What's your mobile phone tariff?

so dont take my advice.

I haven't decided which tariff yet but I get 50% off because I have a mate who works in the call centre influential friends there so I could get £180 of credit every month for £13.13 on FlexT 35 (though I may lose the introductory discount to get the other one, in which case it would be £17.50

and FREE IPOD which is perfect cos i broke my old one a couple months ago and wanted one since

do i just phone up tmobile (who i'm currently with) and ask for a PAC code? do i need to cancel my contract at the same time (it's been like 3 years so it's deffo expired) and then i phone up dialaphone for my phone?

i have only done this once, 3 years ago, and i'm scared that i'll get it wrong... hold my hand please!

Those were my words to my mate and he's convinced me it's everything T-Mob say it is. He can't understand why the whole country isn't on it.

http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/offer/35FLEXT25/

so i phoned up TMobile re: my current phone to get a PAC code. after they failed to give me a competitive offer, they just offered this current line to me free for the next 12 months! lolz? it's free contract + pay as you go.

I feel like it must be a con somewhere.

this is mental!

"This offer is only valid for connections completed by 31st March 2006. "

how long do connects take to complete??

£50 a month is ok considering i did have 120£ a month phone bills.
now at least everything is covered, so i dont go over that.

xpost

(and i can't use my mobile before 6pm now! lol)

gonna get my phone on saturday. scary. i hope i haven't been conned arrrgh arrrgh arrrgh

I have Orange PAYG; it took me nearly three years to get through one £50 top-up, so reluctant am I to call people (this was in the days of the £19.95 text saver - five free texts a day for a year). I'm probably spending about £8/month on it thesedays.

So yeah, I went with the flext-30 plan, which is 450 minutes to any network anytime or 900 texts or 450 MMS or any combination of blah blah, for £22 a month, but might well upgrade to what Ken and Ed are on (twice that for only £26 a month, discounted from £35) - have checked and I don't lose 25% discount for moving tariff.

The only thing I'm not sure about is whether WAP sessions can be part of this allowance. I don't think they can, but WAP schmap.

Flext forever. Bye bye Orange.

I hate phone shopping. Too many options.

The deal does seem rather good.

Porkpie - the d750i is the same as the k750i apart from the colour according to this

*whh-tshhhhhh*

for those that have them, how are the ericssons for listening to mp3s? the grubby ipod deal is extremely tempting but i. razrs r crap, ii. i'd loooove a hot cameraphone, iii. i'd suspect a 512mb (or even 1gb if i get the... bigger... stick) limit will keep me on my more useful listener's toes than wallowing in 30gb of old rubbish

I only rang up to change my address, girl goes "I've given you a free month of photo messages", "OK whatever" I say.

Next month - I'm charged for 2 bundles of photo messages at a cost of about a fiver! And I can't even send photo messages from my phone! Cunts.

shit

what are t mobile like?

my only concerns are:

- coverage
- customer services (orange r shite)
- brand! i only went with orange cos they have the best identity. im loath to lose that LOL

oh, and for some reason they are only 5 cents from you. not kidding.

but they are all incredibly ugly, all have horrible poky little buttons, and as alluded to above, i am very sceptical about battery life with respect to features. i am most tempted by the nokia 6021, or the sony 705/800 (the latter has a 3mp camera) but am worried about battery life. seeing as i went to some lengths to get my current handset, the nokia 1100, specially for its simplicity and lack of features, having GPRS and whatnot isnt a concern of mine. but i would like to store more than 20 texts (!). ibve always been loath to leave the nokia menu logic, which on the older text/b&w based menu systems was def. the best, but seeing as everything has moved away from that im not sure what difference between manufacturers there is in terms of menu navigation.

any tyhoughts?

I've got through almost immediately when I call them (after the 4 stage option pressing bit). They keep saying "Can I call you Nicholas", though, which is a bit annoying.

All these people signing up to flext should cite us as referring friends - we'd get £20 a pop.

this thread has made me get my shit together and find out what new handsets i can get for free (old one held together with sellotape).

i can't decide if i should get the ericsson one, or go with another nokia. i've nearly always had nokia phones, one siemens which was pretty decent and almost never pissed me off except when it would unlock itself in my bag and fuck itself up so i needed to get a puk number and god knows what else, and a motorola which was a STINKING PILE OF SHIT

the nokia 5140 calls itself "sports-optimized" which sort of puts me off. otoh i could do with a tough phone because i spend so much time dropping it in beer, but then the nokia i've currently got was coping ok with all that until the incident necessitating the sellotape. it's got a camera and video recorder and player and a radio but no mp3. omg i have just noticed this bit:
Phone Features

* Standby light to locate the phone
* Timed profiles (including 2 My Styles)
* Automatic key guard
* Flashlight
* Compass
* Thermometer
* Alarm clock
* Stopwatch
* Countdown timer
* Currency converter
* Calculator

thermometer! omg! compass! omg!

the nokia 6021 does not have a thermometer. it has a big display which i don't really need, and bluetooth.

the motorola l7 sliverphone is out because the other motorola phone was SUCH A STINKING PILE OF SHIT

the nec 343i seems a bit nothingy?

the samsung e720 comes with a free bluetooth printer and has an mp3 player

the samsung s400i is an "imode phone" which the lady on the other end of the phone said means it's like broadband and you can get ebay on it. free bluetooth headset

xpost seriously? i wasn't really being bothered about bluetooth either way..

do they deliver the pizzas quicker if you WAP them rather than call them?

i felt like i finally arrived the 21st century when i ordered a pizza from dominos over the web the other day. good times.

ack that's fine, the camera on my current one - possibly 6610i? - has shit camera, it takes pretty photos of sunsets but makes everything else look rubbish.

Yes. Actually, it's better than Nokia in that regard, as it doesn't make you go back to the beginning of the word and start again. You just take over where the predictive text gave up on you and then it's added to the dictionary.

Maybe the novelty of new phone will wear off soon and I'll get back to the between-£5-and-£10 usage I was at before.

(obviously, anyone who needs my new number/wants to give me their number since I won't have it any more, please email me)

I can't with mine, unfortunately, as my phone was registered by a friend years ago, who says he never had a PIN and has now moved back to Canada so they can't really send him a new one in the post. Anyway, the upshot is that Orange basically think I stole the phone so I'm not getting a PAC code off them.

fuckin phones man

haha they just called me just now! (the once-every-three-months ritual that happens to my old number). Lolz, to talk about upgrade options. I just told them I'm not on orange and they apologised and hung up, next time I might ask them what i can get first.

Her: "We note from our records that your phone could be due to be upgraded"
Me: "Blimey, I only bought it last week"
Her: "how much do you spend on calls a month"
Me: "I don't know, I've only had it a week"
Her: "Would you be interested in saving money by upgrading"
Me: "I don't know, I've only had it a week so I've no idea what I could save, since I don't know how much it'll cost me each month" (it's a PAYG)
Her: "Well, perhaps you could tell me how much you intend to spend each month"
Me: "What part of "I don't know, I've only just bought the thing and I haven't even topped it up yet" do you not understand?"
Her: "Would you be interested..."
Me: "Can you call me back when I've, you know, used my phone?"
Her: "Certainly. Would you be..."
*Me hangs up*

I had to change my number to get the free handset but it's a minor inconvenience considering I now have 1800 texts per month in the bank to tell everyone my new one.

I don't think I like the w800 headphones.

haha yeah i totally mass-txted everyone in my new address book with my new number knowing that it'd be merely several drops in the ocean of free texts

Any other good deals on the horizon? i've looked at the deal-a-phone page and there appear to be several amazing deals going (but none with the phone i want).

what phone do you want?

You're not wrong there, the offers don't seem to be nearly as good.

just got called by a friendly, patient nokia employee who convinced me over the course of an hour's PR-inflected conversation to change from pay as you go to a £24-a-month Three contract, with 700 minutes OR texts, AND a free new Nokia 6120 phone, all on direct debit.

am i a mug for not hanging up? or am i getting with the times and preparing for full-time employment correctly?

Complete mug; I doubt the person on the end of the line had anything to do with Nokia. How long is the contract, have you been locked in for all eternity?

18 months before you can escape without paying a cancellation fee.

She knew her stuff and from the ambient noise was obviously in a call centre (plus had a disarming Welsh accent)...fairly sure I haven't been swindled. I even raised the question of the call's authenticity and she sorta sounded embarrassed.