. However she did say she could be tempted over to Android. She says my galaxy s3 is too big. What would you suggest she looks at? She doesn't want iPhone.
She uses it mainly for texting calling and taking pictures.
Thanks

In a similar spot myself, wife has a HTC Desire S, & wants a good upgrade but my note 2 is far to big for her.
I've looked at the S3 mini as a replacement, but unsure if it will last 2 year's until her next upgrade.

funkyphantom · 9 Mar 2013 at 08:45

Robzere31 said:
In a similar spot myself, wife has a HTC Desire S, & wants a good upgrade but my note 2 is far to big for her.
I've looked at the S3 mini as a replacement, but unsure if it will last 2 year's until her next upgrade.

Same here mate, I don't think the s3 mini is the way to go, if the Galaxy Ace is anything to go by.

4T5 · 9 Mar 2013 at 08:50

Nokia 800 or 920 ?

funkyphantom · 9 Mar 2013 at 08:53

ya was thinking 920 mate, and i think that fits her well. But would rather get her over to android if i could.

paradisiac · 9 Mar 2013 at 09:20

the 620 looks like a nice small windows phone. i have the 820 and it really nice, so can only imagine the 920 will be good.
although looking at here the S3 is a better (spec wise) phone and a bit lighter, and only 0.3" bigger so that does look like your best bet if you want android. although the new sony range looks pretty good.

funkyphantom · 9 Mar 2013 at 09:25

Ahh for some reason I thought the 920 was smaller. Might be worth waiting for the s4 if she could compromise the size?

Psycho Sonny · 9 Mar 2013 at 09:30

Nexus 4 surely?

it's the best bang for buck phone out there in the £200+ price range.

slap paranoid android on it and your sorted, you can get s line wave cases for as little as £1.50 off ebay, or more rugged cases for as little as £3.80 off ebay (shipped from america for free).

it has every feature going apart from LTE.

it has the biggest development community going.

it's drivers are fully open source meaning custom ROM's are silky smooth.

she can then switch to sim only like giff/gaff for a tenner a month, who I have had for a while now and their service has been brilliant, only suffered once when the whole O2 network went down for a day (first time ever this has happened as i can recall). although coverage is not the best in some places, i still get a signal everywhere and when you hit town centres or city centres the data flies.

250 x-net mins, unlimited texts, unlimited giff gaff mins and unlimited internet for £12 a month

funkyphantom · 9 Mar 2013 at 09:41

Can you get these on contract?

Psycho Sonny · 9 Mar 2013 at 09:52

funkyphantom said:
Can you get these on contract?

why would you want to? you could change your deal at any time to a better one if it pops up, free of charge, your only locked in for 30 days at a time. you could also upgrade the phone whenever you want.

funkyphantom · 9 Mar 2013 at 09:53

Because thats what ive asked for?

Psycho Sonny · 9 Mar 2013 at 09:54

funkyphantom said:
Because thats what ive asked for?

you asked for a mobile upgrade, this is one.

many people have switched over to this option because it has a lot more advantages and works out cheaper.