mobile phone options
I was talking with a friend the other day who mentioned that his 18 months are up! Finally he is free to choose a new mobile phone and it has to be a smartphone. He has broadband at home, broadband at work and a pay as you go 3G dongle, and only need intermittent mobile broadband. Nothing too pricey for him please, and he’d prefer a QWERTY keyboard over a touch screen, and GPS may come in useful for finding his press meetings in London.
He told me that he considered the iPhone 4 for about 30 seconds, but wondered why he should pay anything from £35 to £65 a month for the privilege of owning a “free” one?
For the last few months he’s been using a Microsoft smartphone from HTC. It certainly is not bad but he can’t see that he’ll be happy with a Microsoft phone over an 18 month contract.
He’s also owned several Nokias in the past and says that they are certainly good devices. But he accidentally broke the screen on his 6500, which is why he now uses the Microsoft device.
Blackberry would be a good choice for him, but he doesn’t like the keyboard! So that leaves Android and Android devices look like they are getting cheaper, which is good news for a cheapscape like him (love you really hun!)
There’s even a fair variety of free and relatively low cost handsets to choose from and a pretty substantial apps store with plenty of freebies.
Most operators offer a basic smartphone package for about £20, which includes a couple of hundred free minutes of talk time, text messaging and 500 megabytes or so of mobile broadband.
Okay so he won’t be streaming BBC iPlayer or hi-definition YouTube, but I think he could actually live with that. Stay tuned…
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