Have been looking at PAYG vs pay monthly, they all have drawbacks.
I'm going to be making a seriously low/non-existent amount of outgoing calls from my phone (when I buy it). It will mainly be used as an emergency phone for people to contact me.
I would like to use it with Google maps as a basic satnav. There will be a little browsing going on, but apart from Gmaps very little of that either.
Now my first thought was PAYG would be best. When I was a uni student I used PAYG - even back then contract was the norm. However these days it seems any money you put on your phone expires after 30 days, including any data allowance, and most require you to top up £10 min?
Which means there's little difference between PAYG and pay monthly :/ A bit of a scam, tbh, having expiry dates on your topped up credit.
Because I would probably not use £10 worth of talk time in 6 months! The data bit I honestly don't know. I'm not sure, having not had to worry about this previously, how much data Gmaps will rinse through (including viewing satellite imagery, which cannot be pre-cached/downloaded to the phone like regular maps can, say for the whole of Cornwall).
The cheapest pay monthly tariff I looked at was £6.50 (12 months 1/2 price offer) from TT, with 400 mins (will be 99% unused!), 5000 texts (I never text!) and 1gig data. And that tariff goes up to £13 after 12 months (only 12 month contract tho, so can cancel). Even that is overkill for my usage. They do a £4 tariff but only 300mb data, not sure if I'll need more data...
The trouble is that as far as I can see, the more expensive tariffs have more talk time (which I don't need) rather than being able to take more data and keep talk time low.
I guess I don't use my phone like 99% of people do. Or nearly as much as others do.
I'm going to be making a seriously low/non-existent amount of outgoing calls from my phone (when I buy it). It will mainly be used as an emergency phone for people to contact me.
I would like to use it with Google maps as a basic satnav. There will be a little browsing going on, but apart from Gmaps very little of that either.
Now my first thought was PAYG would be best. When I was a uni student I used PAYG - even back then contract was the norm. However these days it seems any money you put on your phone expires after 30 days, including any data allowance, and most require you to top up £10 min?
Which means there's little difference between PAYG and pay monthly :/ A bit of a scam, tbh, having expiry dates on your topped up credit.
Because I would probably not use £10 worth of talk time in 6 months! The data bit I honestly don't know. I'm not sure, having not had to worry about this previously, how much data Gmaps will rinse through (including viewing satellite imagery, which cannot be pre-cached/downloaded to the phone like regular maps can, say for the whole of Cornwall).
The cheapest pay monthly tariff I looked at was £6.50 (12 months 1/2 price offer) from TT, with 400 mins (will be 99% unused!), 5000 texts (I never text!) and 1gig data. And that tariff goes up to £13 after 12 months (only 12 month contract tho, so can cancel). Even that is overkill for my usage. They do a £4 tariff but only 300mb data, not sure if I'll need more data...
The trouble is that as far as I can see, the more expensive tariffs have more talk time (which I don't need) rather than being able to take more data and keep talk time low.
I guess I don't use my phone like 99% of people do. Or nearly as much as others do.
Going to have to find some way to allow data, but restrict when and how it uses it. Gadgets, eh.