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Which mobile is best? No clue....

Hi, I'm after a bit of advice from someone a bit more tech savvy than me...I have the technical know-how of an onion basically.

I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S5830, through Virgin Media as our TV, house phones, internet are with them, and pay £13 a month. I've had the leaflet through from them showing me which phones I can replace it with, and would quite like to get a new one as mine is getting a little bit slow.

I'm certainly not going to pay more than I'm paying now, which leaves me with a choice of a few phones, but as this was my first phone after coming out of the dark ages, I don't really know which phone is "best". Depending on whether I go for 250MB or 500MB of data I might even be able to get it for less than I pay now. Currently have 500MB but have no idea whether I need that much or not.

So choices are...

Nokia Lumia 630
Samsung Galaxy SIII mini
Sony Xperia M2

I would appreciate any thoughts as I have no clue! TIA
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  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,612 Forumite
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    are you bothered about camera quality , is it mainly for browsing the internet/emails, is it for music/medai playing

    need a bit more info
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  • Mostly I text, browse internet sometimes (but the one I have at the moment is so slow so I normally give up), few pictures...to be honest I don't think I use half of the functionality because I'm so clueless and have never sat down to learn how to use it properly!
    (I am aware how pathetic I sound :o)
  • woody2234
    woody2234 Posts: 414 Forumite
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    Looking at specs from gsmarena website

    Lumia 630 has 512mb ram and is a windows phone not android phone

    sony m2 has 1GB of ram and is quad core

    s3 mini has 1GB ram but dual core not quad core

    so sony m2 is the best phone
    Let them eat cake (Marie Antoinette 1765)
  • Thanks woody, didn't understand a word of that, other than "sony m2 is the best phone" !
  • Rusty!
    Rusty! Posts: 2,076 Forumite
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    M2

    Although I would advise buying a Moto G and going SIM only.
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    As above really a good solution .
  • easylife73
    easylife73 Posts: 332 Forumite
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    Thanks all, I think I might go with the M2 as recommended, although that will mean dropping to 250GB. Will that be enough?
  • d123
    d123 Posts: 8,748 Forumite
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    easylife73 wrote: »
    Thanks all, I think I might go with the M2 as recommended, although that will mean dropping to [STRIKE]250GB[/STRIKE] 250MB. Will that be enough?

    Unless your use is extremely minimal, probably not.

    I'm sure you actually mean MB rather than GB?;)
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  • ZhugeEX
    ZhugeEX Posts: 1,163 Forumite
    easylife73 wrote: »
    Thanks all, I think I might go with the M2 as recommended, although that will mean dropping to 250GB. Will that be enough?

    Nope.... I'd recommend a minimum of 500mb with a phone like that.
  • Collabora
    Collabora Posts: 1,360 Forumite
    Also Sony mobiles drain their batteries quick
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