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Advice on a new phone

maureen59
maureen59 Posts: 246 Forumite
I am due an upgrade with vodaphone. I am presently on 600 minutes (and use them). Are there any good phones and deals anyone knows about. I am not very mobile phone savvy, I don't use all the features normally. I also pay £35 month.

I would appreciate any advice please.

Thanks
Maureen

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  • when you ring up go through to the disconnections people and tell them you're giving them a month's notice that you're leaving. they'll ask why and you can feed them some story about getting a better contract elsewhere.

    they'll generally match or beat it in order to keep you with them.

    be cheeky and negotiate! :)
  • grumbler
    grumbler Posts: 58,629 Forumite
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    be cheeky and negotiate! :)
    ...and demand everything in writing from Vodafone before agreeing to anything.
  • Stuart_W
    Stuart_W Posts: 1,812 Forumite
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    maureen59 wrote: »
    I am due an upgrade with vodaphone. I am presently on 600 minutes (and use them). Are there any good phones and deals anyone knows about. I am not very mobile phone savvy, I don't use all the features normally. I also pay £35 month.

    I would appreciate any advice please.

    Thanks

    If you don't use many phone features, and don't consider yourself very "mobile savvy", you probably don't need to be paying £35 a month. Haggle hard.

    A SIM card with 750 minutes and unlimited texts, for example, with 500MB of data use thrown in, is available for £12 a month.

    What are you looking at paying? What features do you want?
  • Guys_Dad
    Guys_Dad Posts: 11,025 Forumite
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    Stuart_W wrote: »
    If you don't use many phone features, and don't consider yourself very "mobile savvy", you probably don't need to be paying £35 a month. Haggle hard.

    A SIM card with 750 minutes and unlimited texts, for example, with 500MB of data use thrown in, is available for £12 a month.

    What are you looking at paying? What features do you want?


    Go for that or similar from Vodafone & go into Carphonewarehouse and buy a basic handset for under £50.00 You will be in profit within 3 months!

    You would need to tell Voda that you wanted to convert to sim-only at the end of your contract to keep your number.
  • maureen59
    maureen59 Posts: 246 Forumite
    I just want a phone without GPS, not too bothered about a camera really, would like to store some of my music and pix. Thats it realy, I don't need anything too techie lol.
    thanks
    Maureen
    Maureen
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