What's your mobile phone tariff?

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I don't know what's reasonable these days. So how about a survey?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

o2 online, £20 a month, 500 free mins off-peak to any uk landline/o2 mobile, 50 free mins off peak to non-o2 uk mobiles, 20 free mins peak time to any uk landline/mobile, 500 free texts, 500 free minutes wap (which i have had for over THREE YEARS and it has NEVER WORKED). usually works out at about £23/4 a month, the £3/4 coming from texts abroad to my mum and friends.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I have an O2 "Pay And Go Wild" - £10 a month gets me 50 minutes talk time (which I never use up) and 50 texts (which I usually do). I find it sufficient for my phone-hating lifestyle. Though I could do with getting one of those "1000 texts" bolt-on things.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:26 (twenty years ago)

O2. I get 250 mins a month included plus 50 texts and another 50 texts as a 'bolt on'. This costs me about £38 or something. It's a complete waste, because since I got a computer I just e-mail people instead of phoning. I've got about 700 minutes unused. I called O2 and asked about moving to a lower tariff and they said my unused minutes wouldn't roll over - I'd have to use them all up by the end of the month. This seemed such a great injustice that I stayed on the higher tariff. That'll teach them.

― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Orange "You are a Mug" tariff. 55 pound a month, 500 free minutes, 1000 (!!) free texts. i cant change it for a year, nor can i upgrade my phone. then i split up with the girl i was sending 5-10 texts a day to.

so dont take my advice.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm switching to FlexT - which gives you a monthly credit which you can move between talk/txt/pictures.

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

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm a pay-as-you-go Virgin, baby.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Ambrose, with a free amount of texts that big Orange should include a girlfriend free of charge.

― Gerard (Gerard), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

I am thinking about getting a Crackberry since Ed seems to have got such a good deal on his.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap ambrose! Surely the fee for breaking your contract could be worth it if you multiplied out the approx 30 pound a month you're paying for owt?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

onimo FLEXT was exactly the reason why i asked this thread! i wanted to know whether it's a rip off or not or too good to be true. like. dial a phone are offering a FREE VIDEO IPOD with it at the moment and i want it. the tariff seems to work out to like 450 mins and 900 texts (interchangable) which seems ideal to me!

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

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Vodafone: £30? a month, 200 minutes and unlimited free texts for life. But you have to be a student to get the unlimited texts

― stet (stet), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

O2, costs about £17 a month, and I get a certain amount of free texts and talktime a month - I have no idea how much is free, but I know I don't ever reach my limit and I do use the phone all the time.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

okay, guys. so what do i do?

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!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

T Mobile: currently 200 free minutes per month for £26. 18 month contract, but the first 6 months were £13 per with 200 minutes and 200 texts. Free Samsung D500. I've had the contract a year, so I'm beginning to think about better offers.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

too good to be true

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.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

can someone please tell me if you can see a catch before i DO THIS.

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

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Also, they gave me the phone with no means to connect it to my computer, so photos have to be emailed and I can't get any of my music on the MP3 player. That part is really annoying.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I have to cancel my current contract to get a decent free phone when I switch to flext - which makes no sense and is a total pain in the arse because it'll mean changing my number which I've had since my first ever mobile.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I took one look at the asterisk next to the iPod and thought "for the first 25 customers only, sucker" but the offer appears to be legit. Good lord.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I can't see any catch Ken, other than that £5.99 per month seems excessive for insurance.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

but cancellable any time!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

omg omg omg omg new ipod omg

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

okay wtf!

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.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

like, apparently i pay £0 per month, but i get 300 minutes in the evenings. and i can't run up a bill even if i want to.

this is mental!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

let us know how it goes

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

i will (after 6pm)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

it was nice that they offered me £5 a month less for this particular contract at the start, then when refused suddenly it was £15.25 a month less. then it was £16.25 less.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

oh wait! this dialaphone thing

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

how long do connects take to complete??

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

xxxxxpost

£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.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Dial a dial a phone and ask.

xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to i think. (not just yet though cos i'm at the office)

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

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I got my first phone from dial-a-phone. Ordered it one day, delivered and in use the next. But call and check with them, just in case.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

shit guys. i've done it now

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

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

also: haha i hope i get through the credit rating check........

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

i did! and now i have a new phone!! (still charging it.) yayyyyy hello moto. hope i will actually get the ipod next month as opposed to "oops sorree you haven't done section a1839 of the contract no ipod for youuu sorrree" arrgh.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:08 (twenty years ago)

Congrats to Ken C.

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.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:33 (twenty years ago)

flext direct from T-Mobile website £26 for 900 minutes or 1800 texts or any combination equivalent to the above (1 minute =2 texts), plus £10 for blackberry and web, all I can eat.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

I have just signed up for T-Mobile's Flext too, but like Ed, went direct from their website rather than dial-a-phone or anyone. It makes it 25% cheaper (for life) than going via a reseller, plus you get a really good choice of handsets, rather than crappy old RAZR. I could have had a Blackberry and what have you but went for the Sony Ericsson d750i, which has a decent camera (2 megapixel, decent optics, autofocus - some of the photos people have up from in on Flickr are amazing for a cameraphone), mp3 player, memory stick expandable to 1GB etc.

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.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and it comes with a USB lead that lets me transfer MP3s and photos to and from the memory stick easily. OS X just sees it as another drive. Easy peasy.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:06 (twenty years ago)

WAP is not included but T-mobile have a £7.50 a month unlimited data plan.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh, well fuck that.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking of going with the 750i too, though the w800 comes with a 512MB stick as standard but only has a 1 megapixel camera.

I hate phone shopping. Too many options.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

I've done that deal too - flext 35 for 26 quid and a d750i (which is not quite as nice as the k7501 that a colleague has but as near as dammit)

The deal does seem rather good.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Onimo - I think I've been an idiot in not getting the w800, actually.
This says it does have a 2MB camera. Oh well, the memory stick isn't v.expensive.

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

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

bloody hell ambrose, i cd have 5 gfs on the go and still not spend 50 squid phoning em

~~*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

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'd rather be using my iPod if I have it with me, but the quality seems not bad at all and probably only hampered by the headphones (think you can buy third-party adapters to make normal 3.5 jacks ones usable) and it's not too fiddly to use (has a dedicated play/pause button on the side). But I haven't used it enough yet to really spot any annoying things.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

the back is completely different, instead of the (slightly cheapo plasticky) rotating lens cover - the K has a sliding, more substantial feel to it that makes it seem even more like a digital camera.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah and how's the battery? if it's gonna be multitasking and all...

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

got my new 750 on Friday, it's been in spain all weekend, sending texts, making a few calls, being messed around with a lot as you do with a new phone..... and there's still 3/4 battery left. I'm pretty impressed.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 17 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Bluetooth is urgent and key.

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I am loving my blackberry, no camera, d50 travels most places with me, but great screen, emails and web, bluetooth, wifi. I ordered a pizza over the web from the thameslink back from the airport yesterday and the delivery driver was on the doorstep when I arrived.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

so you can get lost up a cliff! and be rescued!

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

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Bluetooth is good for headset (if you are driving, you look ridiculous on the street with one), synching with the computer (don't even try it on a PC though), and I have an external keyboard for doing long emails/reports on when I don't carry a laptop.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I ordered a pizza over the web from the thameslink back from the airport yesterday and the delivery driver was on the doorstep when I arrived.

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

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

no but you can look at the menu and decide what you want and not have some imbecile mistype your card details into the machine. Also not WAP, WEB.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

ooh yes that is true actually with the credit card thing i suppose (it'd be a bit crap to speak out your credit card details on a train).

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

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

I seem to remember Dominos being one of the first companies to launch on Telewest's digital interactive TV services when I had that 4 or 5 years ago. Trying to order a pizza with a remote control - funny in theory, horrendous in practice.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

k i am going for this ericsson one.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

The camera on the z520i is just a 0.3 megapixel VGA thing, so don't expect too much from it.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

what exactly does it synch up with on a computer anyway? i'm not sure i want it to.

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.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

can you teach ericssons new words in your predictive text? i think a phone that makes me spell out swearwords will not be much use.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

synching to the computer is useful for backing up phone numbers and editing them and that. I also sync my diary etc.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

can you teach ericssons new words in your predictive text?

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.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

ah, right. my diary is made of paper and my computer doesn't have any phone numbers in. hurrah!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

The best are the MMORPGS with a "/pizza" command

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I am k-upset about this FlexT thing as I just bought a new phone and now I want something this cheap and I can't be arsed changing my number for the second time in a month. I just bought a cheap Virgin PAYG phone as I never really use my phone that much, just to find out where people are if I'm going out, to text random stupidness to people during the football, and to let people call me. Except now I have a proper phone that actually works, I want to use it more. And I do. And I've spent about £20 already this month and I bet I haven't made near as many texts and calls as I could have done had I not been so impatient and bought the cheapest emergency phone I could when I lost my old one.

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)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

You can get a PAC code off Virgin, even for a PAYG phone. They'll probably charge you something, but it will mean you can move your number to another operator.

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.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

haha roxy i just tried to text you but because i'm on this free thing now it told me it couldn't due to "insufficient funds"

fuckin phones man

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

orange's customer services are fantastic - too good sometimes actually, 3 years after i disconnect with them they still call me every six months or so to tell me i'm due an upgrade! Thanks guys!
-- ken c (pykachu10...), March 27th, 2006 3:09 PM. (ken c) (later) (link)

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.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

it's three months i think, rather than six

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

About a week and a half after I bought my new phone, I got a call from Virgin asking me if I wanted to upgrade my phone.

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*

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Are you sure it was actually Virgin? Usually those kind of pushy coldcallers are resellers who are supposed to make it clear that they are not themselves the carrier.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

She said she was from Virgin. I'm too trusting. Also, stupid, since I could have got a swank(ier) new phone. I'm still thinking about this FlexT thing, only about 10 people have my new phone number anyway (I have no friends, obviously)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I pay $45/month for 1000 minutes, free nights and weekends. With taxes and extra ~~chiselling~~ fees etc. it works out to $60.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

that's a pretty bad deal tracer

― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was good! i forgot to mention that i also get mobile internet ("t-zones") and like 100 texts a month in the deal, does that make it better?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Not really, I have Tmobile and get a better deal

― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I only have 600 daytime minutes, which I never use close to.

― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

WHO IS THE BAD DEAL HAVER NOW. I occasionally go over my 1000 minutes. I don't have a land line and I use the phone for work.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I am a vampyre.

― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I finally sorted a flext35 contract and now have a shiny new Sony Ericsson w800i.

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.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Mobile express are now offering a choice between a 30GB iPod Video *or* a Sony PSP Giga Pack with a flext35 deal, though the cashback options don't look as good as the dial-a-phone one.

I don't think I like the w800 headphones.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Looking for phone advice:
I've had a Sony Ericsson K700i for about 15 months and might upgrade soon. I've had Ericssons before and a Nokia, and on the whole I think the features on the Ericssons are better (like teaching your predictive text handy words like 'fuck' and 'Nistelrooy') but the phones themselves are really unreliable - the joystick thing gets gradually worse and worse until it stops working, the screen often freezes for five seconds while you keep pressing buttons and then suddenly wakes up and leaps through about twenty commands, and the keypad lock (which should come on automatically after a few seconds) often doesn't bother to turn on. Has anyone got a new(er) Sony Ericsson phone, and does it still have these problems?

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

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

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

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

switching to PAYG was one of my better decisions, if far too late. still with Vodafone. no frills (or at least none i am taking advantage of).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Ken, you still have my old number, and I don't have your number at all now, obviously. The passing of your old phone number is the end of an era - isn't it googleable, you'd handed it out so many times on message boards?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

OK so i want this flexT business but the above deals have become inoperable - to get the flexT 35 i have to pay about 12 quid more than u lucky gits.

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).

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Cheaper FlexT deals are only available direct from T-Mobile via the web.

what phone do you want?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

something ericsson-ish. i have looked at t-mobile's site but the deals aren't even in the same ballpark as wot alba and porkpie were talkin about before.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

You want a blackberry, that's what you want.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

is that a threat?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

It can be.

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

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

D750i on flexT 25 looks OK.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Does anybody buy insurance for their phones?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

the lovely Emma B has hit upgrade time which apparently means "constant nagging from phone company" and is considering a blackberry. is there anything that does what blackberry does, but better, or whatever? (i.e. sidekick, with built-in possibility of being glamorously hacked?)

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 23 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

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?

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

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?

― Ed, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

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.

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

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