Handset Only - options?

spugzbunny

HI!

I was thinking of buying my BF a new handset for his birthday. He has a sim only contract at the moment. Can anyone recommend anything? I was thinking of a blackberry but everywhere I have looked we are talking over £200! I don't mind an older model. Otherwise, what I basically want is something that he can check his emails on quickly and is smart!

Any suggestions of where to begin looking or what shops to try? I was thinking of heading down to cash converters - is that too dodgy?

Sorry for my total ignorance!

Bunny x

Jon_01

Make sure you get either a 'sim free' (will work on any network), unlocked (as sim free) or is on the same network that his sims on or it might not work.

If you get a Blackberry and want 'push email' (sent straight to the phone), he'd need to have the blackberry addon put on his phone acc to make it work, so that needs factoring in.

Play do phones on all network as well as sim free. You can buy any phone on payg on the same network as his sim and it'll work, you just don't use the sim that comes with it. . .

parallax_20

Blackberry 8520 is about £150, and a bit cheaper if you go via a cashback website. You can probably unlock it for about £10. O2 Blackberry smartphone simplicity is currently discounted by £7.50, equivalent of getting the BB data for free.

Other smartphone options. Sorry if most are Android, they were the ones I were researching before.

O2 - HTC smart £100
T-Mobile - Pulse/Pulse Mini £149/£99
Orange - Motorola Dext £149
Very.co.uk - Samsung Galaxy Portal - £229 (£30 off for new customers)
Nokia 5230/5530/5800 £99-£180.

The list could go on...all depends on how much you want to spend on your BF.

KingElvis

Have a look at Computer Exchange (just type CEX into Google), they have branches all over and you can even trade in old unwanted crap and just pay the difference :-)

I use them all the time to buy, sell and exchange.

They have iphones, Blackberry and all the big handsets in most branches.

Elvis

Toe-Jam

spugzbunny wrote: »

HI!

I was thinking of buying my BF a new handset for his birthday. He has a sim only contract at the moment. Can anyone recommend anything? I was thinking of a blackberry but everywhere I have looked we are talking over £200! I don't mind an older model. Otherwise, what I basically want is something that he can check his emails on quickly and is smart!

Any suggestions of where to begin looking or what shops to try? I was thinking of heading down to cash converters - is that too dodgy?

Sorry for my total ignorance!

Bunny x

You havn't said what network he's on. Carphonewarehouse do the BB 8520 for £150 ,its on tmobile or orange, but its actually unlocked so you can use it on any network.

If you have a contract with o2, you can call them up and ask them for a price to buy a handset outwright they usually give a good discount on the price of a handset for example a HTC desire is only £285.

Toe-Jam

parallax_20 wrote: »

Blackberry 8520 is about £150, and a bit cheaper if you go via a cashback website. You can probably unlock it for about £10. O2 Blackberry smartphone simplicity is currently discounted by £7.50, equivalent of getting the BB data for free.

Other smartphone options. Sorry if most are Android, they were the ones I were researching before.

O2 - HTC smart £100
T-Mobile - Pulse/Pulse Mini £149/£99
Orange - Motorola Dext £149
Very.co.uk - Samsung Galaxy Portal - £229 (£30 off for new customers)
Nokia 5230/5530/5800 £99-£180.

The list could go on...all depends on how much you want to spend on your BF.

The battery on the HTC smart is shockingly bad. I bought one last week, biggest waste of £100 i ever spent.

parallax_20

Toe-Jam wrote: »

The battery on the HTC smart is shockingly bad. I bought one last week, biggest waste of £100 i ever spent.

Sorry to hear that. I only mentioned it because of the price point. Although generally speaking smartphone battery life are bad. The only decent one I've come across was from my Nokia 5800 which lasted at least 4 days before it went on charge. Brilliant phone.

Toe-Jam

parallax_20 wrote: »

Sorry to hear that. I only mentioned it because of the price point. Although generally speaking smartphone battery life are bad. The only decent one I've come across was from my Nokia 5800 which lasted at least 4 days before it went on charge. Brilliant phone.

Yeah I Know thanks, but thanks to the other poster and Cex, I made £16 more than what i paid for it.:j