When you have chosen your network provider it can be a royal pain in the proverbial sifting through all the handsets available. Everywhere you look there is media telling you which phone to choose. tv commercials, billboards, radio ads, magazine adverts. Then you have your mates telling you why their phones are the best and getting personally offended when you inevitably choose something different.
The main thing is to decide what you want the most from your contract phones. This means (and this is very important) what you want your mobile phone for the most. Secondary is what you would LIKE it to do for you.
Here is my priority list of expectations from my mobile phone handset/contract:
1. Make and receive calls (obviously!)
2. Send and receive texts/MMS
3. Access the WWW…ok I’ll settle for free web search
4. Take some stunning photos (on drunken nights out which can be posted to Flikr with the main aim of embarrasing your mates)
5. Not find extra charges on my bill for doing all of the above
6. Not call people by accident when I’m sat watching football (swearing and singing football songs) with my mates
7. Not look like a brick
8. Not look lik a credit card
9. Not need to be re-charged after a half hour facebook browsing session
What I desire from my mobile phone is to watch YouTube videos. But that said I wouldn’t sacrifice my essentials to be able to do those and wouldn’t pay the earth for them either. I have a computer at home and to be honest watching catch up TV on my phone when I’m at the pub with friends wouldn’t go down too well.
Looking around there are a number of decent handsets from the main providers and it’s these I prefer to stick too simply because they tend to have the widest choice and their name means they are most likely to provide the best service and have the best customer care (as difficult as that may be to imagine!). My top preferred phone network and handset suppliers are:
3 mobile – Get the latest 3G mobiles, the best in mobile content and services such as mobile TV, music downloads and mobile Internet, and internet connection with Mobile Broadband.
Nokia – Wide range of mobile phone devices and contract deals and of course the complete range of Nokia phones the second they come onto the market.
