due upgrade in june so help deciding what to do please

ianbar0

hello, i am due my upgrade in june. i have been with t-mobile for over 10 years (due to our village not getting a signal on any other network). i have a htc touch 2 and pay £31 a month for a flext tariff. i have recently got a macbook so obviously now feel the need for an iphone only problem being the price and the fact i dont really use all the texts and certainly not the mins that i get now.we do have broadband now at home(couldnt get it at first) so now using wi-fi is not a big problem. i have thought htc desire or samsung galaxy s but not sure at all. any help or thoughts are welcome , thank you.

grumbler

ianbar0 wrote: »

any help or thoughts are welcome ,

Do you really need it? Was it worth it?

ianbar0

i have thought about going payg, could go from 30 to £10 a month and actually going payg is nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

jenniewb

Am confused as to why you "obviously now feel the need for an iphone". If you don't use all your minutes and texts and are happy with your net access, why not save some money and downgrade? use the savings to put towards an I-Touch (when the next one comes out) instead of paying over the odds for an I-Phone (£35 a month over 2 years is £840. I'm sure you could downgrade and get an I-touch for that and have change for itunes!).

What sort of needs do you have? just talk and text or are you looking for additional extras?

ianbar0

i dont really need any minuites and really texts are quite minimal lol dont really need one do i ...i mean a phone at all! but i have kind of bought into this whole "apple" thing now! i have the current i-touch which is fab! just the lack of general internet access is a downer on it hense the i-phone. i have however seen a contract for £15 for a htc wildfire i currently have a htc touch 2. i think this is a step up and andriod which s good and halves my contract!

will-he-payitoff

Having seen this deal http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/ Id wait while june, galaxy s 2 coming out then so should be some good deals on galaxy s which is as good as i phone 4 but half price

ianbar0

oh right thats good to know, just had a look at galaxy s in town and the desire hd....there huge! im waiting till june anyway thats why im due i think, would just like to have a good idea what i am doing before hand.

PNPSUKNET

iphone 5 is out in june/july time... apple keep changing the models as bad as vw change golfs

diamonds

Wait till June as 3 months is a long time in technology land - Orange & T-Mobile will have launched FREE 3G roaming on each others networks (as now but only 2G) - this will help you play Orange plans & T-Mobile plans off each other calling retentions

triple_choc_chip

I phoned T mobile this week to change to payg. I was paying £15 a month for 100 mins and 100 texts but my bills were double cos they charge for accessing voicemail and for texts to Egypt (daily cos OH is there).

By the end of the conversation, they had offered me:
1) same mins and text
2) One hour talk time per month to Egypt - Yea! I'd rather talk than text! (this alone is worth £60 to me compared to my landline - although mostly I skype but this not possible during recent protests)
3) Internet
4) Galaxy Apollo android handset

For...£5 a month. :T

So give them a try and see what they offer you. x

grumbler

triple_choc_chip wrote: »

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2) One hour talk time per month to Egypt - Yea! I'd rather talk than text! (this alone is worth £60 to me compared to my landline - although mostly I skype but this not possible during recent protests)

4.08-5.11p/min from a landline to a landline is easily available (11.5p connection).
4.08*60=£3ish, far less than £60