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Mark_In_Hampshire

OK I've been looking for a new mobile for a while and think I've narrowed it down to this one:

http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/-/1019/1264/-/13705829/HTC-Touch-2-Sim-Free-Unlocked-3-1-Megapixel-Mobile-Phone/Product.html?searchtype=genre

In terms of network I'm flexible but would probably want to avoid Vodafone as the signal is weak here.

The main purpose of the phone is as a "device" not really to make many calls - so iPlayer etc over our wireless network, applications and so on.

Most of the networks seem to be about 20ppm for calls now so I'd never actually use the mobile to make calls, I'd use our VOIP line at home; I'd only use the mobile if I absolutely had to and then for short calls.

I'd also want to be able to use the phone for data when out and about - more so than calls.

I was looking at Skype on 3 which has free Skype to Skype - we used to have an unlimited Skype account with an inbound landline number. I wondered whether I could use a Skype account with those features so people calling me call the Skype landline number and come through to my mobile, and I then get unlimited calls to landlines via Skype on the mobile. I think there must be some catch to that or everyone would do it..

Three seems to supply 150Mb of data access per top-up which would probably suffice.

o2 supply an unknown quantity of data access - it says "unlimited" but that word doesn't mean anything any more. It does say there's a fair usage policy but no more than that, so there's no way to see what the limit on the unlimited access is (you couldn't make this up!) and this seems bluntly dishonest which is putting me off them.

So for light usage of calls and some data access, who should I go with - if the tarriff is 20ppm I'd simply never use the phone for calls really, and the data access is important.

A contract is out of the question as all the providers seem to want direct debit payment these days which I don't allow, and 18 months subscriptions which just doesn't interest me.