payg v contract

Catslovelycats

Bear with me please as I don;t have the techy language to explain myself very well.

When I bought my Blackberry on payg I didn.t realise that to get the email option I'd have to pay £5 a month extra.

If you've seen my other posts, I'm considering an iphone/samsung s2 (think I'll go for the latter) but I'll prob be buying an unlocked phone and then buying an Orange SIM card for it. Will that in any way limit what I can do on either phone (as opposed to having a contract)? Or if I buy a phone already locked to orange but still payg, does that limit the phone capacity in any way?

I'm a bit confused by references I've seen to data packages on SIMs cards and can't see anything on 'tnet to help me udnerstand!

I'm fairly sure some of you knowledgeable people will be able to work out what I'm asking!!
Thanks

grumbler

You don't need anything besides the mobile internet (data), but I think there are better providers for PAYG mobile data than Orange. Unless you have problems with O2 signal in your area check a popular http://giffgaff.com/index/offer

Catslovelycats

Orange is the only provider that I've tried that works round here. TMobile and Vodafone certainly don't work very well.

reclusive46

You could have a try with 3? They offer decent payg plans. £15 gets you unlimited data, 300 minutes and 300 texts

mikemaple

Before anyone else says it - Look at giffgaff - £10 for truely unlimited data, 250 minutes and unlimted text - if you still have your blackberry you can add email for that for £3.00

Catslovelycats

thanks everyone