What mobile phone do you have?

[Lynnrose]

I have an LG Chocolate



I am now looking at buying a Nokia E71...the red one. I have some research to do as this one is £295 and there must be cheaper ones out there.
I only ever use Pay as You Go - Tesco sim - eg. top-up £10 and get £10 free credit thrown in.

[ken]

I have got a LG mobile Lynnrose, with a personalised number plate. Its a KC550.



I'm on contract with Virgin £8.30 a month. A 100 texts and 100 minutes a month, is plenty for me. Some of my mates are on Virgin as well and I've got an extra 100 minutes for Virgin users.

[mikkh]

I have a Motorola EM 330. It does lots of things I'm not even bothered about like bluetooth, camera, radio, internet access, MP3 playing and came with a 1 GB micro SD that I've half filled with music I hardly ever listen to. I've played the inbuilt games twice and even added some as a proof of concept more than a wish to have new games.

But here's the thing, it looks ok, was cheap to buy and performs it's real functions of being a phone with text messaging facilities perfectly well.

My daughter has just got her fifth phone in two years, plumping for the Orange 'Vegas' this time. The first one I bought was cheap and cheerful with few features, but then I splashed out on a much better one for Xmas. Each new one she has had, has been better features for a cheaper price. The attraction of the 'Vegas' is the touchscreen facilities for an affordable price.

I don't care if a phone gives me a massage and makes me tea, I will never pay anything like £300 for one.

....and what happened to Tesco's bribe of treble the credit when you top up £15 ?
They stopped doing that now?

[Lynnrose]

They still do that Mikkh, I have just topped up with the £15 offer

[jojo]

Had an LG Chocolate but it fell to bits.

Had a KC550 but the battery would only last about 6 hours.

Still using a Sony K550i which I've had for several years.

Like Mikkh, I like something that works. Send and receive calls and Texts.

I use Orange which cost about £15 a month. Rarely use the free calls or texts simply because they don't apply to overseas.

[ken]

My battery lasts me about a week Jojo, in fact it goes so long I tend to forget it needs charging. It charges very quick to, when I remember to put it on. I dont particularlly like the way the texting works, but I like the big font feature. I can almost read it without resorting to a microscope.

[movieman36]

I'm still a devoted Motorola V3 fan. I use it to make calls and the occasional text, that's it. It's made of aluminium, is almost indestructible (I know I have tested several of them, my only advice would be not to drop one in a 2 gallon pot of paint as that seems to prove just a little too much for them).

I am on my forth one now, the first one I got on a contract when they first came out, the rest I bought second hand.....still going (except the painted one). Still think it's one of the best looking phones about. I'm on the Virgin £10 sim deal that gives me 300 Mins and 300 texts a month.

Just got the missus onto the Virgin £12 a month deal, she got a new Samsung Toco light with the deal (150 mins + 150 texts + 100 virgin to virgin). Good phone, so good in fact my son has pinched it off her so she's back on her CRAZR.

MM

[elvisuk]

I use a Orange Sony Ericsson w200i £5.00 top up as and when £49.00 from Argos. I have been looking at the Orange Vegas in black that Mikkh say about seems an OK phone still looking but at under £50.00 maybe a get one, maybe i like cheap phones ;D

[John]

About a month ago i got a Samsung Tocco pay as you go (first touch screen Ive had) and I'm very happy with it, also the software work well in Windows 7 ;D

[Lynnrose]

Looks a really nice phone x

[Pete]

LG KS360 with Orange has own keyboard .

[ken]

I have just bought a MiTAC Mio A701 Smartphone. Perhaps not the best PDA, but it does all that I need. Using the stylus on the touchscreen is much easier than trying to push them tiny buttons on an ordinary mobile. Its got both Miomap v 3 and Copilot Online GPS and for £117.00, the price was right. Its about 6 months old, but looks brand new. It runs Windows Mobile 5, with all the MS bits and pieces.

I phoned Virgin yesterday, to change my package from phone and text to include unlimited data. The girl said it would take 3 days to upgrade my contract and I got a text this morning to say it would start on 20/08/09. Now I have visions of men with picks, shovels, jackhammers, diggers, bulldozers and cranes, working round the clock to upgrade my contract. I thought it could be done with a few taps on a computer keyboard, shows how wrong you can be.

[johnnyangel58]

I'm running a nokia 6230i which has and still is a brilliant phone for me I got the 512mb card so I've never run out of space with my music, & it is a great thing to stick on the windowledge in the bathroom when I'm having a soak playing all my music on the media player which is quite loud without being tinny & 'false' sounding. It's my 3rd nokia, I think I'll stick with them when I upgrade, though I've had this 2 years and its still going strong (touch wood)
Cheers,
John

[merchant42]

I have a Samsung Steel it also has a camera (never used cos i cant be bothered with it)
Internet Access (never used as I cant see the screen)

Have just about figured out how to send text
and had to get my brother to enter my contact phone numbers for me !!!........ lol

Think Im getting old !!!

[elvisuk]

Well it looks like i will have to buy a new phone as my Orange Sony Ericsson w200i battery is not charging i did not want to buy a new one just yet so may have to get a new battery for it

[Lynnrose]

Try Memory Bits for a battery, really good prices

[buzzy]

I have a Nokia E71

[elvisuk]

H! LynnRose,

Thanks for the link i was going to buy a new phone but after seeing that site i am going to buy a new battery just under £5.00 with free shipping and a flash drive 8GB just over 15,00 with free shipping'

just over £20.00 ;D

Thanks LynnRose

[Lynnrose]

Glad you got a couple of bargains.
I have bought from Memory Bits a few times. Can't fault them. Great prices and great service.

[ken]

Thanks Lynnrose I have added them to my favourites, their prices are great. I have bought stuff from Memory.com in Ireland, who are very good. Memory Bits are cheaper, but Memory. com sell things that Memory Bits dont.

[Lynnrose]

You're welcome KC x

[ken]

www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/sumsing-turbo-3000-cellphone-video/

[mikkh]

I love it - you should post it in the video section too

[ken]

Thanks Mikk, have just done that now.

[elvisuk]

I will have to get one Sumsing Turbo 3000 Cellphone where can i get one KC?

[lazysod]

I have this one but in pink of course ;D
Its a brilliant phone no more sore fingers when texting I love the touch screen it is really easy to use and the widgets are great, My friend got a much dearer touch screen phone but it is so complicated I like this it is simple to use and I use it as my Mp3 player all the time as well.
My last phone I had to charge daily which was a pain but this one is much better I am with 3 so my daughter friends who are on 3 can phone me free this wee phone also has built in skype so is saving me a fortune on calls I have a couple of friends abroad who phone me on skype but I am not on the PC as often as I would like to be so now they can phone me free on skype on this so I love it.

[Lynnrose]

I bought a new phone today...

Tesco Mobile Samsung Tocco lite Pink
Instore it cost £79.97
Spent £40 on other stuff, so phone then cost £59.97
Then used my clubcard vouchers whic can be doubled up until 5th September, so I just had to pay £9.97

I haven't set the phone up yet. I love my LG, but it has been playing up for awhile.

[ken]

If the pink one works as good as the black one, you have got a very good phone Lynnrose. Still for the price you cant go wrong, I paid nearly 90 quid when I bought one when they first came out.

[Lynnrose]

I have been playing with my new phone most of the evening....love it! So much more modern than my LG

[Ciara]

Tesco Mobile Lg Viewty Snap Gm360 Black, love this phone its great for txting