ok, i need some advice on my contract.

james.miller · 6 Jun 2006 at 17:47

Right, well. currently im stuck in an orange contract for another 12 months, and ive had nothing but trouble with them. for various reasons, its costing me too much. I lost my phone (6630) and they wanted £100 to replace it - its only £109 on PAYG :mad:

anyway, im stuck on a talk time 120 (£22) and currently have a 360txt message bundle (£20). I do txt a lot, and its costing me ~£65-£75 a month, which just isnt on when im stuck with an old phone (my c500).

The plan is to drop this to the bare contract (talk time 120) and take a new contract with somebody else. I've just found the xda mini s on o2 for £25 (100 minutes/500txts) p/month if i pay £50 for the phone. that looks pretty tasty. That would mean im paying £45-50 a month for the basic contracts, but id have more minuts more txt's AND a new phone. I cant go wrong, can i?

Two questions:
1) am i making the right desicison?
2) can i do better than the o2/xda mini s deal?

thanks for the help guys,
James

james.miller · 6 Jun 2006 at 20:55

anybody got any suggestions?

james.miller · 6 Jun 2006 at 22:25

That's ok, but im not gonna spend £30 a month on a PAYG sim when i can get a Mini S for £25p/month (100m/500t) or £30p/month (200m/500t). seems Silly to go payg and keep the battered phone ive had for the last 2 years

I'm concidering the w810i on contract as well. Nowhere near as flexable, but id get the phone free if i went for a £35p/month contract (750minutes+750txts). That makes a the payg option null and void imo.

james.miller · 6 Jun 2006 at 23:02

Yeah that's exactly where im at. no insurance at the time (i've learnt from that, dont worry lol) and a loooong time left on the contract. You also right that i cant change it to one of the new deals. even if i could - i wouldnt get a new phone. O2 are looking better by the day tbh. Id end up spending the same, getting more and getting a phone as well.

james.miller · 6 Jun 2006 at 23:10

LOL. it's alright for some

There must be a catch, surely

james.miller · 6 Jun 2006 at 23:24

no, me neither. flex 35 sounds interesting. £180 of credit per month for text's and calls. that's 1800 txt's lol,900 minutes of calls or a combination of both. Again the phone is £50, insurnce would take that up to £40p/month.

MDA vario on t-mobile: flex 35 - £180 flexible credit - £35p/month/£40 with insurance (free sat-nav)
XDA mini s: online200 - 200minutes / 500 texts - £30p/month/£35 with insurance.

The t-mobile looks stupidly good. the only catch? 18month contract. what to do lol

james.miller · 7 Jun 2006 at 17:12

thanks for the advice virii. SO there are no hidden costs with the flext tarrifs then? apart from the 18 months obviously? £180 credit a month is seriously tempting

james.miller · 7 Jun 2006 at 17:38

not much, no. Surfing on my phone is limited to a little msn on the move and searching google for words i dont know the meaning of

though i probably will take advantage of the wifi at every given opertunity, obviously lol.

james.miller · 7 Jun 2006 at 17:42

i definately like the look of the htc wizzard/mda vario/xda compact. It looks like the vario on flext 35 is the best option by far. The only other phone id consider is the w810i, but tbh id get board very quickly of it. I Like big screen and feature packed phones. The camera doesnt bother me at all, Ive got a fuji5500 for taking photos.

james.miller · 7 Jun 2006 at 17:53

the vario2 does look very nice

yeah the vario isnt on the t-mobile site. Best deal ive found so far is here

flext35 + web n' walk. £42.50 p.month with 4 months half price line rental (£21.25) handset free.

james.miller · 7 Jun 2006 at 18:16

that's right there are deals with co-pilot thrown in. oh the choices lol. 3g and the 300mhz samsung processor are what really attracts me to the varioII. There's no firm release date on it though, is there?

james.miller · 7 Jun 2006 at 18:46

i need it sooner tbh. orange is consting me too much. well, that and im impatient lol

james.miller · 7 Jun 2006 at 21:24

VIRII said:
What about a sim only tariff? Then upgrade the handset when Vario 2 is out?
The relax tariff would still save you lots of cash.

i'd get stung with the cost of the upgrade though, wouldnt i?

Aruffell said:
July for Vario 2 people

Andy

Reeeealy? any hard proof of that?i could possibly wait till july

james.miller · 7 Jun 2006 at 22:41

i can yeah, that was the plan all along - drop the text bundle and sort another method out. new contract is still looking the best by far though

james.miller · 8 Jun 2006 at 16:31

Aruffell said:
T-Mobile rep that came in the other day lol

Showed us some slide shows of the Nokia E61 too then the Nokia rep came in yesterday with a real one

Andy

very interesting...

Bes said:
whatever you do, go through a cashback site to make some free money when you take the contract out!!

oh ill get everything i can, dont worry about that lol.