Spec me a new phone

Peerzy

Peerzy

Peerzy

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Current contract is up this month so need a new phone.

Assume I know nothing apart from an iPhone is too expensive for me and I simply won't have any sort of blackberry, other than that I couldn't tell you what a HTC was or does or anything like that.

I'd like a stick pretty close to my current contract budget which is £20 for unlimited text, unlimited data (but my current phone isn't smart so I probably only use a few hundred meg a month at a guess) and 500 minutes.

I actually use very few minutes so I'd basically be looking for a nice/good phone for £20~ a month with unlimited texts, 100minutes and enough data to keep me happy.

Any ideas?

Oh phone use, Facebook, Twitter, BBC sport, won't listen to music, apps would be really nice (Angry birds :p ) erm youtube and a camera on the back. Other things would be nice but I don't really know what else I'd want. Battery only needs to last 24 hours max as I charge every night anyway. Current phone is a Sony Ericsson C903 to give you an idea of what I'm coming from!

Actually if the phone could play TV of some sort, I saw a guy on the train the other day and he had Sky Sports on his phone and it looked really good, if the Sky Sports thing was only a fiver a month or something I'd consider that.
 
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Well, you'll probably want to up your budget if possible to £25. This opens up the HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S as viable phone options.

They both run Android, which is as good as, if not better than iPhone/Blackberry, so you have no worries there. The HTC Desire HD (flagship Android phone) is on £30p/m contracts if you can stretch that far and is currently the best phone option on Android.

Windows Phone 7 might suit you but it doesn't have Angry Birds and the decent handsets tend to be more expensive at the moment (on contracts anyway).

As far as I know you can only play Sky on the iPhone and you need a full whack Sky package for it to work. You could stream the channels with Flash possibly but that would be hassle.

I outlined the Galaxy S vs Desire argument yesterday in another thread, which is here -

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18211414

Couple of sites for you to look at deals on (make sure they have data included, some dont) -

http://www.mobiles.co.uk/

http://www.buymobilephones.net/

Any more specific questions, ask :)
 
Cheers

Sod the Sky TV then, was just a thought.

I can push to £25 but no more really, I enjoy a phone but it's never top of my list of things and providing I can text, call and do the odd BBC and Facebook on it I'm happy really.

So basically for £25pp best to have a play round with the Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Desire and see which I prefer. I take it both phones would be free on like a 18 or 24month contract and wouldn't look too dated a year and half down the line?

Whats Andriod like as an OS, I always fancied jailbreaking an iPhone and getting all the stuff and remember running Symbion OS on an old Nokia back in the day and getting loads of Java apps free and such. Does everything have to go through an app store or am I free to play around and do what I want really?
 
Android is a fantastic OS. There is an App store known as the market but there is loads of free stuff there and its extremely fast to setup so I wouldn't worry about that.

If someone Jailbreaks an iPhone, they should have got an Android phone instead. Android even does more than a Jailbroken iPhone and the software that does it is vastly superior to the often terrible Jailbreak stuff.

Android is designed to be customisable, you have 7 home screens, on those you can put widgets, application shortcuts, allsorts.

You can make the phone look exactly how you want it to look, something that you cant really on any others to the same degree. Its not complicated at all, very simple and well polished (it wasn't when it was first released).

Look around the last few pages of this thread and you'll see all the different sort of variations you can have on Android - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18137383

Oh, and they wont look too dated in a years time, dont worry too much about that.
 
Brilliant cheers.

Any good contracts to look at or avoid?

I'm with 3 atm and have been for the last 2 phones, wouldn't care who I was with so is it worth talking to like Phones4u or whatever they're called to get me a good deal or phone up and speak to 3 and see if they will do me some sort of upgrade.


For 18months use on my current phone I've only made 14 hours of calls and 18000 texts so thats less than an hour a month and pretty much bang on 1000 texts (but this will be increasing). Data no idea as my phone only does crappy mobile pages but I assume 500mb will be enough?

Oh and when you say Samsung Galaxy which one are you referring to?

http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobile-phones/Samsung/30

The i9000?
 
500MB will be fine unless you plan on streaming a lot of internet radio and video. Your home Wifi is free obviously so you wont use any data when at home.

Yes, the Samsung Galaxy S (i9000) -

http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobile-phones/Samsung/Samsung-i9000-Galaxy-S/30,41056

Here is a quick example of a good deal (Just find one with unlimited texts, T-Mobile are great) -

http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobi...le/T-Mobile-25-(24mths)-inc.-Internet/6068711

Or any of these - http://www.mobiles.co.uk/samsung-galaxy-s.html

You can get the Desire on pretty much the exact same deals for the exact same price.
 
Go to a shop and try before you buy!

As Robbo said check out the Desire HD, Desire, Galaxy S and Motorola Defy.

All should be able to handle Sky player via the browser.

I trialled Sky Sports TV on my 3G. Not worth it for live games, that's why we have HD TVs/Pubs :) but its v.good for the news/highlights (back in the day before you needed to be a sky sports subscriber :( + I'm still gutted they stopped showing sky sports news from freeview, Grrr :(
 
Ha didn't even consider Wifi - I've never had a phone that could attach to Wifi. I run my work Wifi so Mon-Fri 8.30 till 4.30 I can just use that and obviously got it at home as well.

Never going to stream radio, and videos will be a few youtubes one every now and again.

T Mobile looked good but only 500 texts, think Orange appear to do a deal for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500mb for £25 which seems good.

Guess I'll have to play around with the two phones or find them on display in a shop and then pick the one I prefer.
 
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Go to a shop and try before you buy!

As Robbo said check out the Desire HD, Desire, Galaxy S and Motorola Defy.

All should be able to handle Sky player via the browser.

I trialled Sky Sports TV on my 3G. Not worth it for live games, that's why we have HD TVs/Pubs :) but its v.good for the news/highlights (back in the day before you needed to be a sky sports subscriber :( + I'm still gutted they stopped showing sky sports news from freeview, Grrr :(
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Yeah I was on my way home from a 7.45 kick off recently and the guy had the Utd v City (8pm ko) on his phone so I was leaning over and watching. I'll skip it anyway.

Agree about SSN as well but there are always streams :p

Do these phones 'update' like PCs and stuff now? So when a new OS comes out I can get that with new features?
 
Peerzy said:
Guess I'll have to play around with the two phones or find them on display in a shop and then pick the one I prefer.
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As I mentioned in the other thread, I do consider the Desire a superior phone in most departments largely because of the software.

The HTC Sense UI is the unsung hero of Android in all honesty, it brings its polish levels up to that of Apple and the iPhone and is more user friendly for someone new to phones.

I thought TouchWiz (on the Galaxy S), while ok, was just awful in comparison.
 
Just phoned up 3 and apparently my contract doesn't end till 7th Feb :(

A friend got a new phone 15 months into her contract by going through some shop (can't remember if it was Carphone Warehouse or Phones4u or similiar) and they buy you out of the rest of your contract.

Worth considering or should I just wait around till Feb?
 
Hmmm and then maybe go for that Galaxy S deal in the other thread, worked out at £12 a week or something which sounds really good.

I suppose its all swings and roundabouts if I have to pay £20*3 months to buy myself out though.
 
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